[Jog] ACHIEVE Obesity Prevention Grants for 43 Communities

[Jennifer L YOUNG]

Congratulations to the 2009 ACHIEVE Communities in Oregon!
 
Jefferson County - HEALTH (Healthy Environments Active Living Total Health) funded by National Association of Chronic Disease Directors 
Multnomah County  - Healthy Active Multnomah County funded by National Association of Chronic Disease Directors 
Columbia County, OR funded by National Association of County and City Health Officials
 
Compliments of ...
 
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   Center for Family and Community Health
           School of Public Health
      University of California, Berkeley
           http://cfch.berkeley.edu 
  A CDC Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
        and Health Promotion Research
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Forty-three Communities Receive Grants To Combat Obesity and Chronic Diseases
 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Association of 
County and City Health Officials, National Association of Chronic 
Disease Directors, National Recreation and Park Association, and YMCA 
of the USA partner on ACHIEVE.
 
Press Release, Mar 2, 2009
 
Atlanta, GA (<http://www.prweb.com/>PRWEB ( http://www.prweb.com/> )) March 2, 2009 -- The 
National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), 
the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD), the 
National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), and the YMCA of the 
USA (Y-USA) today announced that 43 U.S. communities have been 
selected in 21 states to advance community leadership in the nation's 
efforts to prevent chronic diseases and related risk factors through 
a locally collaborative approach. This approach, called Action 
Communities for Health, Innovation, and EnVironmental changE 
(ACHIEVE), is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC)'s Healthy Communities Program.
 
The purpose of ACHIEVE is to bring together local leaders and 
stakeholders to build healthier communities by promoting policy, 
systems, and environmental change strategies that focus on physical 
activity, nutrition, tobacco cessation, obesity, diabetes and 
cardiovascular disease.
 
ACHIEVE is an innovative approach that brings together all sectors of 
a community to spur policy change toward prevention of chronic 
diseases. The 2009 ACHIEVE communities will build on the successes 
learned in the 2008 ACHIEVE pilot communities. The ACHIEVE approach 
aims to promote improvements such as increased access to and use of 
attractive and safe locations for engaging in physical activity; 
revised school food contracts that include more fruits and vegetables 
and whole grain foods; and requirements for sidewalks and crossing 
signals in neighborhoods to make them more pedestrian-friendly, among others.
 
ACHIEVE fosters collaborative partnerships between city and county 
health officials, city and county government, tribal programs, parks 
and recreation departments, local YMCAs, local health-related 
coalitions, and other representatives from the school, business, 
health, and community sectors. State Departments of Health are also 
available to help provide state-based resources and information as 
well as linkages to other collaborators to help communities meet 
their goals. ACHIEVE recognizes the roles of these institutions as 
trusted community conveners and aims to combine public health 
expertise from the state and local levels with the experience of the 
YMCA and local parks and recreation departments that have expertise 
in providing community support and outreach.
 
"The CDC is pleased to collaborate with and support the efforts of 
these national partners to make positive and sustainable community 
health changes to establish healthy lifestyles and environments" said 
Dr. Wayne Giles, Director, CDC's Division of Adult and Community 
Health. "Promoting healthier lifestyles and supporting healthy 
communities will help us meet our goal of reducing chronic diseases. 
Through community action and partnerships, we can create a synergy 
that assists people in making healthy choices where they live, learn, 
work and play."
 
The communities applied for this program and were selected after a 
competitive review process that included hundreds of applications. 
Grant funding will be distributed among the teams to encourage 
attendance at leadership conferences, including an Action Institute 
where community leaders can learn about effective strategies to 
design, implement and effect community change.
 
What's Next for ACHIEVE Teams
 
Local community members will immediately begin to compose teams 
consisting of 10 local leaders. Each team will include 
representatives from the following categories: elected officials; 
state and local directors of public health organizations; business 
leaders from various industries; and leaders of local schools, parks 
and recreation departments, hospitals, and other community 
organizations. These teams will convene at one of two regional Action 
Institutes in Alexandria, Virginia, or Denver, Colorado, in July 
2009. At this training conference, attendees will be taught by 
nationally known experts to effect change in their communities.
 
For a complete listing of all funded communities, please visit the 
ACHIEVE Web site at 
<http://www.achievecommunities.org>www.achievecommunities.org ( http://www.achievecommunities.org> )or 
CDC's Healthy Communities Program's Web site at: 
<http://www.cdc.gov/healthycommunitiesprogram>www.cdc.gov/healthycommunitiesprogram ( http://www.cdc.gov/healthycommunitiesprogram> ). 
 

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/03/prweb2198254.htm 
 
 
Jennifer Young, MPH, RD
Nutrition and Physical Activity Coordinator
Office of Family Health
Public Health Division, DHS
800 NE Oregon St., Ste. 825
Portland, OR 97232
telephone: (971) 673-0245
fax: (971) 673-0240
jennifer.l.young at state.or.us    
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