1. Communities Putting Prevention to Work in
Action:
Views from the Field and What’s Ahead
Erin MacDougall
Healthy Eating and Active Living Program
Public Health - Seattle & King County
November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead
Oakland, CA

2. Overview
 CDC funding for Communities Putting
Prevention to Work (CPPW)
 Identifying solutions through Healthy
Eating policy and systems changes
 Focus on food systems, including
farmers markets, food policy
council, farm to school, healthy retail
and healthy food purchasing
November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead
Oakland, CA

3. Public health and food policy efforts in
Seattle & King County, Washington
 Farm to Table/Cooperative Purchasing
 Healthy Vending Policy
 Healthy Corner Stores
November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead
Oakland, CA

4. Seattle & King County
Farm to Table Project
Advancing Cooperative Food Purchasing
 Goals:
 Increase fruit and vegetable consumption
by low income kids and seniors,
 Strengthen local food system,
 create relationships between providers to
promote cooperative purchasing
 Partners: City of Seattle, WA State
Department of
Agriculture, and Puget Sound Food Network
 Sixteen programs serving seniors and
children in
childcare linked to local food producers
November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead
Oakland, CA

5. Seattle & King County
King County Board of Health
Healthy Vending Guidelines
 Goals:
 Provide healthier choices in vending machines
focused on Dietary Guidelines 2010
 Promote best practices for policy adoption
and implementation
 Useable for diverse types of organizations
including public and private
Available at:
http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/%7e/media/health/publi
chealth/documents/nutrition/HealthyVendingGuidelines.ashx
November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead
Oakland, CA

6. Seattle & King County
Healthy Corner Stores
 25 stores in urban and suburban communities
 Partnering with Community Based
Organizations
 Bringing support to businesses including capital
www.healthyfoodshere.o
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November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead
Oakland, CA

7. Approaches for sustainability
 Policy and systems changes by their nature
are longer lasting and impact more people
 CPPW is paying for changes that will live
beyond the grant period
 Snowball effect where organizations and
governments see what others do and want to
replicate and increase number of policy
leaders
 Building the evidence-base for effective
interventions in the future
November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead
Oakland, CA

8. Resources
 CFSC – foodsecurity.org
 USDA Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative -
www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/knowyourfarmer
 National Farm to School Network – www.farmtoschool.org
 National Healthy Corner Store Network –
www.healthycornerstores.org/
 National Good Food Network - www.ngfn.org/
November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead
Oakland, CA

9. THANK
YOU!
Contact information:
Erin MacDougall, PhD
Healthy Eating and Active Living Program Manager
Public Health Seattle & King County
206.263.8804
erin.macdougall@kingcounty.gov
November Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action:
2011 Views from the Field and What’s Ahead
Oakland, CA