Reminder: Our next Shape Up Coalition meeting is tomorrow, July 9, 2008 from 2-3:30 PM at 1390 Market St., Suite 900 .
In this issue:
1. Endorsing Sunday Streets
2. "How to Engage Teens During Out-of-School Time"
3. More Hot Topics in Nutrition Conference: Aug 13 and 14
4. Pedestrian Safety and Advocacy Conference: Aug 23, 2008
5. Berkeley Student Volunteers Available
6. Support Menu Labeling (SB 1420)
1. Endorsing Sunday Streets (back to top)
Shape Up SF is currently working on an exciting pilot project called Sunday Streets that will bring physical activity space to San Francisco neighborhoods on Sunday mornings this summer and fall These Sunday morning activities will create a route for thousands of local families, kids and adults to walk, jog, and bike, as well as participate in group exercise. The program will offer safe and free activities that will attract people from throughout the city and the entire Bay Area. It represents our city's next innovative step toward a healthier community.
The goal of Sunday Streets is to help San Francisco residents realize that opportunities for physical activity are all around and that being physically active doesn't have to cost anything except a commitment to being healthy. In order to accomplish our goal, we need the endorsement of city departments and agencies, small businesses, community-based and grassroots organizations.
As a member of Shape Up SF, we are seeking the endorsement of the organizations that you represent. By endorsing Sunday Streets, your organization will commit to one or more of the following criteria:
" Actively support Sunday Streets by reaching out to your organization's constituents
" Provide financial or in-kind donations to help cover the costs of the event
" Provide volunteers to help staff the event
" Provide programming or demonstration of physical activity or healthy eating
" Provide logistical support on the day of the event
Please visit our Sunday Streets website to see the current endorsing organizations and officials. We hope we can add yours too!
If your organization would like to endorse Sunday Streets, please contact Marianne Szeto at 415-581-2430 or marianne.szeto@sfdph.org with a description of how your organization will help accomplish the goal of Sunday Streets.
2. "How to Engage Teens During Out-of-School Time" (back to top)
The San Francisco Beacon Initiative, the San Francisco's Department of Children, Youth & Their Families, & the Bay Area Partnership for Children and Youth cordially invite you to:
"How to Engage Teens During Out-of-School Time"
A presentation by Jeff Jordan, President of Rescue Social Change Group, on how other cities have effectively marketed programs to hard-to-reach teens.
When: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 from 1 to 3 p.m.
Where: SF LGBT Center @ 1800 Market St., San Francisco
(Public Transit: Take BART to SF Civic Center, then transfer to Muni Metro lines J,K,L,M,N or the F street car. Also accessible from MUNI bus lines 6,7,9, 10, 14, 21, 26, 47, 49, 66 and 71.)
Due to space limitations, this event is by invitation only. If you are not able to attend, we would appreciate you passing the invitation on to one of your colleagues who can represent your organization. Please register for the event going to this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=aQ1inrHK5kMaiLGINktZtA_3d_3d
Rescue Social Change Group has worked in Chicago, Providence and other communities to develop strategies–from social branding to creating networks of providers – that engage the teens that are least likely to participate in out-of-school time activities, such as clubs, career preparation, service, academic, social and cultural programs.
Come join this presentation to stakeholders from city agencies, the school district, foundations, and a variety of community-based organizations to learn about Rescue Social Change Group's efforts in other communities to:
Combine change strategy with marketing principles to develop approaches that increase program participation, retention, and impact;
Elevate the proportion of high-risk teens that choose to participate in programs, and
Use out-of-school time programs as an opportunity to influence a community's entire youth culture
For more information about the Rescue Social Change Group, visit their website at www.rescuescg.com.
For more information about the event, please contact: Sandra Naughton at DCYF at snaughton@dcyf.org
-SF Beacon Initiative, San Francisco's Department of Children, Youth & Their Families, and the Bay Area Partnership
3. More Hot Topics in Nutrition Conference: Aug 13 and 14 (back to top)
Dates: August 13 and 14, 2008
Location: South San Francisco Conference Center
View Flyer
View Registration form
4. Pedestrian Safety & Advocacy Conference (back to top)
Friday, August 22nd & Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Sacramento, California (Street Location to be announced)
Sponsored by
Calif. Pedestrian Advisory Committee (CalPED), California WALKS & SHSP Challenge Area 8 Committee
with funding from an California Office of Traffic Safety grant, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to Caltrans
"How can CalPED, California WALKS and the SHSP Challenge 8 Committee support and accelerate Implementation of the California Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)?" is the idea behind this conference. Many pedestrian advocates and professionals have been involved in numerous "Challenge Area" Committees of the SHSP, most notably Challenge Area 8 – Making Walking & Street Crossing Safer (CA8) & Challenge Area 7 Improve Intersection & Interchange Safety for Roadway Users (CA7).
The Walking CA8 Committee is in the process of updating the action plans on the 8 measures adopted for Implementation of SHSP including Pedestrian Safety Action Plans, Safe Routes to Schools, Complete Streets, a Pedestrian Data program, Ped Friendly Pavement Markings and a new Caltrans Pedestrian Safety Improvement Program (infrastructure funding) .
This Conference agenda for Friday, August 22 will focus on SHSP walking safety measures by
getting reports on what is in process;
giving input to accelerate the implementation of these measures; and
determining the roles of CalPED and California WALKS in assisting advocates and Caltrans in this effort.
For members of CalPED, this conference will be considered a regular Committee meeting Breakout space will be provided for CalPED if needed to consider specific CalPED actions.
The Conference's agenda for Saturday, August 23 will focus on pedestrian advocacy issues and needs locally, regionally and statewide.
Please visit the SHSP website for more SHSP information: http://www.dot.ca.gov/SHSP/ http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/survey/SHSP/ISHSP-Final-04212008.pdf – CA7-8 at pp.24-25.
For Conference information, contact Wendy Alfsen, California WALKS, 510-883-9725, wendyalfsen@gmail.com. Registration details to follow. Hope you will join us!
Bob Planthold Richard Haggstrom Anne Geraghty Wendy Alfsen
CalPED Caltrans Pedestrian Programs WALKSacramento California WALKS
Co-Chair SHSP CA8 Co-Chair SHSP CA8 Co-Chair Conference Organizer
5. VOLUNTEERS AVAILABLE: Berkeley students looking for volunteer needs assessment work (back to top)
The University of California at Berkeley's school of public health is offering a needs assessment course to master's-level students this fall. The course will require enrolled students to volunteer for a community needs assessment project. They will work in pairs or teams of three and will be expected to volunteer eight hours every week for 2.5 months between September and late November. The school is helping pair these students with agencies that conduct needs assessment work. If you or your project is interested in working with student volunteers, contact Obiel Leyva at (510) 643-7541 or obiel@berkeley.edu.
6. Support Menu Labeling (SB 1420) (back to top)
Dear Colleague,
There is still time to sign on! We need your help with an important nutrition policy working its way through the state legislature. I hope you will join the many health organizations in California who support SB 1420, which would have fast-food and other chain restaurants list calories and other key nutrition information on menus (for a list of supporting organizations, see http://www.publichealthadvocacy.org/PDFs/SB1420SupportList.pdf). The only real opposition this bill faces is from the restaurant industry, but they are pulling out all the stops to weaken the menu labeling bill or kill it all together.
California legislators need to hear from you that nutrition professionals support this common-sense nutrition measure. You can indicate your support by signing on to this letter to the bill sponsor, Senator Padilla, which is included below. To sign on, simply email droberts@cspinet.org and provide your full name, credentials, profession, city and state. For more information about the California menu labeling bill, feel free to contact me or visit http://www.publichealthadvocacy.org/legislation.html.
Also, please pass this message on to other nutrition professionals you know in California and encourage them to sign on.
Thank you for your consideration of this matter and (I hope) for supporting menu labeling in California.
Margo
Margo G. Wootan, D.Sc.
Director, Nutrition Policy
Center for Science in the Public Interest
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Senator Alex Padilla
California State Senate
State Capitol, Room 4032
Sacramento, CA 95814
Dear Senator Padilla:
We, the undersigned nutrition professionals, strongly support your menu labeling bill, SB 1420, which would require calorie and other important nutrition information on menus and menu boards at fast-food and other chain restaurants. In addition, we oppose AB 2572 because to be useful, nutrition information needs to be provided in a consistent format so people know where to find it, using methods that are easy to read and use.
We are concerned that although Californians eat out more than ever before, few restaurants provide nutrition information at the point of ordering. Half of large chain restaurants do not provide any nutrition information to their customers. Most of the restaurants that do provide nutrition information do so on websites, tray liners or fast-food packages, which are not available at the point of ordering, or posters or brochures, which can be hard-to-find and difficult-to-read.
In fact, a large study of over 11,000 diners at 275 restaurants found that other than at Subway, an average of just 3% of customers reported seeing calorie information at restaurants that provide it.
Without nutrition information, it is difficult to compare options and make informed decisions. A White Chocolate Mocha at Starbucks has six times as many calories as a nonfat Cappuccino. A Burger King Tendercrisp Chicken Sandwich (790 calories) has more calories than a Whopper (670 calories).
As a result, people often consume more calories, fat, and salt at restaurants than they realize. This can be particularly problematic for people who watch what they eat to manage health conditions, such as people with diabetes, who need carbohydrate counts to manage their blood sugar, people with high blood pressure who need sodium information, and people with high cholesterol or heart disease, who need saturated and trans fat numbers in order to follow their dietitian's or doctor's advice.
Studies link eating out to higher caloric intakes and higher body weights. For example, children eat almost twice as many calories when they eat a meal at a restaurant compared to at home. Women who eat out more than five times a week eat 300 more calories on average each day compared to women who eat out less often. Away-from-home foods also provide more saturated fat, but fewer nutrients, like calcium and fiber, than foods prepared at home.
Menu labeling would give Californians an important new tool to help them eat well and maintain a healthy weight. It would provide information that would allow people to take responsibility for their own health and make more informed decisions for a significant and growing part of their diet.
Again, we strongly support menu labeling and hope that your bill (SB 1420) will pass this year.
Sincerely,
Melissa Artica
B.S. Student at California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Katie Chapmon
Dietetic Intern
Santa Monica, CA
Nicola Edwards, R.D.
Santa Monica, CA
Barbara Estrada, M.S., R.D.
Public Health Nutrition Consultant
Sacramento, CA
Lauren Fraim, M.S.
Nutrition Assistant
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Santa Monica, CA
Christopher D. Gardner, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
Arnell Hinkle, R.D., MPH, CHES
Executive Director
California Adolescent Nutrition and Fitness Program
Berkley, CA
Francine Kaufman, M.D.
USC School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA
Catherine Lamp, M.S., MPH, R.D.
Nutritionist
Visalia, California
Harriet I. Marcus, M.S., R.D.
Sr. Health Coach
Specialty Case Management, Bariatric Surgery
Woodland Hills, CA
Fred Medrano
Director of Health and Human Services
Berkley, CA
Patricia Norman
Executive Director
Committed 2 Community/ YouthRun4Fun
San Francisco, CA
Eloise O'Donnell
M.S. Student at California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Sara Palladino, MS, RD
Burlingame, CA
Barbara Paprock, R.D., C.D.E.
Clinical Nutrition Manager
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Long Beach, CA
Linda Lee Patterson, M.S., R.D.
Retired Diabetes Educator and Nutritionist
Eureka, CA
Dean D. Peterson PE, REHS
Director Environmental Health
Redwood City, CA
Drusilla Rethorn, M.S.
Dietetic Technician
California State University, Los Angeles
Alhambra, CA
Al Schieder
Director of Food Services
Hayward Unified School District
Hayward, CA 94544
Judith Stern, Sc.D.
Distinguished Professor, Department of Nutrition
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA
Silvia Villagran, R.D.
Weight Management Specialist/ Diabetes Educator
Whittier, CA
Rainbow Vogt, PhD
Researcher
Los Angeles, CA
Courtney Walberg, B.S.
Dietetic Intern
Los Angeles, CA
