About the Community Domain:

Next meeting:

Community Domain meetings are held intermittently throughout the year. For information on attending these meetings, please contact the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative at 858.609.7964 or email.

Visit the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative Calendar for a complete schedule of upcoming meetings.

Domain Champions:

Katie Judd, County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency

COI Staff Contact:

Cheryl Moder, Director, 858.609.7961, email
JuliAnna Arnett, Food Policy Manager, 858.609.7962, email
Melanie Briones, Senior Project Manager, 858.609.7976, email
Melanie Cohn, Manager, 858.609.7963, email
Erica Salcuni, Coordinator, 858.609.7964, email

Meeting Minutes:

2011

• March 2011

2010

• November 2010

Domain Summary:

The Community Domain is comprised of community, faith, youth, grassroots and public organizations committed to the prevention and reduction of childhood obesity. This domain enlists and empowers community residents and local organizations to engage in creating healthier environments in local neighborhoods. For a complete overview of this domain's objectives and activities, click here.

Community Domain Strategies:

The following is a partial list of strategies that aim to engage the community to prevent childhood obesity. A complete list of strategies can be located in Call to Action: Childhood Obesity Action Plan.

• Engage community residents to:
  • Increase understanding that a community's design, its food availability and its physical activity environments are directly linked to residents' health.
  • Take action and provide leadership to create healthy changes in settings such as workplaces, schools and neighborhoods.
• Engage community-based organizations to:
  • Enlist and empower community residents to advocate for healthy policy and environmental changes.
  • Foster development of a new generation of health leaders by engaging youth in advocacy efforts.

For a complete list of the Communities Domain strategies, please see the Call to Action: Childhood Obesity Action Plan.

Partners participating in this domain workgroup support community residents and local organizations in adopting these changes through the following activities:

• Engaging community, faith, youth, grassroots, and public organizations to support and advocate for healthy policy and environmental change.
• Providing resources, technical assistance, and support to organizations in making policy and environmental changes.

Workplans:

The following documents are project outlines for this domain's current activities:

• Resident Leadership Academy Brown Bags
• Youth Engagement & Action for Health (YEAH!) Trainings and Projects

Accomplishments:

These common ambitions and commitment to local policies and planning efforts have provided domain partners with the right tools for success. Recent accomplishments include:

• Implementing and refining Youth Engagement & Action for Health (YEAH!), a program for youth engagement and advocacy with emphasis on improving nutrition and physical activity environments in local communities; trained 77 adult group leaders in 2011 and has resulted in over 10 YEAH! projects.
• Collaborating with Healthy Works^SM grant partners to develop and implement Regional Garden Education Centers throughout the county to provide gardening resources and training.

Obesity Prevention Activities for Children Age 0-5:

The following activities impact San Diego County children age 0-5:

• Training youth to conduct neighborhood assessments and advocate for healthier food and physical activity environments in their communities.
• Adapting Regional Garden Education Centers gardening curricula for preschool providers through North County Community Services (NCCS), training scheduled for Spring 2012.

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