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Celebrating 15 Years of CLOCC
Happy New Year and welcome to our 15th year as a consortium!
We should all be quite proud of our history and accomplishments. Together, we have increased visibility of and attention to childhood obesity across many disciplines and in every Chicago community. We have seen important advances in research, policy, and practice. While rates remain high (and may still be increasing in lower-income communities of color and at the highest extremes of the BMI continuum) we have seen significant improvements in environments where children live, learn, and play. Over the coming year you will see and, hopefully, contribute to our celebration of all that we have done through 15 years of perseverance and collaboration.
We start the year with an invitation to build CLOCC's "Childhood Obesity Prevention Hall of Fame" and we share our own pick on our facebook page. We welcome you to contribute your thoughts on the most significant influences on the issue. We also are excited to share our staff's "15 for the future" individual and organizational commitments to advance obesity prevention, and ask you to join in making and sharing your own commitments. Finally, we mark our 15th year with a redesigned newsletter for easier reading on mobile devices.
We hope you will join in our celebration and offer a hearty congratulations to us all! Happy 15th!
Sincerely,
Adam Becker, PhD, MPH
Executive Director, CLOCC
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Help Build CLOCC's
Childhood Obesity Prevention
Hall of Fame
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Submit a Photo and Vote for the Most Important Advancements in Obesity Prevention From the Last 15 Years
In the 15 years since CLOCC was founded, there have been significant advancements in what we know about childhood obesity and the most effective strategies for preventing it. People, policies, scientific discoveries, reports, events and more have had significant influence on how we think and what we do about this epidemic.
To commemorate our 15 years together, we are building our very own virtual "Childhood Obesity Prevention Hall of Fame." We invite CLOCC partners to help cultivate a list of the 15 things that have had the greatest impact on our field and our work over the last 15 years.
To contribute a candidate for the Hall of Fame, find or create a photo or visual representation of your submission and post it to CLOCC's facebook page with a brief description. We'll add it to the Hall of Fame gallery. You can also tweet a contribution using the hashtag
#CLOCCat15. Each month, we will ask visitors to
CLOCC's facebook page to vote for their favorites using the "like" feature. The photo with the most likes in the gallery at the end of each month will be inducted into our Childhood Obesity Prevention Hall of Fame, which will be unveiled at CLOCC's December Quarterly Meeting.
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Share Your 15 for the FUTURE
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Share 15 Ways YOU can Move Obesity Prevention Forward in 2017
The most important celebrations are the ones yet to come, when we change the course of childhood obesity together. We want CLOCC partners to tell us 15 things that YOU will do in 2017 to advance obesity prevention...
15 for the Future!
Your list can include commitments in your personal or professional life, or things that you will tackle as an organization. For example, CLOCC staff built their own list, which includes:
- Hold monthly or weekly walking meetings
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Build a CLOCC staff and partner contingent to ride at least 15 miles of Bike the Drive
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Commit to educate a new generation of public health professionals about obesity prevention
Submit your list on CLOCC's facebook page or email it to [email protected]. All year long, we will highlight your creative suggestions in our newsletter and social media pages and, of course, give you all the credit. You can also tweet any portion of your list with the hashtag #CLOCCat15.
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Call to Action! Tell Springfield to Fund Health in Illinois by Supporting a Sugary Dring Tax
From the Illinois Alliance to Prevent Obesity, Monday, January 9, 2017:
Senate leadership in Illinois has proposed a bi-partisan budget plan. What's more encouraging is that the proposed sugary-drink tax is included in the plan as a revenue source (Senate Amendment 001 to Senate Bill 0523). However, the plan currently does not include putting any of the revenue into a Wellness Fund.
Our state can't have a balanced budget without some new revenue sources. Alone, a sugary drink tax will not solve our budget issues, but it will help provide revenue and more importantly help to improve the health of our state's residents.
Fifty percent of added sugar consumed by Americans comes from sugary drinks, which are linked to diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses. A sugary drink tax is a particularly important source of new revenue as it will save lives, relieve immeasurable suffering and help close a major drain on our state budget, health care system and economy. It can have an even larger impact if the funds go to health and not the General Revenue Fund.
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CLOCC's Annual Blueprint Survey is Open
Once a year, the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children asks partners to highlight your organization's work in obesity prevention. The Blueprint Survey site is now live (click the button below to access the site). The Survey allows us to measure Chicago's collective progress relative to objectives in the
Blueprint for Accelerating Progress in Childhood Obesity Prevention in Chicago.
We are interested in ALL activity related to this work, including - but not limited to - programs, research and direct service. We will also frame our progress in the context of the health and obesity prevention strategies laid out in Healthy Chicago 2.0.
The Blueprint identifies goals and recommendations for action in six focus areas:
- Food and Beverage Access
- Physical Activity and the Built Environment
- Schools
- Early Childhood
- Business Sector and Industry Practices
- Health Promotion and Public Education
The Blueprint is meant to be a guide for childhood obesity prevention work in Chicago, with the idea that our collective work as a consortium will help to address these goals.
The survey site will be live through Friday, January 20, 2017. Thank you to those who have already completed this year's survey! We know these surveys require your valuable time and effort and we thank you in advance for your participation.
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CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN THE NEWS
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FUNDING & RECOGNITION OPPORTUNITIES
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From the Build Healthy Places Network, t
he Culture of Health Leaders Program
is now accepting applications for the 2017-19 cohort. This 3-year leadership development program offers a $20,000 stipend annually for up to 50 participants. The call for applications is open and continues through
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Chicago Department of Public Health has announced the Request for Proposal (RFP) to implement
PlayStreets Chicago in 2017. PlayStreets is a citywide initiative providing 150 pop-up play spaces for children and their families to come together, be safe and get active during the summer. These free events empower communities to come together, address barriers and provide children and adults with safe, supervised spaces to enjoy outdoor activities, such as sports, games, exercise and dancing on a consistent and regular basis. Proposals are due by January 24, 2017.
Click here for more information.
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T
he Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC) is a nationally recognized leader for community-based obesity prevention. We support, coordinate, and unite partners to promote healthy and active lifestyles for children and families. Our multi-sector approach emerged in Chicago and can be adapted for use anywhere.
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