…ook to the future, I would also like to reflect on our Consortium’s recent accomplishments. I draw strength and inspiration from the progress that we have made together and I hope you will as well. As always, CLOCC staff is humbled and proud of all we have done together in the past 15 years. Here are just a few of the things we accomplished together in 2017: CLOCC launched the Serve Chicago Kids Better campaign to address the lack of healthy optio…
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…n optimal level of support for breastfeeding mothers and babies. Status is awarded to hospitals that integrate the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding into their standard of care in order to provide new mothers the information and support needed to initiate and sustain breastfeeding habits with their newborns. Presence Saint Joseph now stands alongside Advocate Trinity Hospital, which received designation…
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…limited access to fresh fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods, while availability of calorie-dense and nutrient-poor foods and beverages are plentiful. Although practitioners have implemented community-level interventions and incentive programs for retailers to ensure produce and other healthful foods are available in all neighborhoods, there’s still much work to be done. 23.5 million Americans do not have access to a grocery store within 1…
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Adam Becker by Adam Becker, PhD, MPH, Executive Director Partners and friends, April marks the beginning of the second quarter of our 10th anniversary year! This quarter, we are focusing on two of the hallmarks of the consortium’s operations – our community work and partnerships as well as public education in community settings. Community partners are really what make CLOCC a consortium. When we started ten years ago, community organizatio…
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Adam Becker by Adam Becker, PhD, MPH, Executive Director Welcome to the fourth and final quarter of our 10th anniversary year! I hope you have found this year to be an exciting review of our decade of the accomplishments we have achieved together and an interesting examination of the things that make CLOCC tick. This quarter, we are looking toward the future of childhood obesity prevention in Chicago and beyond. In CLOCC’s early days, under the…
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…Built Environment, Schools, Early Childhood, Business Sector and Industry Practices, and Health Promotion and Public Education. It is meant to be a guide for childhood obesity prevention work in Chicago with the idea that all of our collective work as a consortium will help to address these goals. We invite your organization to participate in a short survey on your work from January 1 through June 30, 2015, related to the goals, objectives, and s…
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…er. 2010;55(1):129-133. Liem RI, Gilgour B, Pelligra SA, Mason M, Thompson AA. The impact of thalassemia on Southeast Asian and Asian Indian families in the United States: a qualitative study. Ethn Dis. 2011;21(3):361-369. Longjohn M, Sheon AR, Card-Higginson P, Nader P, Mason M. Learning from state surveillance of childhood obesity. Health Aff. 2010;29(3):463-472. Mason M, Christoffel KK, Sinacore J. Reliability and validity of the injury prevent…
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…at I have worked with is Jordan Elementary Community School. Here are some examples of projects we have done together. In May 2010, Jordan School completed a Healthy School Environment Assessment facilitated by CLOCC staff. Some of the participants included school administration, teachers, parents, the school’s nurse, lunch room managers, and a few upper grade students. After the results of the assessment were shared with the group, it was decided…
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Adam Becker by Adam Becker, PhD, MPH, Executive Director Welcome to the third quarter of our 10th anniversary year! This quarter, we are focusing on one of the things that makes our consortium truly unique – the innovative partnerships that help us to span professional and geographical boundaries and take a holistic approach to confronting the childhood obesity epidemic in Chicago and beyond. In addition to the community-based organization…
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…lic Policy, Duke University Janet Cabot Past Executive Vice President and Managing Director, U.S. Food and Nutrition Practice Edelman Jamie Chriqui, PhD, MHS Professor, Division of Health Policy and AdministrationFellow, Institute for Health Research and Policy School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago Katherine Kaufer Christoffel, MD, MPH Emerita Professor of Pediatrics Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Terry T…
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