About the Community Domain:

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Next meeting:

Community Domain meetings are held intermittently throughout the year. For information on attending these meetings, please contact the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative at 858.609.7964 or email.

Visit the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative Calendar for a complete schedule of upcoming meetings.

Domain Champions:

Katie Judd, County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency

COI Staff Contact:

Cheryl Moder, Director, 858.609.7961, email
JuliAnna Arnett, Food Policy Manager, Healthy Works^SM, 858.609.7962, email
Melanie Cohn, Manager, 858.609.7963, email
Erica Salcuni, Coordinator, 858.609.7964, email

Meeting Minutes:

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2011

• March 2011

 

2010

• November 2010

Domain Summary:

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The Community Domain is comprised of community, faith, youth, grassroots and public organizations committed to the prevention and reduction of childhood obesity. This domain enlists and empowers community residents and local organizations to engage in creating healthier environments in local neighborhoods. For a complete overview of this domain's objectives and activities, click here.

Community Domain Strategies:

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The following is a partial list of strategies that aim to engage the community to prevent childhood obesity. A complete list of strategies can be located in Call to Action: Childhood Obesity Action Plan.

• Engage community residents to:
  • Increase understanding that a community's design, its food availability and its physical activity environments are directly linked to residents' health.
  • Take action and provide leadership to create healthy changes in settings such as workplaces, schools and neighborhoods.
• Engage community-based organizations to:
  • Enlist and empower community residents to advocate for healthy policy and environmental changes.
  • Foster development of a new generation of health leaders by engaging youth in advocacy efforts.

For a complete list of the Communities Domain strategies, please see the Call to Action: Childhood Obesity Action Plan.

Partners participating in this domain workgroup support community residents and local organizations in adopting these changes through the following activities:

• Engaging community, faith, youth, grassroots, and public organizations to support and advocate for healthy policy and environmental change.
• Providing resources, technical assistance, and support to organizations in making policy and environmental changes.

Workplans:

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The following documents are project outlines for this domain's current activities:

• Resident Leadership Academy Brown Bags
• Youth Engagement & Action for Health (YEAH!) Trainings and Projects

 

Accomplishments:

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These common ambitions and commitment to local policies and planning efforts have provided domain partners with the right tools for success. Recent accomplishments include:

• Creating Youth Engagement and Action for Health (YEAH!), a training manual for youth advocacy with emphasis on improving the nutrition and physical activity environments in local communities.
• Creating faith advisory councils and providing tools to enhance the faith community's role in obesity prevention and building healthier communities.
• Supporting development of the City Heights Farmers' Market, the first market in San Diego County to regularly accept EBT, and expansion of EBT accessibility at farmers' markets county-wide.

Obesity Prevention Activities for Children Age 0-5:

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The following activities impact San Diego County children age 0-5:

• Conducting a county-wide assessment of the summer meal program to identify opportunities to expand the program for children, ages 0-18, and enhance opportunities to reinforce child and family wellness.
• Supporting development of a farmers' market toolkit to increase access to healthy, affordable foods in low-income communities.
• Supporting adoption of wellness policies to ensure healthy options are available to children and families in the faith community.

Resources:

TITLE	DESCRIPTION
Power Up for Sports & Health (PUSH) Toolkit	The PUSH Toolkit provides ideas, tools and support to make healthy nutrition part of the athletic experience for children and families engaged in organized sports.
Youth Engagement & Action for Health (YEAH!) Manual To learn more about the YEAH! program, contact us.	The YEAH! Manual trains community stakeholders to work with youth and adult volunteers on community nutrition and physical activity improvement projects.
Summer Meal Program Assessment	Coming soon!
Farmers' Market Map	The online version of the Union Tribune provides an interactive map that displays the location of all farmers' markets and community gardens in the county.
Federal Policy Advocacy Handbook	This document provides readers an overview of the federal policy process and the basics of legislative advocacy related to community food security.
Food Atlas	This new online tool allows for you to get a spatial overview of your community's ability to access healthy food-grocery stores, farmers' markets, food prices, restaurants, food insecurity.
icansandiego Resources for Faith Communities	The icansandiego Resources for Faith Communities Toolkit is designed to help faith leaders ensure a healthier future for its congregants and community-at-large by creating environments that support healthy habits.
Community Perspectives on Obesity Prevention in Children	Establishing healthy eating and physical activity habits in preschool-aged children is critical to developing their life-long habits for healthy eating and physical activity.  With such large numbers of U.S. children in child care, child care providers are in a unique position to support and facilitate healthful eating and promote physical activity among young children.  Duke University School of Medicine examined state child care regulations from the fifty US States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands.  Findings are available by state.
Healthy Family Home	This YMCA toolkit provides families simple strategies for incorporating healthy habits into their daily lives and homes with resources, newsletters, tips, downloads, and other useful tools.
Community Toolbox: Bringing Solutions to Light	This toolbox is designed to promote positive community health and development by equipping community members with the skills needed for civic change- community assessment, planning, community mobilization and intervention, advocacy, evaluation, and marketing.
How to Talk about Food and Physical Activity	This guide provides youth with simple key points for talking about the systems that impact healthy eating and physical activity and the need for healthy community environments.
School's Out...Who Ate?	This report tracks progress and trends in summer nutrition over the past year for low-income children in California.  Report was prepared by California Food Policy Advocates using data provided by the California Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.