Communities Creating Health Environments
Taking on School Lunch Webinar, Resources
www.ccheonline.org
CCHE grantees from around the country are doing innovative work around school food
environments. To learn more about these groups, please visit:
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Padres y Jóvenes Unidos, www.padresunidos.org
InnerCity Struggle, www.innercitystruggle.org
WE ACT for Environmental Justice, www.weact.org
Community Tools
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Developing A Policy Initiative: This step by step worksheet offers communities a guide to
shaping proactive community generated policies. It can be found at
www.thepraxisproject.org
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Building Diverse Community Based Coalitions: This guide offers organizers and
advocates a process to build a coalition that will build power towards system change. It
can be found at www.thepraxisproject.org.
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Creating a Demand Process: A guide to understanding decision makers and crafting
demands for change. It can be found at www.thepraxisproject.org.
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Communicating for Health Justice: This tool is designed to help health justice advocates
make the shift from the dominant, “portrait” frame (characterized by individual choices
like what we chose to eat), to a “landscape” perspective that includes how policies and
historical issues continue to shape health outcomes. It can be found at
www.thepraxisproject.org.
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Multilingual Strategies and Social Justice: Ensuring Access, Inclusion and Cultural
Competency: Multilingual strategies are key to making the values of inclusion and access
more real in our work. Multilingual work, the collective effort of the social justice
movement to open spaces for equality and democratic participation has led to the
recognition of the need to honor and respond to the tremendous diversity of our society,
communities and constituencies. This document can be found at
www.thepraxisproject.org
Organizational Resources
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Alliance for Educational Justice: The Alliance for Educational Justice (AEJ) is a national
alliance of youth organizing and intergenerational groups working for educational
justice. AEJ aims to bring grassroots groups together to bring about changes in federal
education policy, build a national infrastructure for the education justice sector, and build
the capacity of our organizations and our youth leaders to sustain and grow the
progressive movement over the long haul. www.allianceforeducationaljustice.org
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Communities Creating Health Environments
Taking on School Lunch Webinar, Resources
www.ccheonline.org
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Colectivo Flatlander: Colectivo Flatlander helps build a stronger popular movement for
social, economic and racial justice in the South and Southwest by working with
communities and organizations who are engaged in these struggles. Founded in 2002 by
immigrant and Chicano organizers who sought to provide grassroots immigrant rights
groups and organizers with tools, political analysis, training opportunities and spaces for
dialogue that modeled popular education principles. www.colectivoflatlander.org
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Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education: Strategic Concepts in
Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) builds grassroots power to eliminate the
structural barriers to social and economic opportunities for poor and disenfranchised
communities. SCOPE combines community organizing, leadership development,
strategic alliance building, research, training and capacity building, and policy advocacy
to pursue its mission at the local, state and national levels. More information can be
found at www.scopela.org
General Resources
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2010 State Plan: Colorado Physical Activity and Nutrition Coalition and the Colorado
Department of Public Health and Environment produced a 2010 State Plan that identified
Recess before Lunch (RBL) as a key strategy they want districts to implement.
(http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/pp/copan/2004stateplan.pdf )
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Recess before Lunch: The state of Montana has passed the most notable policy on Recess
before Lunch. They have created a 28-slide, power point resource mapping out their
entire methodology in implementing RBL. It can be found at
www.opi.state.mt.us/schoolfood/index.html.
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USDA Farm to School Grants: You can receive updates directly by subscribing to the
USDA Farm to School mailing list or by visiting the Farm to School website. For more
information contact Deborah Kane, National Director, Farm to School Program, Food &
Nutrition Services (FNS): deborah.kane@fns.usda.gov or 503.326.2010 or Gregory
Walton, Grants Management Specialist, FNS: greg.walton@fns.usda.gov or
703.305.1575.
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