NEW WEBINAR SERIES:

Keeping Kids Moving: How Equitable Transportation Policy Can Reverse Childhood Obesity
(September 9 - October 21, 2010)

Register for the following webinar sessions:

• Thursday, September 9
  "Ready Set Go: Transportation Reauthorization"
  This webinar will provide an overview of federal transportation policy and various funding streams. It will include promising strategies for equitable transportation decision making that will help ensure all children and families have access to safe, reliable, affordable transportation options that encourage healthy, active lifestyles.
   
• Thursday, September 23
  "Hide and Seek: Where is Your School and How Do You Get There?"
  Safe routes to school and school siting guidelines within the framework of broader sustainable community development will be discussed during this webinar. Experts will also offer effective tactics for community leaders, schools, and parents to help more children safely walk and bicycle to school.
   

• Thursday, October 7
  "On the Go: Complete Streets and Public Transportation"
  This session will highlight strategies for effective advocacy and implementation of complete streets policies and offer advice for ensuring that access to public transportation and active living opportunities are equitably provided to all communities.
   
• Thursday, October 21
  "Feet to the Streets: Alternatives to Motorized Transportation"
  This webinar will discuss strategies for creating opportunities that encourage non-motorized transportation including: developing systems of trails and bike paths, implementing incentives for reducing dependence on motorized transportation, and promoting innovative land use strategies that support a variety of modes of active transportation.

ARCHIVES:

Making the Grade: Reversing Childhood Obesity in Schools
(February 25 - April 8, 2010)

Webinar sessions:

• June 24, 2010 "Pass or Fail: Evaluating How Industry Markets Food to Children

• May 27, 2010: "Reading, Writing, Running: The Connection Between Physical Activity and Academic Achievement"

• May 13, 2010: "Learning Curve: What You Need to Know about the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)"

Supplementary RWJF Center Hosted Webinars:

• April 26, 2010: "Increasing Physical Activity in America"
  A special webinar on the National Physical Activity Plan (www.physicalactivityplan.org)

ARCHIVES:

Making Schools the Model for Healthier Environments
(February 25 - April 8, 2010)

Webinar Sessions:

• April 8, 2010: "Let’s Get Physical: Being Active to Reverse Child Obesity"
   
• March 25, 2010: "Setting the Standard: What Schools are Doing about Competitive Foods"
   
• March 11, 2010: "Sowing Seeds: Improving Food Quality with Farm-to-School Programs"
   
• February 25, 2010: "Seizing the Moment: Efforts Underway to Improve our Schools"

2009 ARCHIVES

Let's End the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
(September 10 - December 17, 2009)

Webinar Sessions:

• 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"