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/