Session: Featured Project Session: Healthy Eating, Active Communities: A Multi-sectoral Approach to Improving Food and Physical Activity Environments in Communities

APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

5097.0: Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Oral

Featured Project Session: Healthy Eating, Active Communities: A Multi-sectoral Approach to Improving Food and Physical Activity Environments in Communities

This session will feature six talks focused on The Healthy Eating, Active Communities program and it’s approach to addressing the current epidemic of childhood obesity.

Learning Objectives: • Articulate the need for programs that involve multiple ‘sectors’ within which communities should work to address childhood obesity • Understand the benefits of working with a neighborhood school • Describe an approach to participatory assessment • Describe the importance of decision-making champions • Explain a strategy for engaging youth in advocacy

Moderator(s):

Maria Casey, MA, MEd

12:30 PM

Changing the landscape of South Los Angeles: Benefits of collaboration between community residents and decision makers
Aurora Flores, MPH

12:45 PM

Using a neighborhood school to anchor improvements in food and physical activity environments
David Kakishiba

1:00 PM

Using participatory assessment and youth leadership to change physical activity environments
Michele Erickson

1:15 PM

Policy-making process to improve city food environments: "Champions" and Challenges
Leah M. Fraser, PhD

1:30 PM

"Healthy Chula Vista": Creating a community that supports healthy and active living through environmental design
Dana Richardson, Tanya Rovira-Osterwalder, MS IMFT