Childcare Settings and Childhood Obesity Prevention Toolkit
The following resources are for advocates, state childcare subsidy, Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and licensing agencies, state and local health promotion and obesity prevention initiatives, childcare providers, policymakers, and other key stakeholders interested in policy and environmental changes in childcare settings. These resources include a list of RWJF grantees working in this field, two best practices and strategy toolkits, research on childcare settings, a practice-based intervention guide, and model physical activity standards.
Preventing Obesity in the Childcare Setting: Evaluating State Regulations (*New*)
National Survey of Obesity Prevention Practices in Head Start -- published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (*New*)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity Childcare Research
Making Delaware Early Child Care Environments Healthier (Nemours)
Nutritional Improvements in Delaware's Early Care and Education Facilities (Nemours)
Summary of Agriculture Appropriations Bill (Nemours)
Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Conference website (Nemours)
Nemours Health and Prevention Services website (Nemours)
Child Care and Wellness Toolkit: Child and Adult Care Food Program (The Food Research and Action Center - FRAC)
National Policy and Legal Analysis Network (NPLAN)
Leadership for Healthy Communities Action Strategies Toolkit (LHC)
The Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAP SACC)
Youth Engagement Toolkit
The following is a compilation of resources that will help public health advocates and researchers incorporate youth engagement in their childhood obesity prevention work. This includes both national and international case studies, research articles and specific tools that can be used to engage youth in becoming change agents in their communities.
Websites:
Centre of Excellence for Youth Engagement (CEYE)
UNESCO Growing up in Cities Project
Teens as Community Builders (Project for Public Spaces)
Case Study:
Case Study on the Truth Campaign: "The Birth of "truth" (and What It Tells Us About the Importance of Horizontal Influence)" (George Washington School of Public Health and Health Services)
Toolkit:
Photovoice as a Tool for Youth Policy Advocacy Toolkit (Healthy Eating Active Communities)
Food Marketing to Children Toolkit
This toolkit is a compilation of resources that support policy and environmental changes to decrease the amount of marketing of unhealthy food products to our children. This includes evidence, recommendations and action steps for improving the media landscape to which our children are exposed.
Cereal F.A.C.T.S (Food Advertising to Children and Teens Score) website (Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University)
The Children's Food & Beverage Advertising Initiative in Action: A Report on Compliance and Implementation During 2008 (Council of Better Business Bureaus)
Healthy Eating, Active Living Toolkit (Berkeley Media Studies Group)
Taking Action Against Childhood Obesity in Communities of Color: Executive Summary (MEE Productions)
The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity (Kaiser Family Foundation)
Food and Beverage Marketing to Children and Adolescents: What Changes are needed to Promote Healthy Eating Habits (The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Adolescent Exposure to Food Advertising on Television: Research Highlight (The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity? (Institute of Medicine)
The Future of Children's Media: Advertising (Children Now)
We Can! or "Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition" (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute)
Planet Health website
The Leadership for Healthy Communities Action Strategies Toolkit
This toolkit outlines numerous policy strategies designed to reduce childhood obesity and create healthier communities. Eleven of the nation's most prominent policy-maker organizations were instrumental in creating this toolkit, and in the preface of this comprehensive resource, the organizations expressed their committment to work collaboratively across levels of government to build healthier communities. Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was created to support local and state leaders nationwide in their efforts to promote healthy, active communities and access to affordable healthy foods.
ARRA 2009/Communities Putting Prevention to Work Grant Toolkit
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) includes $650 million for evidence-based clinical and community-based prevention and wellness strategies that support specific, measurable health outcomes to reduce chronic disease rates. In response to this Funding Opportunity Announcement, the R WJF Center has developed detailed materials to assist organizations in developing grant proposals.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adult and Community Health, will administer $373 million to communities through the Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) competitive grant initiative.
Please download the documents below to assist you in your application process:
ARRA 2009 – CCPW Guidance Memo
CPPW Letter of Intent (LOI) Template
CPPW (Cat A) - Obesity Physical Activity Nutrition
CPPW Abstract
CPPW Recipient Activities
CPPW MAPPS Product Chart Introduction
CPPW MAPPS Product Chart (Excel)
CPPW MAPPS Product Chart (PDF)
Transportation and Health Toolkit
This toolkit is a compilation of resources that support the efforts of policy and environmental changes that incorporate health and equity considerations into transportation decision-making. This includes evidence, recommendations and action steps for improving transportation policy.
RWJF Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity Position Statement on the Intersection of Transportation and Health
Active Living Research Briefs
• Active Travel: The Role of Self-Selection in Explaining the Effect of Built Environment on Active Travel
• Active Travel: Making the Link from Transportation to Physical Activity and Obesity
• Walking and Biking to School, Physical Activity and Health Outcomes
• The Regional Response to Federal Funding for Bicycle and Pedestrian Projects
Safe Routes to School National Partnership
Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research
The Transportation Prescription: Bold New Ideas for Equitable Transportation Reform in America
Convergence Partnership, Transportation & Health 101 Toolkit
