Resources
Tools
• Environmental Assessment
• Community Resident Survey
• Child Portion Control Toolkit
• Faith-based Portion Control Toolkit
• General Community Organization Portion Control Toolkit
Information for Families of Children with Type2 Diabetes
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Children and Diabetes
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/projects/cda2.htm
• American Diabetes Association –
Living with Diabetes: For Parents and Kids
http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/parents-and-kids/
?utm_source=WWW&utm_medium=DropDownLWD&
utm_content=ParentsKids&utm_campaign=CON
• Diabetes Families – Type 2 Diabetes in Children
http://www.diabetesfamilies.com/
• Kidshealth.org
http://kidshealth.org/kid/diabetes_basics/what/type2.html
• National Diabetes Education Program - Teens
http://www.ndep.nih.gov/teens/
General Information About Diabetes
• American Diabetes Association
• CDC - Diabetes Public Health Resource
• National Diabetes Education Program
Food Deserts and Food Access
• USDA Food Desert Locator
www.ers.usda.gov/data/fooddesert/
• CDC Resource on Food Deserts
www.cdc.gov/Features/FoodDeserts/
• Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food—
Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences:
Report to Congress
www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/AP/AP036/
• A Systematic Review of Food Deserts, 1966-2007
www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2009/jul/08_0163.htm
• Michelle Obama: “Taking on Food Deserts as part of ‘Let’s Move.’” www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/24/taking-food-deserts
• Community Food Security Coalition
www.foodsecurity.org/programs.html
• The Food Trust – Supermarket Campaign &
Healthy Corner Store Initiative -
www.thefoodtrust.org/
• PolicyLink – Improving Access to Healthy Food www.policylink.org/site/c.lkIXLbMNJrE/b.5136643/k.1E5B/
Improving_Access_to_Healthy_Food.htm
• National Good Food Network
www.ngfn.org
• Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development
www.hufed.org
• Fair Food Network
www.fairfoodnetwork.org/
Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Information and Resources
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Racial and
Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Across
the U.S. Program
www.cdc.gov/reach/
• CDC Principles on Community Engagement
www.cdc.gov/phppo/pce/
School Health and Wellness Resources.
• CDC Guidelines buttonshttp://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/multimedia.htm#buttons
Social Enterprise Resources
• ACCION USA
www.accionusa.org
• Social Enterprise Alliance
https://se-alliance.org/
• Funding Ideas for Social Enterprises
www.pbs.org/now/enterprisingideas/get-funding.html
• Starting Up: Funding Your Social Venture
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122124827514029295.html
• Case Studies: Local food and sustainable agriculture initiatives in the US
www.socialenterprise.net/assets/files/REDI_Summary_May_2011.pdf
Statistical Resources
• Current Population Survey – Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS)
www.ers.usda.gov/Data/foodsecurity/cps/
• Bureau of Labor Statistics – Consumer Price Index
www.bls.gov/cpi/
• Consumer Expenditures Survey
www.bls.gov/cex/
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm
• Videonovelas – Type 2 Diabetes
http://healthcare411.ahrq.gov/aprendeavivir.aspx
Additional Resources
• Community Food Security Coalition
www.foodsecurity.org/programs.html
• W.K Kellogg Food and Fitness Collaborative
- Boston, MA
www.bcff-online.org/Pages/Default.aspx
- Holyoke, MA
holyokefoodandfitness.org/
- New York, NY
www.nycfoodandfitness.org/
- Philadelphia, PA
bhcusa.serverdata.net/philadelphia/default.aspx
• Municipal Food Policy Coordinators, Food Policy Councils,
Food Systems Networks
- New York City Food Systems Network
www.foodsystemsnyc.org/
- New Haven Food Policy Council
www.cityofnewhaven.com/Government/FoodCouncil.asp
• City of Hartford Advisory Commission on Food Policy
www.hartford.gov/government/FoodCommission/
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