1. Integrated Action for Active Living and Healthy Eating
Policy and Environmental Health Promotion Strategies by Community Partnerships
APHA - November 6, 2007
# Improving Community Health through Obesity Prevention Programs
Philip Bors, Joanne Lee, and Mark Dessauer
Active Living by Design

2. Overview Background Integrating AL and HE Community Examples
Policy/environmental change
Active Living by Design
Integrating AL and HE
Concepts/Framework
Challenges
Community Examples
Take Home Thoughts

3. Intervention Environment/Policy
Institute of Medicine
Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance, 2004
Changes at many levels and in numerous environments will require the involvement of multiple stakeholders from diverse segments of society.
Changes that lead to healthy communities, such as organizational and policy changes in local schools, school districts, neighborhoods, and cities, are equally important.

4. K 2003: Original $200,000/ 5 years – going into Y5
2006: Kellogg Food & Fitness
2005: Healthy Eating Sites
2005: BCBS Minnesota & North Carolina
2005: NC HWTF

5. Disclaimer
Strategies/tactics you are about to experience - not clinically proven beyond the shadow of a doubt, but…
Consistent with Community Guide and the direction of the science

6. ALbD Approach: 5P Strategies
Partnerships
Promotion
Programs
Policy Influence
Physical Projects

7. Partnerships
Active Louisville
Louisville, KY

8. Promotion
TT Minor Elementary
Seattle, WA

9. Kelly Elementary Portland, OR
Programs
Kelly Elementary Portland, OR

10. Seattle, WA

11. Policy Santa Monica, CA Sustainability Plan Madison, WI
Comprehensive Plan

12. Physical Projects
Pina Park Holyoke, MA

13. Maximizing Synergy Farmers Markets are Destinations
The Food Project - Boston, MA
Holyoke Farmers Market
Holyoke, MA

14. Maximizing Synergy Community Gardens
St. Peter Claver Garden
Louisville, KY

15. Take Home Partnerships can successfully integrate.
Look for collaborative processes and structures that make the most of the unique contribution of healthy eating and active living advocates.
Focusing on both issues can seem like twice the work, but look for synergies.

16. Questions / Thoughts? Extras…

17. Publications and References
Collaboration
Health Disparities

18. Publications and References
Policy/Env Review
Youth

19. www.activelivingbydesign.org Monthly Spotlights Action Model
ALbD Partnerships
ALbD Profiles
Visit our website – lots of helpful resources, including:
Links to publications, toolkits, presentations
Case studies
Active Transportation link
Etc.
Active Living Network
Active Living Resource Center
Leadership for Healthy Communities
Case Studies
Lessons Learned