A Houston/Harris County Childhood Obesity Prevention Collaborative 
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Harriet & Joe Foster YMCA Supporting Healthy LivingArticle1

The Harriet and Joe Foster YMCA was awarded $2500 for providing leadership in conducting the Healthy Living Matters neighborhood Community Healthy Living Index (CHLI) for this area. The award was used to support healthy living efforts outlined in their community action plan, to include purchasing equipment, soil, materials and fund maintenance costs to build two 4x8 block gardens. The gardens will be used to teach youth about healthy eating. The youth will be responsible for growing plants from the seed, yielding crops, and maintaining the garden in general. Staff will also send children home with seeds to plant gardens of their own at home, along with healthy eating recipes using the crops they have yielded.     

 

     

In addition, the Harriet and Joe Foster YMCA after school site was awarded with $500 to help support the healthy living project goals outlined in the action plan. They teamed up with Garden Oaks Elementary to purchase Coordinated Approach To Child Health (CATCH) equipment to help increase physical activity among students. The equipment is being incorporated into a 45 minute physical activity plan and the kids are having a blast using them!

 
HLM Collaborative Meeting Highlights -  Focus on Built Environment Article2

HLM had a really great 2nd Quarter meeting last month.  We had a record attendance of 50 Collaborative members and friends of HLM!

 
The meeting primarily focused on the built environment aspect of the HLM Community Action Plan with presentations from Houston Parks Board, Houston Tomorrow and HCPHES' Environmental Public Health Division. Chris Browne, HLM Co-Chair, facilitated a Charrette Framework Development Exercise that will help HLM with future community charrettes for integrating neighborhoods with the Bayou Greenways. 
 
 
In addition, Tim Schauer provided an update on the 84th Texas State Legislative Session.  Dr. Ann Smith-Barnes ended the Collaborative meeting with a continuation of the HLM Challenge: "What can you do to influence healthy choices in your sphere of influence?

For more details, see the attached Collaborative Meeting Highlights.
Featured Resource: CDC Community Health Improvement (CHI) Navigator FeaturedResource

 

The CDC CHI Navigator is a website for people who lead or participate in community health improvement work within hospitals and health systems, public health agencies, and other community organizations. It is a one-stop shop that offers community stakeholders vetted tools and resources around the following target risk factors: 
- Obesity 
- Unhealthy diet 
- Physical inactivity 
- High blood pressure 
- High cholesterol 
- Diabetes 
- Tobacco use and exposure 
UPCOMING EVENTS Events
 

Webinar: Million Hearts and Sodium: Making Sense of the Science and Translation to Practice 

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 

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It's Time Texas Summit 

Monday, June 15 - Tuesday, June 16, 2015

JW Marriott Austin, Austin, TX 

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National School-Based Health Care Convention
Tuesday, June 16 - Friday, June 19, 2015
JW Marriott Austin, Austin, TX

HLM-Pasadena Community Task Force Meeting 

Thursday, June 18, 2015 from 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Pasadena City Hall, Pasadena, TX     

For more information, contact Katie Chennisi  

    

Disparities in Health in America 

Monday, June 22  - Friday, June 27, 2015 

Prairie View A&M College of Nursing, Houston, TX 

More information 

 

To view more events, visit our Calendar of Events webpage