Food & Fitness Community Partnerships (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Lachance, Laurie; Luluquisen, Mia; Emery, Mary; Carpenter, Laurie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness work as well as a number of early successes. They draw lessons from efforts to form and maintain partnerships, and from the strategies employed to create structural change in communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 102
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317237631
• Artikelnr.: 54035927

Autorenporträt

Laurie Lachance, is an Associate Research Scientist and Evaluation Director of the Center for Managing Chronic Disease. She has led several large-scale, multi-site chronic disease presentation and management evaluation projects, and utilizes community-based approaches to health, creating opportunities for individual health behavior change leading to changes in health disparities. Laurie Carpenter, is a senior research associate at the Center for Managing Chronic Disease, experienced in research and evaluation of chronic disease management and prevention programs. She has provided leadership and support for several multi-site projects, with particular experience in collaborative evaluation, community-based public health initiatives, and technical assistance. Mary Emery, is a professor of Sociology and Community Development. Her research focuses on community vitality, social and cultural capital, demographic challenges in Indian Country, and the application of systems theory to community change. Her research and service outreach includes improving evaluation and monitoring tools for community change work, applying the community capitals to asset mapping and development, and assessing the impact of community change work. Mia Luluquisen, is Deputy Director of Community Assessment, Planning, and Evaluation at the Alameda County Public Health Department. She has a long commitment to community capacity building and applied research for social action, providing training and technical assistance in program planning, evaluation research, community health education, strategic planning and organizational development to institutions and organizations around the world.

Inhaltsangabe

1. An introduction to the Food & Fitness community partnerships 2.
Philanthropy's role: working alongside communities to support social change
3. Food & Community: the cross-site evaluation of the W.K. Kellogg Food &
Fitness community partnerships 4. FEEST on this: youth engagement for
community change in the King County Food and Fitness Initiative 5.
Community engagement for policy and systems change 6. ''Call for
Partnerships:'' an innovative strategy to establish grassroots partnerships
to transform the food and fitness environments 7. Relationship building:
the art, craft, and context for mobilizing the social capital necessary for
systems change 8. Moving toward and beyond equity: the Food & Fitness
approach to increasing opportunities for health in communities