- Healthy Kids, Smart Kids (RWJF Center, Spring 2010)
This case study focuses on the development of the Georgia program "Healthy Kids, Smart Kids," a successful initiative created to improve nutrition and increase physical activity in schools, led by elementary school principal Dr. Yvonne Sanders-Butler.
- Revolution Foods (RWJF Center, Spring 2010)
This case study examines how two colleagues were motivated to change the nutrition environment in schools and bring higher standards to school meals while keeping down costs.
- The Food Trust and Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (PolicyLink)
- South Central Los Angeles Fast Food Moratorium (PolicyLink)
Describes the essential elements that lead to the approval of an interim control ordinance designed to address the imbalance in food options available in South LA.
- Mobile Vending (PolicyLink, 2007)
Describes various opportunities and challenges associated with specific mobile vending situations in New York, Oakland and Los Angeles.
- California Ban on Soft Drinks (PolicyLink)
Highlights essential elements that helped catalyze an initiative to ban the sale of soda in elementary, middle and junior high schools throughout California.
- Why Place Matters (PolicyLink, 2007)
This report provides a way to understand the relationship between community conditions and health, analyzes the connections among all the environmental factors that contribute to a healthy community, and identifies environmental effects on community health.
- Using Food Stamps to Buy Fresh Produce at a Local Flea Market (PolicyLink)
Highlights a successful initiative to implement an EBT program at the Selma Flea Market in Fresno, CA.
- Kids Make a Stand in Shasta County (PolicyLink)
Highlights a Healthy Eating Active Communities (HEAC) effort in which area youth successfully convinced a local Wal-Mart to stock check-out stand with healthier choices.
- The Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative
(PolicyLink)
Describes a collaborative initiative among health departments across the San Francisco Bay Area to “transform public health practice for the purpose of eliminating health inequities using a broad spectrum of approaches that create healthy communities.”
- Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Health
(PolicyLink)
Provides rationale and recommendations for changing school food policies.
- Models for Change: Lessons for Creating Active Living Communities (Active Living Research, 2007)
Active Living Research supports research that identifies factors and policies that influence physical activity. ALR awarded grants to various researchers to study community efforts to change environments or policies. These 11 case studies address policy change procesess or new policy innovations.
- Texas Bringing Healthy Back: Growing Community (RWJF Center)
Case studies that examines the Texas Department of State Health Services communications initiative called “Growing Community,” to help educate and inspire communities into action to prevent childhood obesity. The four case studies highlight successful community-based change strategies across the state and include links to a short video series.
