Center for Weight and Health, U.C. Berkeley

Children and Weight:
What Communities Can Do

The Project	Policy, Advocacy & Action
Community Coalition Updates	publications
Children and Weight Resource Kits	organizations & links
Fundraising	Nutrition & Physical Activity
Body Image & Self Esteem	education tools
education & prevention tools	organizations & links: nutrition promotion
organizations & links	organizations & links: physical activity
	Training Kit slide revisions
	C&W: What Communities Can Do

The Project

In 2002, the Center for Weight and Health published Children and Weight: What Communities Can Do, a tool kit designed respond to the increasing problem of childhood obesity by bringing people together and mobilizing local resources.

The University of California Cooperative Extension county staff helped pilot test the kit by launching coalitions in counties across California in 2001. These groups have now been meeting for about two years and have undertaken a wide variety of activities across the Spectrum of Prevention, from health education to policy reform, to accomplish their goals. The Community Coalition Updates section offers current project and contact information about these groups

If you are a member of a community group working on childhood obesity in California or elsewhere in the U.S., please contact us so that we may list your group on this site.