The National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity model obesity prevention resolution is designed to help communities implement policies to address the obesity epidemic by improving physical activity environments, healthy food access, and disparities in their community. This resolution also assists communities with promoting obesity prevention policies in their schools, parks and recreation, community and day care centers, the food and beverage industry, hospitals, and the workplace.

To learn more visit: http://changelabsolutions.org/publications/model-local-obesity-prevention-resolution

Created by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, this Healthy Community Planning Toolbox is designed to help planners create healthy communities by integrating health in planning documents. Each community can “right-size” or customize tools to fit their unique community context—needs, aspirations, health priorities, disparities and existing resources. It contains two types of tools: process tools and policy tools. Process tools offer a set of health lens to build healthy and sustainable places under each task/step of the planning process. The policy intervention tools provide samples policies to achieve healthy community outcomes in six priority areas—physical activity, healthy food, safety and injury, placemaking, access to opportunity and natural environment. Logic models are introduced to assist planners identify the right set of tools to yield the intended physical, social and mental health outcomes.

Access the toolbox and associated tools at: http://www.tpchd.org/environment/planning-healthy-communities/healthy-community-planning-toolbox 

Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by First Lady Michelle Obama, dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams.

To learn more visit:  http://www.letsmove.gov/

This report outlines an action plan to end childhood obesity within a generation through a coordinated strategy and the identification of key benchmarks

To learn more visit:  http://www.letsmove.gov/white-house-task-force-childhood-obesity-report-president

This action kit for municipal leaders offers a broad range of strategies cities can use to promote physical activity, healthy eating, and access to healthy foods to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.

To learn more visit: http://www.nlc.org/find-city-solutions/iyef/community-wellness

Community Commons is an interactive mapping, networking, and learning utility for organizations, coalitions, and individuals dedicated to improving the health of their community, sharing the work with their peers, and learning together.

To learn more visit:  http://www.communitycommons.org/

PreventObesity.net harnesses the power of online networks to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.

To learn more visit:  http://www.preventobesity.net/

The Eat Healthy ● Be Active Community Workshop Series builds on concepts from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 and 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans by providing detailed tips for how to put these recommended behaviors into practice. The workshops are designed to move participants from the “thinking” phase to taking desired health actions. Six one-hour community workshops were developed. Each workshop includes a lesson plan, learning objectives, talking points, hands-on activities, videos, and handouts (available in English and Spanish). The workshops are designed for community educators, health promoters, dietitians/nutritionists, cooperative extension agents, and others to teach to adults in a wide variety of community settings.

To download the workshops or presentations visit: http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/workshops/

Free print copies of the Eat Healthy ● Be Active Community Workshop guides may be ordered here.

Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) recently released a Rural Obesity Toolkit. ORHP has also been working with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) to develop evidence-based toolkits for the Community Health Gateway located on the Rural Assistance Center (RAC) website http://www.raconline.org/communityhealth/.

To learn more visit: http://www.raconline.org/communityhealth/obesity/

This toolkit includes information on the role of cities can play in childhood obesity prevention.

To learn more visit:  http://www.healcitiescampaign.org/toolkit.html

This guide represents a collection of best approaches that have been identified, evaluated and selected in 10 action areas related to active living and healthy eating.

To learn more visit:  http://www.leadershipforhealthycommunities.org/index.php/home-toolkitnav-161?task=view

The Resource Center offers guides and toolkits for communities to consider using to strengthen their efforts.

To learn more visit:  http://www.cdc.gov/CommunitiesPuttingPreventiontoWork/resources/schools.htm#districts

This slide deck illustrates the obesity trends nationally and at the state level over the course of time.

To learn more visit:  http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/downloads/obesity_trends_2010.pdf

This report identifies and recommends a set of 24 strategies and associated measurements that communities and local governments can use to plan and monitor environmental and policy-level changes for obesity prevention.

To learn more visit:  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr5807.pdf

This powerpoint provides an overview of the role and actions local government can take to reduce or prevent obesity.

To learn more visit:  http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/downloads/CDC_Healthy_Communities.pdf

A community’s general plan can go a long way toward creating healthier neighborhoods – increasing opportunities to buy fresh foods, making it easier to walk and bike throughout the day, reducing crime and pollution, and more. The process of getting health-promoting policies into a general plan can seem daunting. But city planners, health department staff, local advocates, and others all have a role to play – and this planning process offers a critical opportunity to shape local development patterns for decades into the future. This roadmap highlights roles and strategies for key players to consider along the way.

To learn more visit: http://changelabsolutions.org/publications/GP-roadmap