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.


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What We Miss When We Obsess Over Obesity

Just as Congress was concluding a contentious year of debate by passing legislation to overhaul the health care system, a revealing look at lifestyle, income and mortality was published in the journal Social Science & Medicine. It followed a cross-section of American adults to determine precisely which factors drive us to an early death.
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WHY CCHE?

Thoughts from Makani Themba-Nixon, 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 »

 

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CCHE Grantees In The News

2009 CCHE grantees Indigenous Environmental Network and Southwest Organizing Project were recently in the news. Check out coverage of their work.

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