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BUI LDI NG THE MOVEMENT TO REVERSE OBESI TY I N SOUTH CAROLI NA Carole Garner MPH, RD,LD Team Leader Engagem ent and Coordination, Robert W ood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity April 14, 2010 Groundw ork STATE OF

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BUI LDI NG THE MOVEMENT TO REVERSE OBESI TY I N SOUTH CAROLI NA

Carole Garner MPH, RD,LD

Team Leader Engagem ent and Coordination, Robert W ood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity

April 14, 2010

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STATE OF ARKANSAS

The Impact of Obesity: Economics, Health, Prevention & Treatment 2000

Presented by Obesity Task Force

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Robert W ood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Leadership provided by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement in strategic partnership with PolicyLink

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Goals of the RW JF Center

  • Reduce the prevalence of overweight and
  • besity among children in the U.S.
  • Decrease disparities in childhood obesity

– Communities of color – Impoverished areas – Disproportionately affected regions

  • Create systemic, sustainable changes
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RW JF Strategies/ Program s ADVOCACY EVI DENCE ACTI ON

Food Marketing & Youth Project (Yale Univ Rudd Ctr) Healthy Eating Research Salud America! Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Healthy Schools Program (Alliance for a Healthier Generation) New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids Safe Routes to School National Partnership: State Network Project Pioneering Healthier Communities: YMCA of the USA Active Living Research African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN) Bridging the Gap Communities Creating Healthy Environments Faith-Based Advocacy: Galvanizing Communities to End Childhood Obesity Leadership for Healthy Communities Mobilizing Health Care Professionals as Community Leaders in the Fight Against Childhood Obesity National Policy and Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity Campaign for Healthy Kids (Save the Children) RWJF Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity

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Energy Balance Fram ew ork of the RW JF Center

  • Increasing children’s

consumption of healthy foods and beverages and decreasing consumption of unhealthy alternatives

  • Increasing physical

activity

  • Building awareness and

support

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Factors Linked to Creating Energy I m balance

  • Food Environm ent
  • Built Environm ent

– Transportation – Parks – Safety

  • Education and the School Setting
  • Health Care
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Policy Priorities for Energy Balance

  • Federal
  • State
  • Local
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Federal Policy Opportunities

  • Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization
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Federal Policy Opportunities

  • K–12 Education
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Federal Policy Opportunities

  • Transportation
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Federal Policy Opportunities

  • Federal Trade Commission and Food

Marketing

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Federal Policy Opportunities

  • Health Care
  • Other Opportunities
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State and Local Opportunities

  • I nstitute of Medicine

– Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity – 58 action steps / 12 prioritized strategies

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

– Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity (7/ 09) – 24 Recommendations and assessments

  • Leadership for Healthy Com m unities

– Action Strategies Toolkit for local policy-makers (5/ 09) – 31 policy options and resources

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HI GHLI GHTS OF KEY LOCAL STRATEGI ES TO ADDRESS CHI LDHOOD OBESI TY

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I OM & CDC Recom m ended Strategies

Healthy Eating

  • Incentives to attract supermarkets in

underserved neighborhoods

  • Discourage consumption of sugar-

sweetened beverages and improve access to fresh drinking water

  • Improve access to healthy foods from

farms

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I OM & CDC Recom m ended Strategies

  • Improve and increase availability of

affordable healthier food and beverage choices in public service venues including public schools

  • Menu labeling
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I OM & CDC Recom m ended Strategies

Physical Activity

  • Joint use agreements
  • Increase opportunities for physical activity

in preschool, school, afterschool and child- care programs

  • Improve safety and security of streets and

park use, especially in higher-crime neighborhoods

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I OM & CDC Recom m ended Strategies

  • Develop safe and secure walking

environments including safe routes to schools

Social Marketing

  • Media campaigns to promote healthy

eating and active living

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Resources

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Com m unities Putting Prevention to W ork: MAPPS Products

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Location of Alliance for a Healthier Generation Healthy Schools Program by Type of Site and Location of Robert W ood Johnson Foundation Funded Grantees

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“Juntas Podem os [ Together W e Can] : Em pow ering Latinas To Shape Policy To Prevent Childhood Obesity”

  • Juntas Podem os - researchers, com m unity leaders and

Latino fam ilies – Effective policy recommendations regarding physical activity in Latino children from West Columbia – Use Photovoice to collect data from Latina mothers and community stakeholders, document and analyze the issues. Interviews and focus groups from the community and local schools to document their perspective – Develop recommendations regarding physical activity among children and disseminated to policy-makers at many different levels.

  • Dr. Myriam E. Torres, University of South Carolina Research

Foundation

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Greenville

  • Activate Greenville, a partnership anchored by the

YMCA, w ill focus on school-related initiatives.

– Safe Routes to School – Healthy snack program

  • And on neighborhood-based initiatives.

– trails and green spaces for physical activity

  • I n three com m unities: Berea, Nicholtow n and

Sterling.

  • Eleanor Dunlap, Director
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Spartanburg County

  • Advocate “connectivity” to parks and healthy food
  • utlets in four at-risk com m unities: the city’s

predom inantly African-Am erican northw est neighborhoods, w here nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price school lunch program s, and the m ajority-W hite rural com m unities of Boiling Springs, Pacolet and W oodruff

  • I nitiatives such as farm ers-m arkets; Hub Cycle,

bicycle lending program expansion; initiating Safe Routes to School; form ation of a Food Policy Council

  • Laura Ringo, Director
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Cam paign for Healthy Kids

  • Farm to School Act in partnership

w ith Eat Sm art, Move More SC

  • March Advocacy Day
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New Opportunities

  • National Association of County & City

Health Officials

  • National Association of State Boards
  • f Education
  • National Conference of State

Legislatures

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Potential Partners

  • National Association for the Education
  • f Young Children
  • National Com m unity Developm ent

Association

  • Am erican Planning Association
  • Points of Light I nstitute Youth

HandsOn Netw ork

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South Carolina Program s & Projects

  • Eat Sm art, Move More… SC
  • W alterboro farm er's m arket
  • Color Me Healthy
  • South Carolina I nstitute for Childhood

Obesity and Related Disorders

  • Coordinated School Health
  • Legislation

– Students Health and Fitness Act of 2005 – Act 269 of 2006 protects a woman's right to breastfeed in public – Bicycle Safety

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Conclusion

  • Reversing the

epidem ic

  • Targeting those m ost

at risk

– Low-income, rural, children

  • f color
  • Building a legacy of

healthy com m unities

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Contact inform ation w w w .reversechildhoodobesity.org carole@reversechildhoodobesity.org