Government The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Provided initial funding to SUS Somerville Public School...

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Government The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Provided initial funding to SUS Somerville Public School system Trained staff in SUS goals to promote healthy curriculum and wellness policies, including options for physical activity and healthy menu changes Somerville School Food Services Enhanced quality and quantity of healthy foods for students, purchasing new kitchen and serving equipment a Powerful Sponsor Recruit a or Champion Business Local food providers Initially donated fresh produce for public school meals; later received preferred vendor contracts with schools, stimulating the local economy pendency of Each Sector Local Restaurants 21 restaurants participated in "Shape-Up" approved plan, offering low-fat dairy, smaller portions, fruit and vegetable sides, and provided positive publicity for restaurants The Intersector Result Community-wide involvement and investment in healthy children; Shape Up Somerville initiatives prevented unhealthy weight gain over a two-year period and got school children on a healthy trajectory of normal weight gain and out of the obese category; SUS efforts have since been incorporated into the Somerville Department of Health. Build a Common Fact Base Communicate Non-Profit Shape Up Somerville: East Smart, Play Hard Environmental and policy change intervention designed to prevent and reduce obesity in culturally diverse, high- risk, early-elementary school children (1st-3rd graders) Tufts University Led a scientific study on obesity in Somerville Applied for grants to fund project Community-based organizations Helped disseminate the intervention strategies and goals of Project to ethnic minority and underserved populations Government The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Provided initial funding to SUS Somerville Public School system Trained staff in SUS goals to promote healthy curriculum and wellness policies, including options for physical activity and healthy menu changes Somerville School Food Services Enhanced quality and quantity of healthy foods for students, purchasing new kitchen and serving equipment a Powerful Sponsor Recruit a or Champion Business Local food providers Initially donated fresh produce for public school meals; later received preferred vendor contracts with schools, stimulating the local economy pendency of Each Sector Local Restaurants 21 restaurants participated in "Shape-Up" approved plan, offering low-fat dairy, smaller portions, fruit and vegetable sides, and provided positive publicity for restaurants The Intersector Result Community-wide involvement and investment in healthy children; Shape Up Somerville initiatives prevented unhealthy weight gain over a two-year period and got school children on a healthy trajectory of normal weight gain and out of the obese category; SUS efforts have since been incorporated into the Somerville Department of Health. Build a Common Fact Base Communicate Non-Profit Shape Up Somerville: East Smart, Play Hard Environmental and policy change intervention designed to prevent and reduce obesity in culturally diverse, high- risk, early-elementary school children (1st-3rd graders) Tufts University Led a scientific study on obesity in Somerville Applied for grants to fund project Community-based organizations Helped disseminate the intervention strategies and goals of Project to ethnic minority and underserved populations