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

Lane Coalition for Healthy Active Youth (LCHAY): Successes and Lessons Learned. Healthy Active Oregon Training Institute Bend, Oregon May 10, 2007. Lane Coalition for Healthy Active Youth: Beginnings. Originated as LCMS community health project Conceived as a 2-3 yr project

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

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  1. Lane Coalition for Healthy Active Youth (LCHAY): Successes and Lessons Learned Healthy Active Oregon Training Institute Bend, Oregon May 10, 2007

  2. 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

  3. 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 RecreationDepts. (Springfield and Eugene)

  4. LCHAY Partners (cont’d) • YMCA • Boys’ and Girls’ Club • Head Start • WIC • LTD “Smart Ways to School” program • OSU Lane County Extension Service • Food for Lane County

  5. LCHAY Partners (cont’d) • U of O : city planning, media literacy, nutritional anthropology • Birth-to-Three • In all: > 140 people, > 25 agencies, organizations

  6. LCHAY Literature Review • Surgeon General’s “Call to Action”, 2001 • Institute of Medicine’s “Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance” • Oregon DHS Statewide Nutrition and Physical Activity Plans • American Public Health Association’s “Toolkit for Preventing Childhood Obesity” • UC Berkeley’s “Children and Weight: What Communities Can Do”

  7. LCHAY Mission • “To prevent childhood obesity by mobilizing our community to adopt active lifestyles and healthful nutrition”

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

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

  10. LCHAY Goals (cont’d) • 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.

  11. LCHAY’s Goals (cont’d) • 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

  12. LCHAY Goals (cont’d) • Identify and utilize culturally sensitive strategies which reduce the prevalence of obesity in our community

  13. LCHAY’s 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

  14. School BMI Results

  15. 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

  16. Advocacy for Policy Change • “Improving Access to Healthful Nutrition in Low-income Neighborhoods”

  17. LCHAY Staff: Interns (5/)7) • Sarah Cribbs, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, • Heidi Hascall, Development Coordinator for Volunteers in Medicine

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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. Lessons Learned • Initially: “We can’t do this alone” • Astonishment at how deeply and widely the topic of childhood obesity has touched our community/society

  22. Lessons Learned • Setting Limits: Prevention, Childhood • Power of collaboration

  23. 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

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

  25. Next Steps, Challenges • Organizational development: engaging & defining “membership” • Organizational status: 501 ( c ) 3 vs. “umbrella” • Avoiding “volunteer fatigue”

  26. Next Steps, Challenges • A “real” Board • Advocacy: engaging both the membership and the target population • Self-sustainability

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