Strategic Focus: Preventing Youth Obesity
Overview of Oregon Coalitions
to Achieve Healthy Weight for Children
Five Oregon coalitions, with the support and/or leadership of Community Health Partnership: Oregon's Public Health Institute are taking action to prevent and reduce childhood obesity.
Increasing rates of extended breastfeeding are acknowledged by experts, increasing fruit and vegetable consumption by children, reducing screen time of children, decreasing access to junk food in schools and increasing physical activity in schools – nationally and in Oregon – as critical strategies for reducing the rate of childhood obesity.1,2
In Oregon, the five broad-based coalitions addressing these critical issues are:
- Breastfeeding Coalition of Oregon (BCO) works to establish breastfeeding as the cultural norm in Oregon.
- Oregon’s Fruit and Vegetable Partnership forges working relationships with key government agencies, industry and private sector groups, the health community and nonprofit groups in order to leverage resources and mobilize professionals at the state and local levels to increase Oregonian’s daily consumption of vegetables and fruits.
- Healthy Kids Watch Less TV Coalition (HKWLTV) works to improve the health and wellbeing of children and their families through reducing screen time.
- Oregon Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity (OCPAP) works to promote physical activity opportunities for all Oregonians.
- Oregon Nutrition Policy Alliance (ONPA) works to increase the awareness about the impact of nutrition and physical activity on the health of Oregonians, and to promote policy that creates a healthy, active Oregon.
