This guide for policy-makers features programs and policy interventions that have proved effective in a variety of areas, including nutrition, obesity, and physical activity.
www.thecommunityguide.org/index.html

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity in the United States: Implementation and Measurement Guide
This report identifies 24 recommendations that can be implemented at the community level and suggested measurements. The report’s recommendations apply to both children and adults, and include those that can take place during school hours.
www.cdc.gov/obesity/downloads/community_strategies_guide.pdf

Convergence Partnership, Promising Strategies for Creating Healthy Eating and Active Living Environments
This report offers a comprehensive and cross-cutting review of policy strategies and program recommendations to promote environments conducive to healthy eating and active living.
http://www.convergencepartnership.org/atf/cf/%7B245A9B44-6DED-4ABD-A392-AE583809E350%7D/CP_Promising%20Strategies_printed.pdf

Institute of Medicine, Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity
This report identifies 58 action steps for local government leaders, with 12 slated as most promising. The IOM report is specifically focused on strategies likely to directly affect children and that take place outside of the school day.  It also contains examples of policies and programs that local governments have successfully adopted and implemented.
www.iom.edu/Reports/2009/ChildhoodObesityPreventionLocalGovernments.aspx

Institute of Medicine, Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance
This report, which was created in response to a request from Congress for a prevention-oriented action plan to tackle the alarming rise in childhood obesity, provides a broad-based examination of the nature, extent and consequences of obesity in U.S. children and youth, including the social, environmental and dietary factors responsible for its increased prevalence.
www.iom.edu/Reports/2004/Preventing-Childhood-Obesity-Health-in-the-Balance.aspx

Institute of Medicine, Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up?
This report examines the progress made by obesity prevention initiatives in the United States since the release of the report Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance two years earlier.
www.iom.edu/Reports/2006/Progress-in-Preventing-Childhood-Obesity--How-Do-We-Measure-Up.aspx

National Conference of State Legislatures, Promoting Healthy Communities and Reducing Childhood Obesity: Legislative Options
This report summarizes state legislation proposed and passed during 2007 and 2008 related to healthy eating, physical activity, healthy community design and access to healthy food, divided into 17 topic areas.
www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=18135

National Governors Association, Shaping a Healthier Generation: Successful State Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity
This report offers direction to governors and other policy-makers attempting to craft children’s health policies that prevent obesity and advance the well-being of families in the child care, educational, community and health care settings.
http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/0909HEALTHIERGENERATION.PDF

National League of Cities, Combating Childhood Obesity Action Kit for Municipal Leaders
This toolkit provides mayors and city council members with policy options for addressing childhood obesity at the city level and includes relevant facts and successful examples.
www.leadershipforhealthycommunities.org/images/stories/iyefchildhoodobesityactionkit.pdf

Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, F as in Fat 2009: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America
The most recent edition of this annual report provides an extensive overview of federal and state-by-state obesity trends, policies and statistics, as well as recommended action steps at all levels.
www.healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2009/

United States Conference of Mayors, Mayors’ Guide to Fighting Childhood Obesity
This guide provides suggested action steps that mayors and other local government leaders can take to address the childhood obesity epidemic in their communities in three areas: the community food environment, the physical environment, and the school and out-of-school environment.
www.usmayors.org/chhs/healthycities/documents/guide-200908.pdf