Mosaic mural co-created by students
Strategic Alliance
The Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments (Strategic Alliance) is a coalition of nutrition and physical activity advocates in California. The Strategic Alliance is shifting the debate on nutrition and physical activity away from a primary focus on personal responsibility and individual choice to one that examines corporate and government practices and the role of the environment in shaping eating and activity behaviors.
UNITY
UNITY is designed to strengthen and support cities in preventing violence before it occurs and to help sustain these efforts. Young people are severely impacted by violence and those who live in urban areas are disproportionately affected. It is time to consider a new approach. To maximize existing resources and promote sustainability, we are proposing a paradigm shiftfrom programs to strategy.
Healthy Places Coalition
The Healthy Places Coalition advances public health involvement in landuse and transportation planning to ensure that all neighborhoods in California promote the opportunity to live a healthy life. The Coalition consists of practitioners from the planning, public health, parks and recreation, and other related fields, community advocates, academics, and concerned individuals committed to social and health equity from around the state.
Healthy Eating Active Living Convergence Partnership
Prevention Institute provides ongoing guidance, strategy development, and policy analysis for the Healthy Eating Active Living Convergence Partnership. The Partnership is a collaborative of funders in the United States that have come together to jointly advance equity-focused efforts to create environments that support healthy eating and active living. The Partnership aims to strengthen and accelerate collaboration among practitioners, policymakers, funders, and advocates. The steering committee includes The California Endowment, Kaiser Permanente, Nemours Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the newest member, the Kresge Foundation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention serves as a critical technical advisor.
Joint Use Task Force
Joint Use is a way to increase opportunities for children and adults to be more physically active. It refers to two or more entities - usually a school and a city or private organization - sharing indoor and outdoor spaces like gymnasiums, athletic fields and playgrounds. The concept is simple: share resources to keep costs down and communities healthy.
