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Eleven top policy-maker organizations that represent state, local and school district decision makers signed on to a leadership compact urging members to adopt policies designed to reduce childhood obesity rates, and to focus efforts on our most vulnerable children.

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Leadership for Healthy Communities Action Strategies Toolkit Reference List

The Leadership for Healthy Communities Action Strategies Toolkit is becoming an essential resource for state and local governments, school boards, advocacy groups, academics and concerned citizens. 
 
Below are influential organizations and decision makers that have referenced the toolkit:

African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN):
http://www.aacorn.org/Comm-1396.html

American Academy of Pediatrics:
http://www.aap.org/sections/socp/Resources05082009.pdf

American Planning Association – featured in Essential Info Packet EIP-14, Planning, Public Health, and Physical Activity:
http://www.planning.org/apastore/Search/Default.aspx?p=3851

Association for Community Health Improvement:
http://www.communityhlth.org/communityhlth/resources/hlthycommunities.html

Baltimore Spokes:
http://www.baltimorespokes.org/article.php?story=2009051413023072

Complete Streets Coalition – June 2009 newsletter:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5184/t/6237/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1093459&t=#resources

Convergence Partnership:
http://www.convergencepartnership.org/site/c.fhLOK6PELmF/b.3917607/k.BB87/News_and_Resources.htm

Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity:
http://www.reversechildhoodobesity.org/content/school-nutrition
http://www.reversechildhoodobesity.org/content/healthy-foods-home
http://www.reversechildhoodobesity.org/content/physical-activity-school
http://www.reversechildhoodobesity.org/content/community-design-recreation
http://www.reversechildhoodobesity.org/content/media-marketing

Farm to School and School Garden Research Consortium:
http://datadorksunite.ning.com/profiles/blogs/rwjf-toolkit-recommends-farm

Florida Children's Services Council:
http://www.floridacsc.org/events/newsletters/FCSCNewsUpdate20090610.html

Gaston Rehab Associates, Inc.
http://gastonrehabassociates.typepad.com/gaston_rehab_associates_i/2009/07/leadership-for-healthy-communities.html

Green Changemakers:
http://green-changemakers.blogspot.com/2009/07/leadership-for-healthy-communities.html

Health Equity Alliance of Tallahassee
http://healthequity.us/2009/08/05/action-strategies-toolkit-from-rwjf/

Healthcare Foundation of Greater Kansas City:
http://www.healthcare4kc.org/resources.aspx

Illinois Nutrition Education and Training Program:
http://www.kidseatwell.org/whats-new.htm

Iowa Department of Economic Development:
http://www.iowalifechanging.com/community/greenetwork/march2009.aspx

Lifestyle Information Network, Ontario, Canada:
http://lin.ca/resource-details/14435

Montana Nutrition and Physical Activity Program:
http://montananapa.org/resource.html

Metro Denver Health and Wellness Commission:
http://www.mdhwc.org/Downloads/leanandgreen/RG-%20Addtl%20Resources.pdf

National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions:
http://www.childrenshospitals.net/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Homepage&CONTENTID=44422&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm#Resources_for_Policy_Makers

National School Boards Association (NSBA), “Improving Child Nutrition Programs to Reduce Childhood Obesity”, Formal Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States House of Representatives, May 14, 2009:
http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/testimony/20090514ReginaldFeltonTestimony.pdf

New York Academy of Medicine's blog:
http://urbanhealthtoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/action-strategies-toolkit-guide-for.html

New York State Department of Health:
http://www.health.state.ny.us/prevention/prevention_agenda/physical_activity_and_nutrition/

Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS):
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:VNWn5ok3Ve8J:www.nucats.northwestern.edu/

NPLAN:
http://nplanonline.org/news/nplan-resources-referenced-leadership-healthy-communities-toolkit

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:
http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=42514

Safe Routes to School – July 2009 newsletter:
http://www.saferoutespartnership.org/mediacenter/6621/266703/

Safe Routes to School National Partnership:
http://www.saferoutespartnership.org/state/5764

ShapeUp San Francisco:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/shapeupsf_index.asp?id=58062
Smart Growth Network:
http://www.smartgrowth.org/news/article.asp?art=7146&state=52&res=1152

Texas Department of State Health Services:
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/schoolhealth/fridaybeat/2009/20090515.doc

Tipping the Scales for Better Health, a project of the Northern Virginia Healthy Kids Coalition:
http://www.tippingthescales.net/neighborhood/neighborhoodhome.html

Center for Public Policy and Administration, University of Utah:
http://www.imakenews.com/cppa/e_article001444898.cfm

University of Washington:
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/PM%205-15-09%20PDF%20template%20FINAL%20without%20password%20protection.pdf

Urbanicity, a resource for local governments and urban development worldwide:
http://www.urbanicity.org/Site/News/June09.aspx
http://www.urbanicityalerts.org/urbanicityalerts/CMBJune09.htm

Whatcom County:
http://www.whatcomcounts.org/whatcom/modules.php?op=modload&name=Article&file=articles&artid=294

 

 

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