CLOCC-Led Projects
Here are a selection of current and past projects led or co-led by CLOCC:
5-4-3-2-1 Go!
5-4-3-2-1 Go! is CLOCC's healthy lifestyle message for children and families. We support it through trainings, downloadable materials, and more.
Healthy Places
Healthy Places is a joint initiative between the Chicago Department of Public Health and CLOCC, focusing on policy, systems, and environmental change in the city.
Community Organizing for Obesity Prevention (CO-OP)
Community Organizing for Obesity Prevention (CO-OP) is the key strategy for CLOCC's community-level work. The model was developed by the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, the Sinai Urban Health Institute, and CLOCC. The CO-OP strategy seeks to build a network of community
groups and individuals, medical facilities, and elected
officials to create awareness of obesity and related illnesses,
and to create community-based solutions to the obesity epidemic.
CO-OP: Humboldt Park
For more information on CO-OP Humboldt Park, call the Puerto Rican Cultural Center
at 773-278-6737.CO-OP: Englewood
The CO-OP model has been extended to Englewood. For more information, call Doris Jones
at Teamwork Englewood at 773-602-4507.CO-OP: Pilsen
CO-OP Pilsen focuses on childhood obesity prevention on the Lower West Side. For more information, contact Araceli Garza at El Valor at araceli.garza@elvalor.net.
Healthy Teacher Network
The Healthy Teacher Network is a group of teachers from across Chicago learning how to promote healthy eating and physical activity in their classroom and school from professionals in the field.
Chicago Faith-based Advocacy to Improve and Transform Health (Chicago FAITH)
The Chicago Faith-based Advocacy Initiative to Transform Health (Chicago FAITH) brought together diverse denominations into a coalition focused on the role of faith communities in childhood obesity prevention.
The Chicago FAITH coaltion worked to enhance its capacity to advocate for childhood-obesity prevention
policy, environment, and systems change. For more information, contact Christine Bozlak at 312-4573-7741.
Healthy Foods, Healthy Moves: InForm Chicago
Healthy Foods, Healthy Moves: InForm Chicago built healthier communities by promoting the importance of good nutrition and physical activity to Chicago youth of all ages in both school and community settings. It was a partnership between Communities In Schools of Chicago (CISC) and
CLOCC. InForm Chicago worked to reduce child overweight in Chicago using CLOCC's healthy
lifestyle message - 5-4-3-2-1 Go! - promoted in a variety of settings. This unique project trained teens, school staff, and neighborhood program providers to be nutrition and physical activity message ambassadors to support good choices for a healthy lifestyle.
Program Implementation Grants
Here is a complete list of CLOCC Program Implementation Grant recipients.
Apply
for a Program Implementation Grant here.
