CLOCC-Led Projects
TASK
TASK (Transportation that is Active and Safe for Kids)
is a collaborative group within CLOCC, whose mission is
to foster safe walking and biking in the Uptown/Edgewater,
West Town/East Humboldt Park, West Garfield Park, and Ashburn
neighborhoods. For more information, please call Liz Wuerffel at 312-573-7767.
CO-OP: Humboldt Park
CO-OP: Humboldt Park (Community Organizing for Obesity Prevention)
is a program that seeks to build a network of community
groups and individuals, medical facilities, and elected
officials to create awareness of obesity, related illnesses
and create community based solutions to this epidemic. For more information, please call Miguel Morales at 773-278-6737.
Healthy Foods, Healthy Moves: InForm Chicago
Healthy Foods, Healthy Moves: InForm Chicago builds healthier communities by promoting the importance of good nutrition and physical activity to Chicago youth of all ages in both school and community settings. It is a partnership between Communities In Schools of Chicago (CISC) and
CLOCC and has been funded by a grant from PepsiCo Foundation. InForm Chicago is working to reduce child overweight in Chicago with a science-based healthy
lifestyle message - 5-4-3-2-1 Go! - promoted in a variety of settings. This unique project is training teens, school staff, and neighborhood program providers to be nutrition and physical activity message ambassadors to support good choices for a healthy lifestyle. For more information, please call Lara Jones Jaskiewicz (CLOCC)
at 312-573-7759 or Kristen Kainer (CISC) at 312-829-2475.
Faith Leadership Project
This project worked at the community level to replicate
the CDC’s Heart, Body, and Soul Program
via a developing
network of faith based institutions eager to take on the
challenge of childhood obesity prevention. It
started within CLOCC’s vanguard communities and
reached out to the broader African-American faith community.
For more information, please call Rev. James Kenady at 312-573-7749.
Continuing Education and Local Support for Schools (CELSS)
This
project provided continuing education and local support
to six specific public schools to help
them improve student
nutrition and physical activity. Teachers and administrative
staff in the targeted Chicago Public Schools attended continuing education events focused on in-classroom and community
specific strategies to prevent childhood obesity and received
direct and indirect support from the members of CLOCC’s
School Systems Working Group. For more information, please call Liz Wuerffel at 312-573-7767. To access the CELSS manual provided to schools, please go here.
Program Implementation Grants
Here is a complete list of CLOCC Program Implementation Grant recipients.
Apply
for a Program Implementation Grant here.
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