Communities Putting Prevention to Work In Action Views From the Field and What's Ahead

Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action: Views from the Field and What’s Ahead Erin MacDougall Healthy Eating and Active Living Program Public Health - Seattle & King County November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead Oakland, CA

Overview  CDC funding for Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW)  Identifying solutions through Healthy Eating policy and systems changes  Focus on food systems, including farmers markets, food policy council, farm to school, healthy retail and healthy food purchasing November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead Oakland, CA

Public health and food policy efforts in Seattle & King County, Washington  Farm to Table/Cooperative Purchasing  Healthy Vending Policy  Healthy Corner Stores November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead Oakland, CA

Seattle & King County Farm to Table Project Advancing Cooperative Food Purchasing  Goals:  Increase fruit and vegetable consumption by low income kids and seniors,  Strengthen local food system,  create relationships between providers to promote cooperative purchasing  Partners: City of Seattle, WA State Department of Agriculture, and Puget Sound Food Network  Sixteen programs serving seniors and children in childcare linked to local food producers November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead Oakland, CA

Seattle & King County King County Board of Health Healthy Vending Guidelines  Goals:  Provide healthier choices in vending machines focused on Dietary Guidelines 2010  Promote best practices for policy adoption and implementation  Useable for diverse types of organizations including public and private Available at: http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/%7e/media/health/publi chealth/documents/nutrition/HealthyVendingGuidelines.ashx November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead Oakland, CA

Seattle & King County Healthy Corner Stores  25 stores in urban and suburban communities  Partnering with Community Based Organizations  Bringing support to businesses including capital www.healthyfoodshere.o rg November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead Oakland, CA

Approaches for sustainability  Policy and systems changes by their nature are longer lasting and impact more people  CPPW is paying for changes that will live beyond the grant period  Snowball effect where organizations and governments see what others do and want to replicate and increase number of policy leaders  Building the evidence-base for effective interventions in the future November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead Oakland, CA

Resources  CFSC – foodsecurity.org  USDA Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative - www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/knowyourfarmer  National Farm to School Network – www.farmtoschool.org  National Healthy Corner Store Network – www.healthycornerstores.org/  National Good Food Network - www.ngfn.org/ November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead Oakland, CA

THANK YOU! Contact information: Erin MacDougall, PhD Healthy Eating and Active Living Program Manager Public Health Seattle & King County 206.263.8804 erin.macdougall@kingcounty.gov November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead Oakland, CA

Communities Putting Prevention to Work In Action Views From the Field and What's Ahead

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