If you are ready to carry out interventions, the resources in the list below can help you. The resources are organized under the following headings: Multiple Settings, Built Environment, Farms, Worksites, Child Care, Health Care, Schools/Children, and Other. There are thousands of resources available from the public and private sectors to aid you in implementing the interventions in your plan. This section of Moving to the Future focuses on helping you find resources that are available from state government agencies and non-governmental-organizations. The section Carrying Out the Interventions Guidance and Federal Government Resources includes resources that can help you implement the interventions in your plan available from Federal government agencies.
MultipleSettings
- Blueprint for Nutrition and Physical Activity
- Center of Excellence for Training and Research Translation
- Center for Weight and Health, University of California – Berkeley. Example resource: Do More-Watch Less toolkit for tweens
- Eat Smart, Move More North Carolina: A statewide movement that fosters healthy eating and physical activity.
- Eat Smart, Move More North Carolina: Create a Buzz: Mobilize Your Community
- Healthy Communities Tool Kit
- Healthy Communities: What Local Governments Can Do to Reduce and Prevent Obesity
- Healthy Counties Database: County Initiatives to Prevent Childhood Obesity
- Implementation and Evaluation
- Overcoming Obstacles to Health
- Shaping a Healthier Generation: Successful State Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity
- Texas! Bringing Healthy Back: Growing Community Video Series
- Washington Active Bodies Active Minds
- Washington’s Healthy Communities Toolkit
- Wisconsin Community Resources
Built Environment
- Action Strategies for Healthy Communities
- Baltimore Healthy Stores
- Complete the Streets
- Evaluation of Smart Growth on the Ground: Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia
- Healthy Planning Policies: A Compendium from California General Plans
- Opening School Grounds to the Community After Hours
- Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
- Model Healthy Food Zone Ordinance: Creating a Healthy Food Zone Around Schools by Regulating the Location of Fast Food Restaurants and Mobile Food Vendors
- Trail & Path Planning: A Guide for Municipalities
Farms/Gardens
- Community/School Garden Resources
- Delivering More: Scaling up Farm to School Projects
- Eat Smart…It’s in the Garden
- Establishing Land Use Protections for Community Gardens
- Establishing Land Use Protections for Farmers’ Markets
- Farm to School Program
- Farm to School Tips, Tools & Guidelines for Food Distribution & Food Safety
- Farm to Work Toolkit
- From Farm to Fork
- Ground Rules: A Legal Toolkit for Community Gardens
- Growing Communities Through Gardens
- How to Organize an Allotment Community Garden
- Model Policies for Community Gardens and Farmers’ Markets
- South Carolina’s Farmers’ Market Toolkit
- UNL Food: Urban Agriculture
Worksites
- Childhood Obesity: It’s Everyone’s Business
- Diabetes At Work
- Guidelines for Offering Healthy Foods at Meetings, Seminars and Catered Events
- Healthy Food Environments Pricing Incentives
- Meeting Well: A Tool for Planning Healthy Meetings and Events
- The Community Guide
- Wellness Councils of America
- WorkWell NC
Child Care Providers
- Action Guide for Child Care Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies
- Child Care and Obesity Prevention
- Early Care and Education Wellness Resource Toolbox
- Head Start Body Start
- Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAPSACC)
- What Works in Early Care & Education
Health Care Providers
- California Toolkits on Obesity Prevention for Health Care Providers
- Ohio Toolkit on Obesity Prevention for Health Care Providers
- Park Prescriptions: Profiles and Resources for Good Health from the Great Outdoors
- Vermont Toolkits on Obesity Prevention for Health Care Providers
School/Children
- Action For Healthy Kids
- Active Schools Toolkit
- Alliance Alternative Fundraising Ideas
- Connecticut’s Healthy School Foods Standards
- Farmers’ Market Salad Bar
- Fruit & Veggie Color Champions
- Fundraising Ideas
- Game On! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge
- Kids Can Do It!
- Kindergarten Initiative
- Local School Wellness Policies Resources
- Making Schools the Model for Healthier Environments Toolkit
- Mapping School Food: A Policy Guide
- Media-Smart You: Eat, Think, and Be Active – An interactive after-school education program for young people ages 11-13.
- Move & Crunch Challenge for Principals
- Move More North Carolina: Recommended Standards for After-School Physical Activity
- NASPE Teacher Toolbox
- Partnering For Success: How Health Departments Work and How to Work with Health Departments
- Preventing Childhood Obesity: A School Health Policy Guide
- Reducing Screen Time: Resources for People Working With School Age Children
- Safe Routes to School Publications
- Sweet Deals: School Fundraising Can Be Healthy & Profitable
- Useful Websites for Healthy Kids
- VERB Scorecard
Other
- Aging Well in Communities
- Healthy Mobile Vending Policies
- I Can Do It, You Can Do It: A mentoring program to increase physical fitness among youth with disabilities.
- Imposing a Regulatory Fee on Soda
- North Carolina Fruit & Veggies Nutrition Coalition promotes better health for all North Carolinians by increasing fruit and vegetable consumption.
- Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative
- Tipsheet when working with restaurants