July 10, 2013

AGENDA

Next Shape Up SF Coalition Meeting: October 9 from 2-4 PM @ 50 California St., Suite 650

MINUTES

Present: Janna Cordeiro, Amy Nelson, Terry Mock, Gloria Thornton, Sarah Fine, Rajni Banthia, Mary Crossley, Chloe Yu, Laura Brainin-Rodriguez, Kitty Hu, Chuck Collins, Paula Jones, Ericka Doolittle, Jazz Vassar, Christina Goette, Antonia Williams, Kenny Hill, Erik Halaas, Susanna Hennessey Lavery, Roberto Vargas, Ana Validzic, Terry Mock, Bea Cardenas-Duncan, Lynn Breger, Shannon Yee, Ayanna Davis, Andrea Tacdol, Marianne Szeto

Welcome

After a round of introductions, Chuck and Bea welcomed the group. Chuck explained that at the core of Shape Up SF is two primary components – DPH programs, and the broad Coalition. At our last Coalition meeting, we shared that it was time to revisit our strategic plan. Our current 5 year strategic plan is set to expire in 2014. We are currently in the midst of evaluating our progress since 2006 and the Steering Committee plans to hold a retreat at the end of this year to determine our vision. We’ve developed a strategic alignment document that shows how our work is in strong alignment with leaders in public health from the local level such as our SF Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), to state level such as the governor’s Let’s Get Healthy California Task Force, to national organizations such as the American Heart Association. The Coalition wants to ensure that our strategic plan is in alignment with SF’s CHIP to increase our collective impact. We will keep the Coalition posted on our progress.

Healthy Beverage Policy Report Back

Janna Cordeiro, Shape Up SF Healthy Beverage Consultant, provided technical assistance to the Bayview Hunters Point Foundation, the Children’s Council of SF, and the YMCA of SF to develop at a minimum, a healthy beverage policy and implementation plan. Janna gave an overview of the steps she took with each organization, their outcomes, lessons learned, and resources. View a PDF of her presentation: SUSF Healthy Beverage Policy Report Back

In all, these policies will impact over 63,000 people in SF!

Discussion:

• The SFUSD Food and Fitness Committee’s revision of the Wellness Policy will cover before and after school time, and since the Y is in 120 locations (including 35 schools), it would be great to have them at the table.
• There was also discussion about CACFP (Child and Adult Care Food Programs) funded programs and the Food Security Task Force’s goal to supplement federal funding with local money, if necessary, and their recent proposal for a planning grant to develop a citywide plan to do this.
• Did this work encounter any push back from funders? Some nonprofits receive funding from beverage industry. The Bayview Y used to have a Coke logo on their scoreboard, but it has been removed.
• Need to educate the family as well so they understand why the organizations have these policies.

 Shape Up SF Updates -

Please sign up for the Shape Up SF monthly newsletter to receive brief updates on SUSF projects. The newsletter was created when the Coalition moved from monthly to quarterly meeting schedule to keep members connected and informed of our work.

1. SF Safe Routes to School – The SF Safe Routes to School Partnership is pleased to announce that the SF County Transportation Authority awarded $1.6 million grant to the Partnership on July 25th!  This grant will allow the SRTS program to operate from September 1, 2014 to August 2017.  We will also be expanding to 35 elementary schools, 3 middle schools and 2 high schools.   The majority of the grant will be focused on reaching out to parents and caregivers at participating schools to be SRTS champions and promote walking and biking at their school sites.  We will also help organize walking school buses and bike trains, conduct assemblies and bike rodeos at participating schools, host Walk and Roll to School Day and spring celebrations,  and create toolkits informing parents and caregivers of all the different transportation choices available at the school. 
2. PE Assessment – The Public Education Enrichment Fund – which pays for PE – is up for reauthorization in 2014, so it’s an important time to showcase successes in PE, which is part of why are funding more than half of our PE Assessment. We conducted an assessment in 2010, and are replicating the study to get some longitudinal data on fifth graders, and then baseline for second grade. UC Berkeley researchers have completed data collection and conducted total of 207 (SOFIT – System for observing fitness instruction time) observations of PE classes, 69 interviews and is working on data analysis this summer. They will present the preliminary findings at our October 9 Coalition meeting, so save the date!
3. Coalition website – Our current website (www.shapeupsf.org) is hosted on city servers. DPH has issued a new policy that requires us to move DPH programs to DPH servers, so we took this opportunity to separate the Coalition from the programs that DPH staffs by creating a new website: www.shapeupsfcoalition.org. We’ve been working with BAYCAT on the design and organization of the new site.
4. Rethink Your Drink Workgroup meets on third Tuesday of each month from 10-11:30.
   1. Water Hearing – This hearing is an opportunity for the Public Utilities Commission to highlight what they are doing and plan to do to promote drinking water to SF residents and a chance for the Board of Supervisors to hear about the importance of promoting and increasing access to tap water. We’re hoping when a date is set that we will have presentations that incorporate dental health inequities due to lack of access to dental care, immigrant populations and to learn what the PUC is doing to reach these populations. Public testimony will be heard and is important. For more information, contact Roberto Vargas at rvargas@fcm.ucsf.edu
   2. Shape Up was invited to apply to Metta Fund for a local awareness media campaign. Focus groups confirmed that the sugar packs campaign from Choose Health LA was the most effective and that resonated best with the focus groups. We hope to be plastering the poster/ads all over SF this fall. Ericka Doolittle from Alameda Public Health Department shared that Alameda will be using the same campaign and running it mid August inside BART trains and on bus tails.
   3. California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA) will be organizing a Soda Summit this October, hopefully in SF.
   4. SB622 ($.01/oz SSB excise tax) is on suspense in senate appropriations committee until January 2014. CCPHA is organizing a strong promotion campaign to get the bill off suspense and passed by the Senate, which will require a 2/3 vote. CCPHA developed a one page fact sheet of thins you can do to help: SB622 What Can You Do To Help Factsheet

Community Collaboration for Healthy Food Access in Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP)by the SEFA Food Guardians (FG) (Antonia Williams, Kenny Hill, Jazz Vassar)

The FG are BVHP residents who help bring the community voice to the table. They have been so successful that they have gone from 2 hr a week to now 20-30 hr a week thanks to funding from Kaiser Permanente’s HEAL Zone. Supervisor Eric Mar’s Healthy Retail legislation is built around the work of the SEFA FG in Bayview and is helping us realize our goal of getting citywide legislation around healthy retail.

FG is based on the community action model (CAM) and so they are constantly doing surveys to learn more from the community. They are trained to educate, advocate and mobilize for sustainable change around food justice, security, urban agriculture, and nutrition education and awareness. Their work is based on the Good Neighbor Project from 2003.

They will be converting their 3rd store – Kennedy’s Market on Third and McKennon in September.

Check out their presentation (PDF).

Discussion:

• In their opinion, Fresh and Easy hasn’t had a real impact on the food environment for most BVHP residents. Prices are too high, the location is not accessible to most, parking is difficult.
• With regards to Mar’s healthy retail legislation, profibility is always concern for store owners. Need to show data/trends.
• The Tenderloin Healthy Corner Store Coalition has replicated FG model and is holding a community gathering 7/11 from 4-6 at 201 Turk Community Room to share results from their store assessments.
• Mar’s legislation has support of Arab Grocers Association and the Small Business Commission. It will go the Land Use Committee on 7/22 at 1:30 and welcome public testimony. There will be a media event before the hearing.

Announcements

1.  The Bigger Picture poets will be performing on August 27 at 8 AM at Oakland Children’s Hospital. The UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, the NIH/NIMHD funded Comprehensive Center of Excellence for Health And Risk in Minority Youth and young adults (CHARM) and Youth Speaks jointly present: The Bigger Picture. See for yourself how local youth are using poetry to mobilize change in their communities. The presentation will feature spoken word performances by esteemed Youth Speaks poets on the social determinants of diabetes, highlighting youth voices around the epidemic. Dr. Dean Schillinger, Professor in Residence, UCSF, Former Chief of the California Diabetes Program will provide a brief introduction on the problem of diabetes in minority youth in CA.
   When: Tuesday, August 27^th, 2013 – 8am – 9am
   Where: Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland: Out Patient Center (OPC) Auditorium located in the basement of the OPC building which is directly across the street from the main hospital and adjacent to the parking garage on 52nd street. http://goo.gl/maps/X1J1H
   RSVP: Let us know if you are planning to attend by August 20^th, at gourleyg@medsfgh.ucsf.edu
2. The YMCA of SF will be implementing the CDC’s Diabetes Prevention Program and is recruiting for a community advisory board. If interested, contact Erik Halaas at ehalaas@ymcasf.org.
3. The American Cancer Society is preparing to launch the Cancer Prevention Study 3 and is inviting men and women between the ages of 30 and 65 years who have no personal history of cancer to join this historic research study. The ultimate goal is to enroll at least 300,000 adults from various racial and ethnic backgrounds from across the US. Research study enrollment opportunities will take place at various venues in select communities across the United States and Puerto Rico. For more information about CPS-3 and the selected enrollment locations, please email CPS3@cancer.org or call toll-free 1-888-604-5888.
4. The Children’s Council of SF is hosting 2 upcoming workshops on Nutrition (7/25) and Physical Activity (8/3) for childcare providers but parents are welcome too. For more information.
5. The Feeling Good Project will be at the Heart of the City’s Farmers Market on 7/31 to promote Rethink Your Drink. Last year’s event reached 525 people!