Launching soon-- stay tuned!
Launching soon-- stay tuned!
DOING THE WORK
Leadership for Healthy Communities
This initiative supports local, community and state leaders in their efforts to promote access to affordable, healthy foods. Visit their website.
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TEAM
Through CCHE, The Praxis Project will coordinate technical assistance to provide grantees with individualized assistance, trainings, tools and more--drawing from a team of leaders in grassroots organizing, capacity building, policy and evaluation, and communications.
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.
What's New
WHY Does Policy Matter?
Before residents of Rochester, N.Y. organized, the building was an abandoned store. Now, residents have a full-service supermarket right in their neighborhood.
Policies are the agreements, codes that shape every aspect of our lives and determine our quality of life. Policies at the local level play a particularly important role because it is there that health advocates are better able to mobilize and win effective and innovative laws to support healthy food and safe places to play.
Click here to search several policy databases for examples of local policies related to food and recreation equity. Examples include, Los Angeles' fast food moratorium and Contra Costa's new guidelines for healthy vending machines in schools.
What is CCHE: A Short Interview
Makani Themba-Nixon, director of Communities Creating Healthy Environments (CCHE), answers a few of our burning questions:
Q: What's your vision of a healthy environment?
MTN: Neighborhoods that are green, recreation friendly, with affordable sustainable housing, good jobs and healthy, fresh, affordable food produced in fair labor environments. Where children thrive and feel safe, happy and cared for. Families are supported and connected to extended networks. Education and services meet community needs. Neighbors are engaged with each other in fair, collaborative governance of their communities.
