FULL POTENTIAL 2009: Actions on Obesity
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FULL POTENTIAL 2009: Actions on Obesity An update to: FACTS ABOUT GROWING UP HEALTHY IN FRANKLIN COUNTY: 2008 Collaborative Children’s Health Report Table of Contents Reaching Their Full Potential ................................1 OSU College of Education, Department of Moving Forward ..................................................2 Human Nutrition, OSU Extension .....................15 The Launch of Full Potential .................................3 YMCA of Central Ohio .........................................16 Actions on Obesity: Community Update ..............4 Stambaugh Family Continues Weight Loss Children’s Hunger Alliance ...................................5 Success .............................................................18 Columbus City Schools ........................................7 Nationwide Children’s Hospital ............................20 Danny Gwirtz Finds Self-confi dence at Critical Funders ....................................................26 Healthier Weight ...............................................10 Ohio Business Roundtable: Advocating for Columbus Public Health.......................................12 Children’s Health ..............................................27 Ohio Action for Healthy Kids ................................14 Recommendations for Addressing Pediatric Obesity .............................................................28 Reaching Their Full Potential CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION ON PEDIATRIC OBESITY n 2008, Nationwide Children’s Hospital was honored to collaborate with 20 community partners to create Full IPotential: Facts About Growing Up Healthy in Franklin County, 2008 Collaborative Children’s Health Report. This inaugural report identifi ed 10 critical indicators for our children’s health. Each issue was explored with insights from local experts and brought to life by the stories of children and families affected. Pediatric obesity rose to the forefront in the report as the most signifi cant obstacle impeding the current and future ability of our children to reach their full potential. The initial report clearly defi ned the need for interventions and the opportunity to partner. For 2009, we have again collaborated with local resources to deliver this update report highlighting strategies within our community to reduce the incidence of childhood obesity. Nationwide Children’s has actively joined this effort and we are excited to report on several new initiatives. Most notable for us is the launch of our Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Families (HNHF) program. Modeled after successful urban revitalization programs from across the country, HNHF presents a multi-pronged approach to addressing barriers to health and well-being for the thousands of families surrounding our downtown campus. Combating childhood obesity is a foundational element of our HNHF health platform, creating new partnerships with area neighborhood associations, Columbus City Schools, Columbus Health Department and many others. We are fortunate to have many community partners included in this report representing health care, education, social services, government, business and foundations. All are reaching outside their own systems to work with other organizations to address the obesity issue. Collaboration is key, because, while obesity is a nationwide epidemic, its remedies will be discovered locally by organizations working together to develop and test many new ideas. This is precisely what is happening in Franklin County now, as refl ected on these pages. During 2008, the organizations represented in this report were involved in a signifi cant number of programs that brought opportunities for making healthy changes to children and families in central Ohio. In addition to the benefi ts these programs are creating in our community, they hold the potential to extend beyond the borders of the state. A concerted effort is being made to report information and best practices nationwide, and what we do in Franklin County may one day inform a national model for the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity. Nationwide Children’s thanks our partners for their commitment and actions on obesity. Ours is a “can do” community, supported by a wealth of institutional knowledge and expertise, as well as the capacity and desire to tap wide-ranging points of view. Together, we can craft a better future for our children. Please read on to learn how Nationwide Children’s and our community partners are working to combat childhood obesity. Steve Allen, MD Chief Executive Offi cer Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus, Ohio Page 1 Moving Forward TO ADDRESS CHILDHOOD OBESITY olumbus remains committed to creating safe and healthy environments for our residents, especially children, and so Cwe are proud to be part of Full Potential 2009: Actions on Obesity. While central Ohio has among the nation’s highest levels of childhood obesity, diabetes and heart disease, we also understand the benefi ts of early childhood prevention and wellness initiatives as critical components in helping our children fi ght these diseases. Several promising initiatives have been launched or further developed since the 2008 Full Potential report, each depending on the involvement and support of community partners. Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Families is an exciting partnership between the City of Columbus and Nationwide Children’s Hospital to focus on neighborhood revitalization in Columbus’ South Side. In addition, my offi ce created the Institute for Active Living with Columbus Public Health. The Institute shares a common vision with Nationwide Children’s and we will work together, sharing data, expertise and people, to move forward. Columbus Public Health initiatives, including Healthy Children, Healthy Weights and Healthy Places, demonstrate results-oriented work to reduce childhood obesity. We can also be proud that Columbus City Schools now has all-water vending in its middle and high schools. I want to thank all our community partners for continuing to focus on broad-based measures to address the obesity epidemic. Michael B. Coleman Mayor Columbus, Ohio Page 2 The Launch of Full Potential Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Full Potential pediatric obesity initiative was launched at a community breakfast at the Columbus Convention Center on May 1, 2008. That morning, we also released the report Full Potential: Facts About Growing Up Healthy in Franklin County, 2008 Collaborative Children’s Health Report. The report can be downloaded at www.NationwideChildrens.org/FullPotential. Hard copies may be requested online as well. 1 The report, developed in partnership with Columbus Public Health and more than 20 other community agencies, highlighted 10 indicators presenting critical preventable health threats for Franklin County children. A number of vital issues affecting our community’s children were worthy of focus. The following 10 threats, however, were called out in the 2008 report as particularly pressing: - Infant Mortality 2 - Immunization - Asthma - Teen Smoking - Teen Pregnancy - Unintentional Injuries - Adolescent Suicide - Adolescent Homicide - Access to Health Care - Obesity 1 | Full Potential: Facts About Growing Up Healthy in Franklin County, 2008 Collaborative Children’s Health Report 2 | Find out the facts about childhood obesity. 3 | Learn what leaders representing health care, business and government have to say about the obesity issue’s implications 3 and solutions. Page 3 Actions on Obesity: Community Update Overview of Key Programs In the 2008 Full Potential report, we concluded the discussion of pediatric obesity with a series of During the past year, an exciting number and recommendations* for families, schools, health variety of signifi cant programs and initiatives and social service organizations, communities and focused on pediatric obesity prevention or society to effectively “tip the scales” in the management have been taking place in opposite direction on pediatric obesity. Franklin County. While the organizations included in this report Overwhelmingly, our community recognizes did not set out specifi cally to meet these the magnitude of the obesity epidemic – it recommendations, they have addressed many challenges our children’s ability to reach their of them through programs offered during the current and future potential, and it threatens past year. For each organization covered in to overcome our health and human service this report, we have called out the organizations, employers and other institutions. recommendations addressed by their Together, we can prevent this from happening. programs, resources or advocacy**. The community response, as represented in this For the full list of recommendations from the report, demonstrates an encouraging resolve to 2008 Full Potential report, see page 28. create effective evidence-based treatment and prevention programs supported by committed funding sources in an environment of continual * These recommendations were developed by physicians in the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition and incorporate several advocacy on behalf of children. recommendations from Healthy & Fit: A Community Action Plan for Franklin County Children & Families, a publication of the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations and Children’s Hunger Alliance. **Effort has been made to include many signifi cant organizations and programs in this report; however, it is not an exhaustive list of all the organizations and programs addressing the issue of childhood obesity in Franklin