Health Eating Active Communities (HEAC)
Central California Regional Obesity Prevention (CCROPP)
Joint Use of School Facilities for Physical Activity
Reducing Consumption of Sugar Sweetened Beverages
Sugar Sweetened Beverages Counter-Advertising Campaign in San Francisco
Parent Engagement
Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds (with the California Teachers Association)
Improving Physical Activity/Physical Education in Schools by Improving Policies
Obesity Prevention in School Based Health Centers
Health Eating Active Communities (HEAC)
From 2005-2010, The California Endowment funded California Project LEAN to serve as its training and technical assistance provider to its school sector grantees involved with its $26+ million childhood obesity prevention program, California Project LEAN provides training, resources and ongoing technical assistance on improving the school food and physical activity environment in California through policy change.
For more information about this project, contact Cyndi Guerra Walter at cyndi.walter@cdph.ca.gov or (916) 552-9980.
Central California Regional Obesity Prevention (CCROPP)
CCROPP is a program that supports access to healthy, affordable foods and access to physical activity resources in multiple counties in California’s Central Valley. California Project LEAN provides support and resources to CCROPP stakeholders working with school sites. Through parent engagement trainings, school staff trainings on local school wellness policies, and technical assistance to CCROPP community partners, California Project LEAN is helping to improve school nutrition and physical activity environments.
For more information about this project, contact Grace Huppert at grace.huppert@cdph.ca.gov or (916) 552-9891.
Joint Use of School Facilities for Physical Activity
California Project LEAN, in partnership with the California Center for Physical Activity, is working to improve state and local policies and practices that support community use of school facilities outside of the school day for the purposes of physical activity and recreation. Many communities across California lack safe, well-maintained, and accessible places for community members to be physically active. Access to no- or low-cost public spaces for physical activity plays a critical role in the prevention and treatment of obesity and overweight. In many communities, schools provide the only open space for recreation and physical activity for students, families, and the community. Policies and practices that support community use of outdoor facilities anytime outside of the school day and/or agreements where schools/districts/county offices of education jointly share recreational facilities for community use before, during and/or after the school day are a healthy solution that optimizes resources.
For more information about this project, contact Joanne Gooley at joanne.gooley@cdph.ca.gov or (916) 449-5294.
Reducing Consumption of Sugar Sweetened Beverages
California Project LEAN is working to limit the availability of unhealthy drinks (i.e., sugar-sweetened beverages) (SSBs) through promoting policy changes that limit the sale of SSBs in California public schools. SSBs are the single largest contributor of calorie intake in the United States and increased SSB intake is associated with poor diet, obesity, and risk for diabetes. For children, each extra can or glass of a SSB consumed per day increases their chance of becoming obese by 60 percent. Current State legislation prohibits the sale of soda in schools but allows the sale of other SSBs, such as electrolyte replacement beverages. These often have as much sugar as soda and in 2008, a representative sample of California public high schools indicated that 8 of the 10 top beverages sold a la carte were electrolyte replacement beverages. CA Project LEAN will work with key partners to lay the groundwork to close the gap in the law that allows public middle and high schools in California to sell electrolyte replacement beverages.
For more information about this project, contact Cyndi Guerra Walter at cyndi.walter@cdph.ca.gov or (916) 552-9980.
Sugar Sweetened Beverages Counter-Advertising Campaign in San Francisco
California Project LEAN is funding the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) to run a sugar sweetened beverages counter-advertising campaign. SFDPH will use the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s “Pouring on the Pounds” media campaign materials on billboards, transit, and other out of home locations in order to: educate city residents about the relationship of sugar sweetened beverages to obesity; reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages; and to shift public opinion regarding sugar sweetened beverages. Ads will run for a three month period of time beginning in February of 2009.
For more informaiton about this project, contact joanne.gooley@cdph.ca.gov or (916) 449-5294.
California Project LEAN’s parent engagement efforts have focused primarily on engaging parents in local school wellness policy in order to improve the food and physical activity environments in their children’s schools. California Action for Healthy Kids recently contracted with California Project LEAN to provide a series of parent engagement trainings in the Los Angeles Unified School District throughout the 2009 – 2010 school year.
For more information about these projects, please contact Nestor Martinez at nestor.martinez@cdph.ca.gov or (916) 730-7835.
California Project LEAN also partners with the Network for a Healthy California to provide engagement trainings throughout the state. The trainings focus on improving parent knowledge of nutrition and physical activity and understanding ways they can become engaged in improving student access to fruits and vegetables and physical activity opportunities.
For more information about this project, contact Katherine Hawksworth at katherine.hawksworth@cdph.ca.gov or (916) 552-9959.
Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds with the California Teachers Association (CTA)
California Project LEAN serves as the content expert on CTA’s Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds project, which was established in 2008 to promote the positive student impacts of school nutrition and physical activity. CA Project LEAN provides CTA with resources and trainings for teachers and local associations that outline ways they can improve school food and physical activity environments.
For more information about this project, contact Joanne Gooley at joanne.gooley@cdph.ca.gov or (916) 449-5294.
Improving Physical Activity and Physical Education in Schools by Improving District Policies
California Project LEAN, in partnership with the California School Boards Association (CSBA), is working with school board members to elevate the importance of physical activity and physical education before, during and after school. CA Project LEAN and CSBA are providing resources and trainings to district governance teams on physical activity policy adoption, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
For more information about this project, contact Vicki Berends at vicki.berends@cdph.ca.gov or (916) 552-9894.
Obesity Prevention in School Based Health Centers
California Project LEAN is teaming with the California School Health Centers Association to promote strategies for school based health center staff to enhance their obesity prevention efforts in the health center as well as assume a leadership role in the implementation of the local school wellness policy. A series of three trainings will be held in California in 2010 to address these issues.
For more information about this project, contact Cyndia Guerra Walter at cyndi.walter@cdph.ca.gov or (916) 552-9980.
