January 9, 2008

Agenda

Shape Up Coalition Meeting

Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families

1390 Market Street, Suite 900 The Mint ∙ San Francisco, CA 94102

January 9, 2008 ∙ 2:00 – 3:30 PM

Purpose:

Desired Outcomes:

Minutes

Present: (15) Amy Adkins, Katy Davis, William Edmonson, Patricia Erwin, Eugene Flannery, Marian Gregoire, Susana Hennessey-Lavery, David Lown, Sraddha Mehta, Lara Sallee, Bergen Watterson, Libby Albert, Christina Goette Carpenter, Cheryl Magid, Marianne Szeto

SUSF Updates

• Kids Walking Challenge Closing Ceremony – January 16 at Kezar Pavilion from 3-5 PM.

Need volunteers: 10-2 – set up; 2:30-5 – carnival games; 5-6 – clean-up

• SUSF Project Grid – This item will be saved for next month’s agenda.
• Yahoo! Groups – Marianne announced in the Jan 2 e-blast to the coalition that we will transition to Yahoo! Groups. Next week, members will receive auto-generated email from Yahoo! saying they have been added to the shapeupsf group. If you do not want to be added, contact marianne.szeto@sfdph.org and you will be removed from the list.
• Funding requests – Kaiser Permanente and The California Endowment (TCE)

Shape Up will be applying for a Kaiser grant and sending 4 brief concepts to TCE:

1)       School food assessment

2)       SEFA community advisory committee around grocery stores monitoring

3)       Physical activity assessment

4)       Soda Free Summer

General Mills 10K due next week

Tomorrow at 9 – RWJF healthy eating research call.

• ·          2007 Year in Review – This is only a partial list and we will use it for tracking and as a showpiece. Next year we will solicit input from all coalition members.
• ·          Fact Sheets – Shape Up now has 5 fact sheets. These are work in progress and we welcome feedback. They will be posted to shapeup website. We are working on lower literacy level fact sheets and translations. Please send feedback via fax (415.581.2490) or email marianne.szeto@sfdph.org.
• ·          Stadium to Stadium – (Eugene Flannery) Saturday, June 7, 2008
  • Possibility of renaming it to “Shape Up SF Stadium to Stadium” will be discussed at the Steering Committee meeting.
  • Need help with marketing, planning, and outreach.
  • Marathon Matt helping with training. Need minimum of 15 people to commit to train in April and raise $1000. If $1k is too high, possibility of bringing this down.
  • Need to post to shapeup website.
  • Need participation by city employees.
  • Possibly frame this as a follow-up activity after the Walking Challenge. Cheryl to look into possibility of using walking challenge website to track training progress of participants.
• Kaiser Half Marathon – (Lara Sallee) Superbowl Sunday, February 3, 2008 8AM
  • Registration is already up 20% compared to last year.
  • Limited to 10K participants
  • No race-day registration
  • Need to link on Shape Up website.

SUSF Coalition Presentation: Legislative Updates

Presenters: Paula Jones & Susana Hennessey-Lavery

Local Level:

1)       Transfat free program introduced by Maxwell in Dec 2007 – Voluntary program for restaurants that would pay a fee, get certified as transfat free, and have a decal to put in window. Voted on by City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee on 1/10. DPH would be administering the program. This ordinance has support of restaurant association, so it is likely to pass.

2)       Menu board labeling – A fee-based program. SF already has an ordinance in its health code requiring chain restaurants to provide nutritional information on demand. This menu board labeling ordinance amends that code and requires 3 things:

i) Chain restaurants must provide the number of calories on the menu board. (Chain restaurant is defined as any restaurant with 14 or more in state of CA.

ii) Chain restaurants that have menus have to provide additional information on calories, saturated fats, carbohydrates, and sodium.

iii) Chain restaurants are required to develop a poster of a specific size at the entrance of restaurant with additional information on transfat, protein, and fiber.

3)       Soda Fee – fee to retailers selling sweetened beverages. Mayor asked DPH to look into justification for levying a fee on businesses that sold calorically sweetened beverages. Sodas and other sweetened beverages are considered a harmful product and the local level has a right to levy a fee on businesses that sell harmful products to mitigate that harm.

4)       Prop H (that sends city funds to school district) committee released recommendations for POS (point of sale – like a gift card of fast track) for cafeterias to reduce stigma for students and control costs. There will not be additional funding for rollout of more salad bars.  Need to consider:

• Do we have committed funding to maintain the salad bars that we already have?
• How do we get additional funding for more salad bars?

State Level: The deadline for bills to be introduced is Feb 18, 2008. Next meeting will have more info on what comes out at state level. For more info on farm bill, contact Paula Jones.

• Tobacco legislation: Effective January 1, 2008, there is a new law preventing second hand smoke in cars with youth under age 18. Violations result in $100 fine. Weakness – law enforcement cannot stop a vehicle for a smoking violation alone. It has to be stopped on a different violation. (Cheryl will link fact sheet to Shape Up website.)

SUSF Coalition Projects

• Rethink Your Drink/Soda Free Summer – Last year,Alameda County launched RYD/SFS campaign. RYD – educational component on sugar content, specifically in beverages funded by federal and USDA funding. SFS campaign passed out thousands of brochures with commitment form. Entered into raffle for $500 card where you can’t buy soda.
  • Alameda conducted full evaluation with RDD and found that:

1. Over half (56%) report they now do not normally drink any soda or other sugar added drinks.
2. Almost half (43%) reported consuming less soda and other sweetened beverages

• BANPAC decided to do this as regional project. Pitching to TCE that the soda-free summer campaign can be an organizing tool for communities to do sweetened beverage fees in other localities.
• Approaching Kaiser Regional for funding.
• SF is leading the regional effort for SFS. If you want to be involved, there are a number of committees – grants, launch, media, education, website.
• Could be our other signature event for shape up. Although SFS focuses on children and youth, but that is how the walking challenge started and we will also make it available to anyone who wants to take a pledge to reduce their soda intake.
• How can we integrate our work in health care/clinic settings?
• Physical Activity Council – Soft-launch on Feb 1, 2008.
  • Concept – SU work around food and food systems has been incredible. (Food systems assessment). We need the same for physical activity – i.e. raise awareness, increase collaboration, examine challenges, barriers, conduct assessment on environment as it promotes/hinders PA.
  • Partnership with YMCA Pioneering Healthier Communities
  • Marianne will be lead staff.
• Vending – A RFI (request for information) has been drafted. Need to revitalize it, bring it to SU work group to see if there is interest in working on it. If you re interested, contact Libby.
• Summer Lunch –
  • Problems last year with delivery issues caused a decrease in average daily participation.
  • This year the menu will be revamped. The vendor will do tasting and invite groups, kids to give feedback on the food.
  • More cold food for food safety, tighten up delivery
  • Libby will meet with DOE to reduce waste and pilot at some sites.
  • Nutrition education component will be expanded.
  • American Heart Association will target Asian, Latino, and African American locations to train sites on bill Clinton AHA collaborative program.
  • Food temperatures will be taken in the kitchen and given a 4-hour window where food has to be served or thrown away by the time indicated.
• Menu board labeling 1/31 @ 1 pm with City Operations Committee

Member Announcements/Next Steps

Paula Jones –

• As of January 2, all lettuce in salad bars is organic and they will be adding a variety of lettuces, providing a nicer way for gardens to connect. At least 2-3 times a month, vendor will offer locally sustainable fruit.
• In Mayor’s 2^nd inaugural address, one of the first things he mentioned was the need to focus on health, promotion, prevention, and work of the Shape Up coalition. Pledged that SF Is going to be the healthiest city.

Libby Albert –

• Salad bars will be assessed in February. Leah Rimkus is designing an evaluation tool and process. If interested in site visit and an assessment, contact Libby. Assessment on what kids like and don’t like, focus group with kids, questionnaires with parents (interviews) and staff at schools, observations
• 3^rd annual Family Appreciation Day on Sunday. Lots of places will be free for families. Show that you live in SF, have to have (human) children with you under 18 years old. If you don’t live in SF and have children with an ID, they can be free. Muni is free for kids 0-18.

Lara Sallee –

• Kaiser’s local community grants program – hospitals are doing a new needs assessment (healthmattersinsf.org). Grant applications will be delayed. She hopes to have them at the February meeting. Anticipating that local priority areas will be similar to what they were last year.
• Beacon initiative, Kaiser, and YMCA collaborated on Gateway to Fitness Program. 11-14 year olds healthy eating, active living program designed for at risk youth in 11-14 year rage. Youth don’t have to be enrolled in the beacon program to participate.  The services are done by neighborhood and are culturally appropriate by neighborhood.

Cheryl Magid (on behalf of Virgie) –

• 7^th Annual Reach Out for Rainbows – Sunday, February 10 from 12-4 at the Bay View Opera House. Free event to celebrate black history month. Virgie asked that SU participate and have a table there (maybe a sugar demo?)

Amy Adkins –

• CDHP Child Obesity Workgroup has launched a hotline piloted with a couple of different pediatric clinics. A child would go see their pediatrician and get recommended that they get some PA. They call a number, speak with a worker who gives specific info for your specific location and how to access it. Worker follows up to see if you did follow up and get the PA. Piloted in a few clinical settings and then see how it happens for city-wide. The resource guide – you really see the gaps of where it exists, particularly for kids who are already identified as overweight.  Great for someone to come to the PAC to talk about that process

Christina Goette Carpenter -

• o        CAL Endow holding forum on Physical Education policies and Christina will report back on next meeting.