- The Food Trust and Pennsylvania FFFI (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)
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)
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
Highlights a successful initiative to implement an EBT program at the Selma Flea Market in Fresno, CA.
- Kids Make a Stand in Shasta County
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.
- Kaiser Permanente: A Health System Looking Beyond Health Care (coming soon)
Describes an initiative to bring farmers markets to hospitals and health clinics.
- The Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative
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
Provides rationale and recommendations for changing school food policies.
- Models for Change: Lessons for Creating Active Living Communities
Active Living Research, which supports research that identifies
factors and policies that influence physical activity, awarded grants to various researchers to study community efforts to change active living environments or policies. These 11 case studies address policy change process or new policy innovations.
- Texas Bringing Healthy Back: Growing Community
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.
