Thanks to San Francisco Kaiser Permanente's generous sponsorship for making many of these projects possible.
Southeast Food Access (SEFA)
SEFA is a collaborative of residents, community based organizations, city agencies, education etc. The role of SEFA is to serve as the catalyst that facilitates communication, advocacy, and accountability across city and community agencies as well as neighborhood residents to ensure that healthy, fresh, local, sustainable, and affordable produce is accessible to all residents of the Bay View Hunters Point and neighboring areas, utilizing existing venues and supporting transformation and /or creation of new ones. For more information about SEFA, please contact Tracey Patterson at [email protected] or 415-581-2444.
Rethink Your Drink & Soda Free Summer
Rethink Your Drink is the banner name for all of Shape Up SF''s campaigns related to sugar-sweetened drinks: Soda Free Summer (SFS) and "Drink Water!" Said the Otter (DWSTO)., Shape Up SF is focusing its efforts on not only educating residents about the health impacts of sweetened beverages, but to create an aware and informed base of constituents that can help advocate for policy or legislative changes to decrease access to sweetened beverages year-round.
Physical Education Advocates
Shape Up SF first convened the PE Advocates in May 2010. The PE Advocates are a group of diverse partners, including the SFUSD Physical Education Department, that are unified in our belief that PE is the equitable way for all children to get regular physical activity. The first order of business was to discuss the PAC and PERK recommendations and draft a plan of action. The PE Advocates determined that our first action would be to understand the current status of and environment for physical education programs in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD).
Shape Up Bayview HEAL Zone
HEAL stands for Healthy Eating Active Living, and the goal of the project is to help Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) residents eat better and move more in places where they live, work, and play. The HEAL Zone will work with different organizations and businesses in the Bayview to help BVHP residents:
- Eat fewer calories;
- Eat more fruits and vegetables; and
- Get more active.
Offering free exercise classes and cooking demos, helping stores to offer more fresh fruits and vegetables, and creating safer walkways and places to play are some of the ways that the Bayview HEAL Zone will give BVHP residents more healthy options. Click here to see a map of the general HEAL Zone in BVHP.
Shape Up Walking Challenge
Each year Shape UP San Francisco challenges you, your family, neighbors, and colleagues to get moving with the annual Shape Up SF Walking Challenge. Get a team together and record your physical activity over the course of 10 weeks. The goal is for the team's collective total to add up to 1,016 miles, the equivalent of the California coastline. After you complete the 1,016 miles along the coast of California, your team can choose whether or not to continue with a new challenge across the country and if you are brave enough, around the world! The concept is based on research that suggests it takes about 10 weeks to change behavior. The hope is that this program will help increase health physical activity behaviors.
Sunday Streets
Sunday Streets is a series of events put on by the City of San Francisco to encourage health, community and fun, inspired by similar events in cities throughout the world. A Sunday Streets event creates a large, temporary, public space by closing off stretches of a neighborhood’s streets to automobile traffic, and opening them to pedestrians, bicyclists, and activities for several hours on a predetermined Sunday.
