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Girls Rule! Overview |
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Girls Rule teaches girls ages 6 through 9 and the women who care for them how to use dietary choices, physical activity, and a positive self image to maintain a healthy weight. The program was developed by the center for Health Promotion Disease Prevention at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in response to national concerns over a growing obesity risk in black females and the lack of programs for obesity prevention in this age group. This is a powerpoint presentation.
PPT: Girls Rule Overview_Ammerman.ppt
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After School Programs: Exemplary Practices in Nutrition, Physical Activity &
Food Security
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If you've been looking
for great ideas for afterschool programs, visit www.ccscenter.org to download a copy of the
new publication, below. It was developed in response to California's
Proposition 49 which, once a budget threshhold was passed, would put over $500M
into afterschool programs that provide educational enrichment. The "trigger" was
pulled last year, so now school districts and county offices of education are
delivering services themselves or contracting w/ other entities. This document
is intended to help them! We'd love your feedback!
New Nutrition
Education and Physical Activity Exemplary Practices Guide for Afterschool
Programs
We would
like to share with you the publication by the Center for Collaborative Solutions
(CCS) of its new guide for
afterschool programs: Developing Exemplary Practices in Nutrition
and Physical Activity in Afterschool Programs. This guide, funded by the Network for a Healthy California (USDA
Food Stamp Nutrition Education) and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, is
designed to help afterschool program leaders and their partners join in the
fight against the obesity epidemic facing our children and youth today in a
systematic and effective way. We have
been working with CCS over the past two years on the development of this guide
and the creation of regional learning centers to help other afterschool programs
learn how to implement these practices. We believe that this guide can play an important role nationally in
fighting the obesity epidemic and would like to work with you to help get the
word out.
Afterschool programs represent an environment that can make a difference
to children across the state—because state afterschool funding in California
focuses on low income schools where at least 50 percent of the students are
eligible for free and reduced lunches, and because afterschool programs have
more flexibility than found in the regular school day, they provide excellent
opportunities for addressing the most at-risk children.
This
guide explains six exemplary practices and contains indicator rubrics that can
be used by programs to assess how they are doing in each of the six practice
areas and to help them focus their attention on the areas they want to
improve. The indicators will also help
programs measure their improvement over time.
The practices include:
- establishing the vision;
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integrating nutrition and physical activity with youth
development principles;
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providing exciting and meaningful learning experiences that
integrate nutrition and physical activity into core activities;
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working closely with the community, families and the school as
full partners;
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improving food
security; and
developing diversified funding to sustain a quality
program over time.
Staff play a key role—and the guide explains just how central it
is.
The six
practices were developed by CCS after
initial research, focus group discussions, and consultation with a statewide
stakeholders group of nutrition, physical activity, afterschool, education and
other experts. Then a learning community
of 11 afterschool programs, selected for their strong nutrition and physical
activity focus, used the practices. Representatives from these afterschool programs have been meeting
together over the past two years to strengthen their programs by learning from
each other and other experts in the field. The meetings provided an opportunity to revise and improve the exemplary
practices. With their input and the
feedback from the statewide stakeholders group, CCS finalized the guide, which
is now posted on its website and can be downloaded in its entirety (www.ccscenter.org).
The guide
is part of the CCS' three-year initiative, Healthy Behaviors for Children and
Families: Strengthening Afterschool
Programs through Exemplary Nutrition, Physical Activity and Food Security
Practices, under a contract with the Network for a Healthy California. During 2007-2008, CCS will work with the
learning community afterschool programs to develop them into regional learning
centers that can provide hands-on help to other afterschool
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Development & Implementation of the LAUSD "Soda Ban" and "Junk Food Ban" - PPT |
Organization:
University of California, Los Angeles
Web Address:
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/chs/mchnutrition/Resources/pdf/asha%20presentation%2010.05%20no%
Description:
UCLA Nutrition Colloquium Series: Presented by Stephanie Vecchiarelli, EdD, MPH, School of Public Health, UCLA, on Dec. 1, 2005. Getting low-nutrient foods out of public schools involved a dramatic, cutting-edge policy shift for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Students and staff in two high schools were interviewed 9 months after the junk food bans were implemented to determine the impact on healthy eating in the schools (policy evaluation).
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Inventory of Major School Nutrition and Physical Activity Programs and Initiatives |
Organization:
University of Washington
Web Address:
http://depts.washington.edu/uwcphn/download/BP_Inventory.pdf
Description:
Center for Public Health Nutrition: Briefing paper developed for a Safe Table Forum - Food and Fitness in Our Schools: Policies, Challenges, and Strategies for Improvement. (November 2003)
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Childhood Nutrition and Physical Activity in the Schools: Background Briefing |
Organization:
University of Washington
Web Address:
http://depts.washington.edu/uwcphn/download/BP_BackgroundBriefing.pdf
Description:
Center for Public Health Nutrition: Briefing paper developed for a Safe Table Forum - Food and Fitness in Our Schools: Policies, Challenges, and Strategies for Improvement. (November 2003)
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School-Based Environmental Intervention - Powerpoint |
Organization:
University of California, Los Angeles
Web Address:
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/chs/mchnutrition/Resources/pdf/nfsc%20columbia%207.05.pdf
Description:
UCLA Nutrition Colloquium Series: Presented by Stephanie Vecchiarelli, Project Director for Charlotte Neumann, UCLA School of Public Health on May 5, 2005. Dr. Neumann's research project conducted with the Los Angeles Unified School District developed 15 steps to promote healthy nutrition and physical activity, using a multilevel school/community intervention model (school-based intervention).
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/chs/mchnutrition/MCH4-Resources-Presentations.html
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Is Breastfeeding Protective Against Obesity? (powerpoint handout) |
Organization:
University of California, Los Angeles
Web Address:
Direct link to resource
Main Resrouce Page
Description:
UCLA Nutrition Colloquium Series: Powerpoint handout (pdf file) of the slides to accompany the presentation when viewing the video of "Is Breastfeeding Protective Against Obesity?" on-line. Recorded Feb. 3, 2005 by Kay Dewey, PhD Professor of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, at UCLA. http://www.ph.ucla.edu/chs/mchnutrition/MCH4-Resources-Presentations.html
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Is Breastfeeding Protective Against Obesity? (reference list) |
Organization:
University of California, Los Angeles
Web Address:
Direct link to resource
main resource page
Description:
UCLA Nutrition Colloquium Series: Reference list for the presentation "Is Breastfeeding Protective Against Obesity?" given Feb. 3, 2005 by Kay Dewey, PhD Professor of Nutrition, University of California, Davis at UCLA.
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Is Breastfeeding Protective Against Obesity? VIDEO |
Organization:
University of California, Los Angeles
Web Address:
Direct link to resource
Description:
UCLA Nutrition Colloquium Series: Video recording of presentation given by Kay Dewey, PhD, Professor of Nutrition, University of California, Davis at UCLA on Feb. 3, 2005. Dr. Dewey summarizes the evidence relating increasing childhood obesity rates with low breastfeeding rates.
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| Building Health Communities for Children: The Physical and Social Environments |
Organization:
University of Minnesota
Web Address:
http://www.sph.umn.edu/publichealthplanet/events/healthycommunities.html
Description:
VIDEO: Building Health Communities for Children: The Physical and Social Environments A President's Interdisciplinary Academic Initiative. September 26-27, 2005 Video Presentation and Proceedings available to view and download. This conference examined critical aspects of environments affecting the health and well-being of children, from pre-conception to adolescence. Topics were organized around three broad themes, the natural environment, the built environment and the social environment, and around critical life stages. Special attention is given to the diverse social contexts in which children live, learn, and play. The goals of the conference were to identify new research findings that profile both threats and protective factors in physical and social environments affecting children's health (including obesity) through various life stages, to describe ways to translate scientific evidence into actions to protect and promote children's health and to identify research gaps and potential intervention, research and policy collaborations to address these gaps.
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/chs/mchnutrition/MCH4-Resources-Presentations.html
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Child Obesity Learning Module |
Organization:
University of Minnesota
Web Address:
http://www.epi.umn.edu/let
Description:
The Leadership, Education and Training (LET) Program in Maternal and Child Nutrition at the University of Minnesota provides graduate education and training and continuing education programs for Registered Dietitians, nutritionists and other health professionals who are interested in developing a specialization in maternal and child nutrition. The LET Program has contracted with leaders in the field of public health, maternal and child health and maternal and pediatric nutrition to develop web based curricula on maternal and child nutrition related topics. The Child Obesity Learning Module contains the following materials: Background information including a topic overview and literature review for instructors on the learning module topic; Overhead masters or slides prepared using PowerPoint that can be downloaded and reproduced for use in the classroom or clinical setting; Masters for handouts to be used in conjunction with the overheads and slides; Interactive learning strategies such as case studies and role playing activities; Ideas for additional learning activities or for more in-depth training; Sample examination or self-assessment questions.
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Food Fight: A Dialogue on Food Industry Litigation and the Obesity Epidemic |
Organization:
University of Minnesota
Web Address:
Click here to open this resource.
Description:
This streaming video resource includes a panel of experts discussing the similarities and differences between the food and tobacco industry including the legal basis for food lawsuits and important factors that determine the likelihood of food industry litigation. Key questions addressed by the panel include:
- What are the pros and cons of using litigation to achieve public health changes related to food and food marketing practice?
- What other strategies provide an effective alternative?
- What would best motivate the food industry to collaborate with public health advocates to develop food marketing strategies that might promote the control of the obesity epidemic?
Speakers/Panelists include: Mary Story, Simone French, David Etzwiler, Michael Ciresi, Skip Humphrey, Joe Price, Peter Goss, and Margo Wootan.
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GEMS: Girls Health Enrichment Multi-Site Program |
Organization:
University of Minnesota
Web Address:
http://www.epi.umn.edu/cyhp/r_gems2.htm
Description:
This resource outlines the development of an after-school obesity-prevention program for African-American girls and the findings from a 12 week randomized, controlled pilot trial conducted by the University of Minnesota, as part of a multi-site study to test interventions to reduce excessive weight gain in African-American girls. Slide presentation: www.epi.umn.edu/mch/resources/hg/hgp_obesity_gems.ppt
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GEMS: Girls Health Enrichment Multi-Site Program - SLIDE SHOW |
Organization:
University of Minnesota
Web Address:
http://www.epi.umn.edu/mch/resources/hg/hgp_obesity_gems.ppt
Description:
GEMS Slide Show
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Overweight Adolescent - Guidelines for Adolescent Nutrition Services |
Organization:
University of Minnesota
Web Address:
http://www.epi.umn.edu/let/pubs/adol_book.shtm
Description:
Guidelines for Adolescent Nutrition Services is a comprehensive overview of nutrition issues of teens. Select topics covered in the book include: physical and psychosocial development, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, eating disorders, sports nutrition and children with special health care needs. Chapter 7 focuses on the assessment, treatment and prevention of overweight among adolescents.
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Healthy Generations: Child Obesity |
Organization:
Healthy Generations is a newsletter that is produced by the University of Minnesota MCH Training Program. Several issues have been developed in collaboration with the University of Minnesota's MCH Nutrition Training Program on topics related to obesity assessment, prevention and treatment. A complete listing of Healthy Generations topics can be found at http://www.epi.umn.edu/mch/resources/index.shtm.
Web Address:
http://www.epi.umn.edu/mch/resources/hg/hg_childobestity.pdf
Description:
Healthy Generations is a newsletter that is produced by the University of Minnesota MCH Training Program. Several issues have been developed in collaboration with the University of Minnesota's MCH Nutrition Training Program on topics related to obesity assessment, prevention and treatment. A complete listing of Healthy Generations topics can be found at http://www.epi.umn.edu/mch/resources/index.shtm.
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Healthy Generations: Physical Inactivity |
Organization:
University of Minnesota
Web Address:
http://www.epi.umn.edu/mch/resources/hg/hg_physicalinactivity.pdf
Description:
Healthy Generations is a newsletter that is produced by the University of Minnesota MCH Training Program. Several issues have been developed in collaboration with the University of Minnesota's MCH Nutrition Training Program on topics related to obesity assessment, prevention and treatment. A complete listing of Healthy Generations topics can be found at http://www.epi.umn.edu/mch/resources/index.shtm.
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Learning Module on Nutrition-Related Health Disparities |
Organization:
University of Minnesota
Web Address:
http://www.epi.umn.edu/let/nutri/disparities/
Description:
The LET Program has developed web based curricula on maternal and child nutrition related topics. The Nutrition-Related Health Disparities module contains the following materials: Background information including an overview and literature review for instructors on obesity-related risk factors such as physical activity, obesity and dietary intake by race/ethnicity; Overhead masters or slides prepared using PowerPoint that can be downloaded and reproduced for use in the classroom or clinical setting.
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Promoting Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Among Youth of Color |
Organization:
University of Minnesota
Web Address:
Click here to view this resource.
Description:
This presentation focuses on the development of effective prevention strategies to promote healthy eating and physical activity behaviors among low-income youth and communities of color.
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Roundtable Series |
Organization:
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Web Address:
http://www.sph.umn.edu/publichealthplanet/events/roundtable/Past_Roundtables.html
Description:
June 2, 2005 Promoting Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Among Youth of Color: Engaging Communities Through Multi-Level Strategies March 8, 2005 Food Safety, Protection, and Defense. What Best Serves the Public Good? and Who Determines Acceptable Risk? September 14, 2004 Food Fight: A Dialogue on Food Industry Litigation and the Obesity Epidemic.
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WATCH - Cancer Intervention through Churches |
Organization:
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Web Address:
http://www.watchproject.net
Description:
WATCH (Wellness for African Americans Through Churches) is a church-based research program in North Carolina designed to prevent and detect colorectal cancer early. The program is aimed at improving nutrition, physical activity, and regular colorectal cancer screening among African American church members. The WATCH website offers videos on proper nutrition and physical activity, with specific strategies to prevent colorectal cancer. The website also offers manuals to offer guidance and instruction for lay health advisors. The videos offered include: Screening for Health! Screening for Life!, Exercise for Health! Exercise for Fitness!, Eat Five a Day…It's Easier than You Think, Trim the Fat! Cut the Risk!, and The Role of Lay Health Advisors. The manuals offered are: The Lay Health Advisor Manual and The Facilitator's Training Guide. There is a modest charge for the videos and manuals.
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