A national capacity-building initiative to support diverse, community-based organizations and indigenous groups with proven track records in developing and organizing for effective, culturally competent policy initiatives that address the root causes of childhood obesity at the local level.

Roots and Remedies: Toward a Comprehensive Agenda for Healthy Communities

Roots and Remedies is an invitation only gathering. The aim is to collectively surface emerging and best practices to inform a policy centered agenda to connect the dots between critical issues like food sovereignty, the right and reclamation of public spaces, improving public schools, protecting human rights, increasing human mobility and more.

 
WHY CCHE?

Thoughts from Makani Themba, Director of Communities Creating Healthy Environments.

 

The nation’s First Family rolls up their sleeves to volunteer in soup kitchens to help those without food to eat. The First Lady reinstitutes the White House vegetable garden, which by the way, is the first to grow food since First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s famous Victory Garden more than sixty years ago. And the Food Network even does a special Iron Chef episode using vegetables from the White House garden as the secret ingredient. Clearly, issues of obesity are on the public agenda and that can be a good thing. More »

 

 

 

News & Notes

Recent News

Threat Of Hunger Skyrockets Among Seniors Over Last Decade: Report

One in seven seniors in America -- some 8.3 million people -- faced the threat of hunger in 2010, a 78 percent spike since 2001, according to a study released today by Meals On Wheels, the nonprofit that delivers meals to the homebound. more

Upcoming Webinars

 

Food Soveriengty in Indian Country: Vision, Practices and Policy-5/8/12

You Can’t Get There from Here: Accessible Transportation and its Impact on Community Health-5/15/12

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Past Webinar Resources