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.

Connect with other organizers and activists from across the country and beyond.  Take a deep dive into innovative practice and policy that speak to the needs of our communities, not the political winds of Washington.  Roots and Remedies 2 will take place in San Antonio from July 26-28, 2013.  To get on the invitation list, please email us at rrconf@thepraxisproject.org   

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

MOM's grocery axes products that use cartoon characters to market to kids

The discontinued items are being replaced with alternatives in plain packaging. The CEO explained the decision: “Marketing to children is wrong and should be illegal…It focuses on creating a shallow emotional attachment instead of pointing out the merits of a product.”more

 

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