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Step 3
Educate yourselves and learn from others. Invite guest speakers from inside and outside the community to share their expertise, search the web for information about similar initiatives in other states, and compile examples of policies and environmental change strategies that have been successful in other places.
Expectations:
Organize and participate in educational events to learn from others within and outside of your community. Learn about how others have made changes in policies and the environment.
Document the number and types of educational events organized and attended.
Resources:
What do we want? How can we make it happen? Planning and Executing a
Policy Change Strategy
This presentation offers a very clear explanation of policy and a step-by-step
process for developing and implementing policy change.
The Power of
Stories: From Personal Narratives to Community Action
Part of preparing to engage key stakeholders and getting the community to
support your efforts is knowing how to effectively tell your story. This
presentation provides some insight on how to do just that.
Center
for Obesity Prevention & Policy Research
This is a searchable database of Missouri health policies that have been
written, and in some cases implemented. The database allows for searches
according to policy topic, region of the state, county and environment.
ENACT Local Policy Database
This is a searchable database of National policies about nutrition and physical
activity. This database allows for searches by topic, environment, certain
keywords, state, jurisdiction and year of policy development.
National
Association of Counties
This site provides access to a searchable database that can provide demographic
information on particular areas with an unpaid subscription. Paying subscribers
acquire access to more in-depth searchable database functions.
Mayors’ Guide to Fighting Childhood Obesity
This guide was developed to educate mayors about specific policies they
can adopt in their communities to address childhood obesity in underserved
populations.
National League of Cities Policy Tool Kit
This PDF was created to help municipal leaders recognize and effectively
address childhood obesity issues through policy change
NCSL Healthy Community Design Resources
This portion of the National Conference of State Legislatures site provides
the most recent news and policy options for healthy communities.
National Association of State Boards of Education
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Student Health Archive
This link connects to the most recent information from NASBE on student health policies. - State School Healthy Policy Database
This link connects to a searchable database within NASBE on school policies regarding health and healthy environments, searchable by state.
Examples of Initiatives
- Northeast
Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative
The Northeast Iowa Food & Fitness Initiative brought several counties in NE Iowa together with the goal of ensuring that the people in the region have access to healthy, locally grown foods and abundant opportunities for physical activity every day. Follow the link to learn more about what is going on in Iowa and get ideas for helping your own community! - Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities
“Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) whose primary goal is to implement healthy eating and active living policy and environmental change initiatives that can support healthier communities for children and families across the U.S.” Follow this link to learn more and get ideas for your community. -
Healthy and Active Communities
Operated by the Missouri Foundation for Health, the Healthy & Active Communities Initiative works through the convening of traditional and non-traditional partners to serve as a catalyst to empower communities to increase access to physical activity and nutrition, and influence individual and societal attitudes toward maintaining healthy lifestyles. HLI was created in part by collaboration with the Missouri Foundation for Health. Follow this link to learn more about this initiative and what is happening in different areas of Missouri.
