Please join The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity and your colleagues in the field to discuss:

• childhood obesity research,
• best practices for addressing childhood obesity, and
• strategies for using policy and environmental change to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity.

The center's first round of webinars in 2010 is focused on, “Making Schools the Model for Healthier Environments." Each webinar will be held bi-monthly on Thursdays at 2 p.m. Eastern (1 p.m. Central, 11 a.m. Pacific), and will discuss initiatives currently underway to ensure that schools become the standard for healthy eating and active living.

Register for future webinars: 

• March 11: "Sowing Seeds: Improving Food Quality with Farm-to-School Programs"
   
• March 25: "Setting the Standard: What Schools Are Doing about Competitive Foods"
   
• April 8: "Let’s Get Physical: Being Active to Reverse Child Obesity" 
   

To view powerpoints and audio from past webinars in 2010, see archives below:

February 25: "Seizing the Moment: Efforts Underway to Improve our Schools"

• Listen to our bonus post-webinar questions & answer session audio clip, featuring webinar panelists Jim Gerstein, founding partner of Gerstein|Agne; and Vicki Berends, marketing director at California Project LEAN.

2009 ARCHIVES:
"Let's End the Childhood Obesity Epidemic" Webinar Series

 September 10, 2009: "Introducing the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity"

September 17, 2009: "Making Local Communities Healthier: The RWJF Center Hosts an Expert Discussion on the latest IOM Childhood Obesity Report"

September 24, 2009: "The Face of the Childhood Obesity Epidemic"

October 1, 2009: "Communities Putting Prevention to Work: Accessing and Implementing ARRA Funds"

October 8, 2009: "Advocating for Healthier Communities through Transportation Policy: Research and Opportunities"

October 22, 2009: "Intervening Early: Childcare as an untapped setting for Preventing Childhood Obesity"

October 29, 2009: "From the Floor to the Ceiling: What Every Public Health Advocate Should Know About Preemption"

November 5, 2009: "Changing the Channel: The Influence of Food Marketing on Childhood Obesity"

November 12, 2009: "Getting Back in Balance: Influencing Policy and Environmental Factors to Increase Children’s Physical Activity Levels and Consumption of Nutritious Foods"

December 3, 2009: "Engaging Youth in Childhood Obesity Prevention"

December 10, 2009: "Part II: Intervening Early -- Childcare as an Untapped Setting for Preventing Childhood Obesity"

December 17, 2009: "Is it Working? What Every Health Advocate Should Know about Evaluating Policy and Environmental Change"