"CLOCC: Healthy at Home" Online Resources Expanded
This past April, "CLOCC: Healthy at Home" was introduced to provide guidelines for families and kids who were social distancing as a collective response to COVID-19. Although Illinois continues to progress with efforts against the spread of coronavirus, many summer camps and childcare settings are closed or operating at reduced capacity. In response to these summer challenges, CLOCC will continue to refresh the Healthy at Home page as an easy resource for parents, caregivers, families, and partners to support kids’ nutrition and physical activity.
You’ll find some quick tips and tricks which reflect our
5-4-3-2-1 Go!® message, and in coming weeks we will add resources specifically for parents who are filling summer caregiver roles. Watch our Twitter feed, @CLOCC_Chicago, for updates, and feel free to contact us if you have any questions: info@CLOCC.net. This initiative is funded in part through the generous support of Kohl’s Cares.
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ICAAP Flyers Encourage Parents & Caregivers to Seek Routine Healthcare
COVID-19 has presented additional challenges in accessing healthcare for many of Chicago’s children. While non-emergent healthcare provision has been reinstated, there remain many safety concerns. In many cases, routine doctor visits can be a critical opportunity to identify or managing a childhood obesity concern. To this end, the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (ICAAP) has produced a flyer to help reassure families that it is important to resume care. It is available in English and Spanish versions using the adjacent links.
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National Organizations Urged to Support INVEST Act
via Safe Routes Partnership
Join the League of American Bicyclists, American Heart Association, and Safe Routes Partnership in signing your organization (national orgs only)
to a letter in support of the
INVEST Act. It will go to the House of Representatives and asks them to vote in favor of the bill.
After more than 24 hours and 300+ amendments, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee recently passed the INVEST in America Act. An already good bill got even better with the
addition of several amendments addressing safety, Safe Routes to School, and Complete Streets. The bill next goes to the full House for a vote, anticipated on July 1.
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Intro to Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program and Funding Eligibility Criteria (Webinar)
Wednesday, July 1, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
In partnership with the Active Transportation Alliance, this webinar will provide Illinois planners an introduction to the Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program (ITEP), which has additional funding in 2020 to support biking and walking infrastructure projects. The webinar is the first of a three-part series to help build the capacity of communities to successfully apply for ITEP funds. (
See event flyer)
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 1, 2020, 11:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
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Transportation Planner/Policy Analyst: CMAP
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) is hiring an Associate
Transportation Planner or Policy Analyst to carry out initiatives related to traffic safety and the agency’s regional plan. CMAP and its partners are implementing ON TO 2050, a new comprehensive plan to help the seven counties and 284 communities of northeastern Illinois implement strategies that address transportation, housing, economic development, open space, the environment, and other quality-of-life issues. These strategies are emphasized through three overarching principles: Inclusive Growth, Resilience and Prioritized Investment.
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CLOCC focuses upstream to identify the fundamental root causes of obesity, and to broaden the scope of our obesity prevention strategies. This work draws from local and national attention to health equity and social influencers of health, such as immigration, education, poverty and racism, all of which have an impact on people's ability to eat healthy and be active where they live, work, learn, and play. If you have comments or questions about this focus, we invite you to reach out to info@clocc.net.
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CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN THE MEDIA
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RESOURCES: CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
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As our public health community responds collectively to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, CLOCC will work to provide partners with timely, useful information to help leaders, organizations and families navigate uncharted waters. Suggestions for this newsletter feature can be forwarded to info@clocc.net.
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Do you have questions about COVID-19? Lurie Children's COVID-19 Call Center is now OPEN. You can call (312) 227-5300 and speak with a Lurie Children's nurse with questions related to testing criteria, symptoms, donations, or general information. The Call Center is available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. and on weekends from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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GO-TO SOURCES FOR CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) INFORMATION:
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RESEARCH AND REPORTS RELATED TO COVID-19 AND OBESITY
FOOD ACCESS
- Food Systems Leadership Network COVID-19 Response Group: The Wallace Center is launching a new national listserv – the Food Systems Leadership Network COVID-19 Response Group. This listserv, unique among the many opportunities food systems leaders have to connect and share information and resources, is focused specifically on identifying, amplifying, and replicating the solutions, innovations, and collaborations that are emerging in communities across the US in response to and in the wake of COVID-19.
RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION & CHILD CARE
- Chicago Early Learning has created an online platform with early learning activities and resources all in one place called Chicago PrE-Learning. The site will guide families in their efforts to continue their child’s educational development from home and features regularly updated educational activities for early learners of all ages.
- The Chicago Citywide Literacy Coalition has amassed a comprehensive list of digital education resources, organized by subject and supplemented with links to digital support services. While CCLC focuses on adult education, many resources listed are applicable to families and head-of-households.
- Pilot Light’s Family Resources are designed for parents and children to provide a time of learning and deeper connection through the act of sharing and making food. This library of resources will continue to grow and include Family Lessons in both English and Spanish, Family Meal Videos, recipes, and more as a way to bring food education into homes.
- Health at Home Resources (Updated) from CATCH.ORG: As America and the world faces the enormous challenges of the Coronavirus pandemic, teachers are answering the call to meet the needs of their students in new and creative ways with very little time to prepare. CATCH Global Foundation assembled these lessons and resources to help teachers continue to provide health education, nutrition education and physical activity instruction to their students remotely.
- Common Threads supports educators through the use of our digital learning platform, Common Bytes, and is providing free curriculum and training access to everyone. Our students’ health, safety, and wellbeing are our top priority and we will do everything we can to work with local school districts and community partners during this time.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- ChangeLab Solutions is maintaining a library of COVID-19 resource material that includes sections on legal preparedness, food security, housing, violence prevention and more.
- The Night Ministry continues to provide critical health, housing and food services for Chicago's youth and adult homeless population. Operations have been updated to reflect the challenges of - and response to - COVID-19.
- Access Living has introduced a compendium of COVID-19 resources for the disability community, with information tailored to additional audiences including those caring for elders, the LGBTQ community, sex workers and people with high-risk comorbidities. This page will be updated routinely during the crisis.
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FUNDING AND RECOGNITION OPPORTUNITIES
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- Healthy Eating Research (HER) has announced a special funding opportunity providing a limited amount of funding for COVID-19 related rapid-response research projects to explore the impact of the pandemic on nutrition and diet quality, food security, and related health consequences for children and families. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for federal nutrition programs has become more apparent with the closing of schools and childcare centers across the country coupled with a loss of critical family income and rising unemployment. The goal is to inform decision-making regarding innovative policies and/or programs during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. HER intends to fund lower cost rapid-response research projects, including issue briefs, papers, research reviews, and small studies. More information can be found on HER’s website. Deadline, July 1st.
- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), Office of Health Promotion, will provide funding to one public or private not-for-profit entity for the purpose of implementing process and system changes regarding use of community health workers (CHWs) to identify and assist in the management of obesity in cancer survivors within a program called Cancer Survivorship Lifestyle Change Program (LCP). CHWs are trained frontline health workers who serve as a bridge between communities and healthcare systems. They are from, or have a close understanding of, the community in which they serve. They often receive on-the-job training. The granted organization may work with existing CHWs or hire CHWs to act in this role. CHWs may work alone or as part of an intervention team that includes other healthcare professionals. The granted organization will use CHWs to identify cancer survivors (not currently in active treatment) who are overweight or obese, screen them for readiness to change, and refer and/or deliver CDC recognized lifestyle change and/or disease self-management programs to them. Programs can be offered in individual or group settings via multiple modalities (i.e. in person, telephone, and/or online forums).The funding opportunity notice is available through the IDPH EGrAMS site.
- CDC recently announced the Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences Data to Action notice of funding opportunity. The goals of the cooperative agreement is designed to address state-specific needs related to the prevention of adverse childhood experiences with a focus on building surveillance infrastructure and the implementation of evidence-based prevention strategies. The deadline to apply is July 13th.
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