…th Community Partners to Implement and Evaluate the Chicago Park District’s 100% Healthier Snack Vending Initiative. Preventing Chronic Disease, 2014;11:140141. Nader PR, Huang TT, Gahagan S, Kumanyika S, Hammond RA, Christoffel KK. Next steps in obesity prevention: altering early life systems to support healthy parents, infants, and toddlers. Child Obes. 2012;8(3):195-204. Odoms-Young A, Zenk S, Mason M. Measuring food availability and access in…
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…pportive policies and referral processes in health care settings, schools, and communities that promote breastfeeding The event featured 24 presenters representing an array of perspectives, including hospitals and clinics, research and education, home health, organizations involved in the school system, community organizations, and youth leaders. Topics addressed included: Successful practices to support young people and promote successful breastf…
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…rition curricula for a wide age-range of students. Most curricula are free for download online and compliant with Healthy CPS criteria. Common Bytes Nutrition: Google Classroom Nutrition: Lessons Big & Green Food & Garden lesson plans CATCH Curriculum-“Restart Smart” There is a fee for this K-8 virtual curriculum but discounts are available FDA “Science and Our Food Supply” Food safety…
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…cago Children (CLOCC) is providing a database of resources to support educators and families working towards Healthy CPS. We understand that there is an overwhelming amount of information available to educators, so we have carefully chosen a select number of tools to highlight in each area. To learn more about CLOCC’s work with CPS, please visit our Schools webpage and feel free to contact us if you have any questions: info@CLOCC.net. In this sect…
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…endations. Kids and parents alike couldn’t resist touching the food models and comparing the different examples of servings of fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy. The kids especially loved (and even tried to taste) the orange, cheese, and strawberry models. The milk models won over even the museum staff, who expressed genuine shock at the amount of fat found in whole milk compared to skim. My interaction with parents led to lots of interesting…
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…expensive through the repealed Cook County sweetened beverage tax; Efforts to pass a similar tax at the state level ultimately died as well. While we have explored key deterrents to healthy behaviors such as violence and threats to personal safety, and emotional health challenges like depression and anxiety, we have yet to lay out a clear direction as a consortium for addressing these and other factors that sometimes feel like they’re taking us ou…
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…ted States, 2011–2014. NCHS data brief, no 219. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2015. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db219.pdf Ogden CL, Carroll MD, Kit BK, Flegal KM. Prevalence of Childhood and Adult Obesity in the United States, 2011-2012. JAMA. 2014;311(8):806-814. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.732. Available at: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1832542. National Health and Nutrition Exa…
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…BPNC Health Promoters were trained to implement education with sensitivity to community culture. Additionally, a local chef provided a cooking demonstration that included a culturally-competent, healthy preparation of a Thanksgiving turkey. BPNC’s grocery store challenge helped introduce the MyPlate Guidelines The first round of nutrition education trainings, funded by CLOCC, introduced the MyPlate guidelines. One of the tactics included in…
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…ents sought to measure the safety and accessibility of routes to the parks for community residents. CLOCC staff teamed up with three anchor organizations, and engaged nine organizations in total, to conduct the assessments. CLOCC staff also worked as technical assistance providers for the Healthy Chicago 2.0 seed grant projects that focused on increasing walkability in neighborhoods working on equitable transit-oriented development through the Ele…
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…support of a policy, please send, at a minimum, an abstract of the policy and answers to the following questions: How does this policy relate to CLOCC’s 5-4-3-2-1 Go!® message and facilitate the behaviors recommended in the message? How does this policy lend itself to discussion of the social ecological model related to childhood obesity prevention? Is this policy evidence-based? If so, please describe the evidence that such a policy will have in…
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