Public Health Profiles with General Data for each County
Other Resources:
Let's Move! - will give parents the support they need, provide healthier food in schools, help our kids to be more physically active, and make healthy, affordable food available in every part of our country.
NIH - We Can! - Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutirition
FindYouthInfo.gov is the U.S. government Web site that helps you create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs. Included are youth facts, funding information, and tools to help you assess community assets, generate maps of local and federal resources, search for evidence-based youth programs, and keep up-to-date on the latest, youth-related news.
Families on the Move Press Release Series
Short lessons using group discussion - based on the Families on the Move press releases"
“Children and Weight – what communities can do” – a coalition-building kit from California Cooperative Extension. Available to borrow from CES Media Collection (#18598); local WIC colleagues may also have a copy. Also available to purchase ($100) at http://groups.ucanr.org/anrcs/documents/Promotional_Flyers3356.pdf
The Center for Weight and Health at University of California - Berkeley
http://cwh.berkeley.edu/
“Pediatric Overweight Practice Guidelines – Implications for Extension Educators” by Sharon Robinson. Appears in the June 2004 issue of Journal of Extension http://www.joe.org/joe/2004june/tt4.shtml
Position of the American Dietetic Association: Individual-, Family-, School-, and Community-Based Interventions for Pediatric Overweight
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Volume 106, Issue 6, Pages 925-945 (June 2006). If you do not have access to this journal, follow the document delivery instructions for University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension personnel found here http://www.uwex.edu/ces/librarymediaservices/.
A summary of 3 reports about research-based approaches to childhood obesity prevention
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/wnep/specialist/nfl/mmpdfs/0512.pdf#page=3
The Future of Children Journal, Spring 2006 Issue on Childhood Obesity
Among the articles in this issue: Targeting Interventions for Ethnic Minority and Low-Income Populations; Markets and Childhood Obesity Policy; and 4 different articles examining the role of various factors in childhood obesity - built environments, child care, schools, and parents. A good resource to add to your collection on obesity, and it's all available online:
Spring 2006 Issue of The Future of Children
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