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A concrete menu of strategies designed to help you improve nutrition and activity environments on a local level
An online searchable database of promising local policies that affect nutrition and physical activity
In-depth media analysis to help you influence public discussion on nutrition, physical activity, and related chronic diseases
A toolkit for adopting the Taking Action Recommendations in your community
A look at how policy can be a tool to help you make lasting changes to nutrition and physical activity environments

STRATEGIC ALLIANCE

c/o Prevention Institute

221 Oak Street

Oakland, CA 94607
Tel: 510.444.7738
Fax: 510.663.1280

 

The Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments (Strategic Alliance) is a coalition of nutrition and physical activity advocates in California. The Strategic Alliance is shifting the debate on nutrition and physical activity away from a primary focus on personal responsibility and individual choice to one that examines corporate and government practices and the role of the environment in shaping eating and activity behaviors. The Alliance's goal is to benefit the health and wellness of all California residents by promoting environmental solutions and institutional and government policies and practices that support healthy eating and activity. The Strategic Alliance focuses its work on:

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HIGHLIGHTS  

Governor's Summit  3 Year Anniversary 9/15/08

Help wish Governor Schwarzennegger a "Happy Anniversary." Urge him to sign healthy food and activity legislation into law. Click here to find out how.

 

Brochures...Fast Food's Answer to Obesity!

Find out what happens when customers try to decipher nutrition brochures from fast food chains...

 
School’s Out…Who Ate? A Report on Summer Nutrition in California Highlights community strategies and policy opportunities to increase access to the Summer Food Service Program  

Starved for Access: Life in Rural America’s Food Deserts

Provides policy options to address limited food access in many rural communities

 
UPCOMING EVENTS  

Violence Prevention & and Creating Healthy Food and Activity Environments: Exploring Opportunities for Convergence

Please join the Strategic Alliance and Prevention Institute for a web conference on October 10th, 2008 to better understand the links between violence prevention and healthy eating and active living efforts.

 

Partnering with Local Agencies to Combat Global Warming

3 upcoming workshops in August and September in Southern CA

 
 
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