October 14, 2009

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Minutes

October 14, 2009, 2-4 PM
DCYF 1390 Market St., Suite 900

Present: Gloria Thornton (Anthem Blue Cross), Corinne Ng (Intern for COTF), Luningning Haluck (UCSF School of Medicine), Ana Validzic (SFDPH), Bill Vanark (Playworks), Susan Priano (SFGH/SEIU), Christina Mak, Adam Varat (Planning), Jon Swae (Planning), Michelle Loya-Talamantes (CARACEN), Miriam Alper (CHDP), Debra Gore-Mann (USF), Nik Kaestner (SFUSD), Beatrice Cardenas-Duncan (ERIU 1021 Retirees), Andy Thornley (SFBC), Kali Cheung (YLI), Matt Rosen (YLI), Kimberly Durandet (Planning), Felix Deng (Youth Commission), Lorraine-Woodruff-Long (SFPAL), Ana Alvarez (RPD), Susan Roberts (Girls on the Run), Roberto Vargas (UCSF), Stefan Harvey (CCPHA), Pat Kilduff (Fort Mason), Eva Gabel-Sippola (SCORES), Jeffrey Betcher (QGI), Randy Reiter, Lara Sallee (Kaiser Permanente), Christina Goette (DPH), Amy Portello Nelson (DCYF), Marianne Szeto (Shape Up)

Agenda:
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Communities Putting Prevention to Work
III. Soda consumption and its link to obesity – presentation by Stefan Harvey of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy
IV. Announcements and evaluation

Welcome to our first quarterly meeting of the Shape Up SF Coalition. There are a few changes:

• Libby Albert, who used to co-staff Shape Up, left DCYF this summer and is now with the USDA.
• We’ve moved to a quarterly schedule as many members have plugged directly into our various programs, projects and networks. In addition to Shape Up e-blasts, we’ve started a monthly newsletter to report on updates for specific Shape Up projects.
• If you have any announcements or events you would like to include in the Shape Up e-blasts, please send to marianne.szeto@sfdph.org

Communities Putting Prevention to Work
Grant Award: Total available: $373 million. Urban area applicants: $4 million – $10 million
Expected # of Awardees:  30 – 40 nationally (State, rural, urban, large city), and about half will be for obesity prevention, physical activity and nutrition.
Grant Start: Feb 26, 2010, 2 year grant period
Applicants should leverage other ARRA and in-kind funding

The intent of this announcement is to fund highly qualified public health agencies with the following experience and support in place:

• active coalitions and demonstrated experience working with community leaders to implement policy, systems, and environmental change strategies;
• demonstrated support from the mayor, county executive, tribal leader, or other equivalent governmental official for this initiative;
• demonstrated support from all public school districts within the intervention area for the collection of Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) data among a representative sample of 9th-12th grade students for baseline during fall 2010 and follow-up at the end of the project period using standard YRBSS protocol; and
• demonstrated ability to meet reporting requirements such as programmatic, financial, and management benchmarks as required by the Recovery Act in section VI.3.

Focus communities

• In communities and schools such that the entire jurisdiction of the health department is included
• It is recommended awardees include a strong focus on the needs of populations who suffer disproportionately from the burden of disease.

Specified Interventions
MAPPS – Population-based approaches such as policy, systems, and environmental changes across 5 evidence-based MAPPS strategies –
Media
Access
Point of decision information
Price
Social support services

There are a number of restrictions for grant dollars which Christina has asked for further clarification including (but not limited to) not using funds for research, and not using funds for construction. (Installation of bike racks?) For full details, read the funding announcement online.

Shape Up has already submitted the letter of intent, hosted one meeting with mostly city departments, and started a list of prioritization criteria for our interventions. CDC is looking for interventions based on gap analysis, so we will also be referring to Shape Up’s strategic plan. The CDC wants broad reach that is impactful, builds on existing interventions, and leverages ARRA and local funding. Looking for sustainability.

Discussion/Brainstorming:

• Price: Sunday Streets gives people a free place to play. Link with farmers markets along route?
• Media/Access: COTF Referral hotline bridges gap between providers and CBOs.
• Social Support: workplace breastfeeding
• Need to strategically engage youth and the communities
• Need to talk with SFUSD
• School lunch/working gardens
• Revive Junior Lifeguard Program at RPD. Teach lifesaving skills and naturally feed into lifeguard pgoram
• Signage in parks to promote walks
• Teach youth how to select, prep, and cook healthy foods in afterschool programs
• Safe Routes to School expansion
• Replicating Smart Trips program from Portland
• Expand/activate parks
• Support community-driven physical activity
• Community drivers- navigators such as bike ambassadors (Chicago) or walk leaders
• Address off-campus lunch – work withrestaurants to encourage healthy choice
• Senior citizen population – nutrition and mobility education
• Corner store improvement with residents
• Assessment/evaluation
• Nutrition fund school lunch study for future of SFUSD school lunch
• Food gardens that kits tend to supplement school food
• Expand food gardens funded by middle and high schoolers
• Bike racks/education by YMCA
• Strengthen bike culture/bike kitchen (youth teaching youth to build and maintain bikes)
• Partner elders with nutritionists
• Wayfinding – ROSE plan, portable housing
• Pavement to Parks
• Bike sharing program
• Equip nurses with skills to teach in community
• Communities improving own streets
• PE everyday
• POS funding
• Soda Free Summer/Rethink Your Drink
• Gardens at neighborhood centers, rec centers, libraries
• Using afterschool programs as opportunities to bring people together
• Grassroots programs
• Social cohesion and social capital
• Volunteerism
• Mayor’s directive for food systems
• Local initiatives like SEFA
• Joint-use agreements/activation
• Web-based infrastructure for physical activity referrals

Next steps:

• Convene potential leadership team
• Prioritize concepts for grant
• Letters of support
• www.ShapeUpSF.org - Click link in “Highlights” box to submit ideas online

Guest presentation: Stefan Harvey, Assistant Director at California Center for Public Health Advocacy
Commissioned by CCPHA, the study reports geographic variations in consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages among children, adolescents, and adults and examines the correlation between soda consumption and obesity. Data came from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), which interviewed more than 43,000 adults and 4,000 adolescents from every county in the state. The study was conducted by UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research.

California:
41% of 2-11 year olds drink 1 or more calorically sweetened beverage a day
62% of 12-17 year olds drink 1 or more calorically sweetened beverage a day
24% of adults drink 1 or more calorically sweetened beverage a day

San Francisco:
21.5% of 2-11 year olds drink 1 or more calorically sweetened beverage a day
42%  of 12-17 year olds drink 1 or more calorically sweetened beverage a day
11% of adults drink 1 or more calorically sweetened beverage a day

• Even though SF stats are lower than the state, we need to know these statistics and use them when we talk to others to reform the beverage environment in CA. By drinking one soda a day, that’s consuming 39 pounds of sugar in a year.
• The study also found that if adults consume at least one calorically sweetened beverage a day regardless of income, race or ethnicity, they are 27% more likely to be overweight or obese.
• At this time, no member of Congress has stepped up to support a soda tax. Senator Padilla has agreed to co-convene a hearing of the Senate Health Committee with Senator Alquist in LA on 11/5 to hear from experts in public health economic field about soda consumption and its contribution to obesity.

How do we reform the beverage environment?

• Create vending policies that eliminate sodas in all city-owned property (rec center, health clinics, parks, worksites, etc)
• Create procurement policies that only healthy beverages may be purchased with CCSF funds.
• See recommendations handout (in supporting documents)

Member Announcements

• Childhood Obesity Task Force is organizing a training on February 27, 2010 to address the science behind obesity and provide a science-based foundation for understanding the complex issues of childhood obesity and to give attendees practical tools to implement at their work sites. Register today for a discount! There will be no on-site registration and space is limited.
• Free Event: Festival de los Volcanes
  Sunday, October 18 from 10-5
  Horace Mann Middle School
  3351 23rd St between Bartlett and Valencia.
  For more information, visit www.carecensf.org or call 415-642-4400
  Need volunteers. If interested, contact Michelle@carecensf.org
• Safe Routes to School launched last week with Walk to School Day that was a great success.
  Safe Routes to Schools SF elementary school sites:

• Youth Leadership Institute (YLI) youth advocates on the Tobacco Use Reduction Force (TURF) are ready to move forward with proposing new legislation in the next few weeks and could use support. This legislation will set limits on tobacco retail permits in SF. Supervisor Mirkarimi has sponsored this legislation.
  Visit http://yli.org/prevention/programs/pyc_programs/turf/ for more information.
• SEFA, the Southeast Food Access Working Group is hiring a Food Guardian Project Coordinator to manage 4-6 food guardians. Download the job description.
• “SEVA”, which means selfless service in Sanskrit, is a project of SFGH and Bayview Hunters Point Community. They will be holding community meetings to get consensus on recommendations. Contact info@quesadagardens.org for more information.
  Quesada Gardens Initiative will also be launching a series of public gatherings. Check their website for updates: www.quesadagardens.org
• 2010 Walking Challenge Brainstorming Meeting: Friday, October 23, from 2-3:30 PM at 1390 Market St., Suite 900 in The Mint. We will review the evaluation from 2009, look at the budget, timeline and ideas for 2010. The Walking Challenge will be from March 1 – May 7, 2010.