Lane Coalition for Healthy Active Youth LCHAY: Successes and Lessons Learned

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Lane Coalition for Healthy Active Youth (LCHAY)
Successes and Lessons Learned

• Healthy Active Oregon Training Institute
• Bend, Oregon
• May 10, 2007

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Lane Coalition for Healthy Active Youth
Beginnings

• Originated as LCMS community health project
• Conceived as a 2-3 yr project
• Key community leaders in areas of youth nutrition
  and physical activity
• Initial meeting Sept., 2004

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LCHAY Partners

• Lane County Medical Society
• Four school districts (Springfield, 4-J, Bethel,
  South Lane) Superintendents, Board members, RNs,
  Nutritional Services and PE
• KidSports
• Centro Latino Americano
• Parks and Recreation Depts. (Springfield and
  Eugene)

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LCHAY Partners (contd)

• YMCA
• Boys and Girls Club
• Head Start
• WIC
• LTD Smart Ways to School program
• OSU Lane County Extension Service
• Food for Lane County

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LCHAY Partners (contd)

• U of O city planning, media literacy,
  nutritional anthropology
• Birth-to-Three
• In all gt 140 people, gt 25 agencies, organizations

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LCHAY Literature Review

• Surgeon Generals Call to Action, 2001
• Institute of Medicines Preventing Childhood
  Obesity Health in the Balance
• Oregon DHS Statewide Nutrition and Physical
  Activity Plans
• American Public Health Associations Toolkit for
  Preventing Childhood Obesity
• UC Berkeleys Children and Weight What
  Communities Can Do

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LCHAY Mission

• To prevent childhood obesity by mobilizing our
  community to adopt active lifestyles and
  healthful nutrition

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LCHAY Vision Statement

• "Lane County is a community in which all youth
  lead healthy active lives fueled by nutritious
  food."

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LCHAY Goals

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• Increase daily physical activity among children
  and adolescents.
•         Reduce the amount of time kids spend
  watching television, video games, and the
  Internet.
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LCHAY Goals (contd)

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• Decrease the consumption of energy-dense,
  high-sugar/high-fat foods like soda, ice cream,
  junk food, and fast food.
• Increase the consumption of nutritious foods like
  fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and skim milk.

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LCHAYs Goals (contd)

• Assist with policy development that reinforces
  long-term environmental and individual behavioral
  change resulting in improved nutrition, increased
  physical activity and reduction of obesity and
  related chronic diseases

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LCHAY Goals (contd)

• Identify and utilize culturally sensitive
  strategies which reduce the prevalence of obesity
  in our community

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LCHAYs 1st Two Years Outreach, Education

• School Wellness Policy Development Toolkits
• Patient education materials
• BMI Data Collection
• Continuing Medical Education
• WECAN
• Prenatal-to-Pre-K Nutrition Activities Resource
  Book

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School BMI Results
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Resource Development

• United Way of Lane County- Northwest Health
  Foundation 6k for business
• PacificSource Health Plan 9k for website
  development
• Northwest Health Foundation 25k APPAN Grant
• Meyer Memorial Trust 136k 3-year Grant

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Advocacy for Policy Change

• Improving Access to Healthful Nutrition in
  Low-income Neighborhoods

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LCHAY Staff Interns (5/)7)

• Sarah Cribbs, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology,
• Heidi Hascall, Development Coordinator for
  Volunteers in Medicine

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Executive Director

• Laurie Trieger co-Chair of Lane Policy Food
  Council, former advocacy/outreach coordinator for
  FOOD for Lane County

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Board of Directors

• Susan Ban, ED of ShelterCare
• Loren Barlow, MD Internist
• Terry Brooks, MD Pediatrician
• Marion Diermayer, MD Internist
• Roscoe Divine, Businessman, 4 minute miler
• Jennifer Jordan, LCPH, Public Health educator

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Board of Directors

• Beth Gerot, 4 J School Board member
• Keith Hollenbeck, Assst. Supt. Springfield
  Schools
• Jorge Navarro, ED of Centro Latino Americano
• Seth Opp-Beckman, High School Junior
• Charlotte Riersgard, Staff Chair OSU Lane County
  Extension

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Lessons Learned

• Initially We cant do this alone
• Astonishment at how deeply and widely the topic
  of childhood obesity has touched our
  community/society

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Lessons Learned

• Setting Limits Prevention, Childhood
• Power of collaboration

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Lessons Learned

• Conflict is inevitable, but it need not divert
  attention away from the goals
• Never say never Successful WECAN application
  was completed in 3-4 days

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Lessons Learned

• Finding balance between widespread involvement
  and rapid progress/results is tricky
• Another balancing act Spreading yourselves too
  thin vs. Not doing enough

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Next Steps, Challenges

• Organizational development engaging defining
  membership
• Organizational status 501 ( c ) 3 vs. umbrella
• Avoiding volunteer fatigue

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Next Steps, Challenges

• A real Board
• Advocacy engaging both the membership and the
  target population
• Self-sustainability