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Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
Views from the Field and What’s Ahead November 6, 2011 Oakland, CA
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
Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
Views from the Field and What’s Ahead November 6, 2011 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
Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
Views from the Field and What’s Ahead November 6, 2011 Oakland, CA
Public health and food policy efforts in Seattle & King County, Washington
Farm to Table/Cooperative Purchasing
Healthy Vending Policy Healthy Corner Stores
Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
Views from the Field and What’s Ahead November 6, 2011 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
Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
Views from the Field and What’s Ahead November 6, 2011 Oakland, CA
Seattle & King County
King County Board of HealthHealthy 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/publichealth/documents/nutrition/HealthyVendingGuidelines.ashx
Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
Views from the Field and What’s Ahead November 6, 2011 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.org
Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
Views from the Field and What’s Ahead November 6, 2011 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
Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
Views from the Field and What’s Ahead November 6, 2011 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/
Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
Views from the Field and What’s Ahead November 6, 2011 Oakland, CA
THANK YOU!
Contact information:
Erin MacDougall, PhD
Healthy Eating and Active Living Program Manager
Public Health Seattle & King County
206.263.8804
