Strategic Focus: Preventing Youth Obesity
In 2003, the Community Health Partnership (CHP) Board of Directors identified prevention of youth obesity as our organization’s first strategic focus. We believe that addressing the issue of youth obesity is a public health imperative. The stakes are high. The epidemic of youth obesity is compromising the health of our children and undermining their future.
To address the youth obesity epidemic, CHP’s goals are to: increase public awareness of the serious health consequences of being overweight, and develop strategies to assist communities in preventing youth obesity through effective nutrition and fitness policies and activities. Our target audience spans individuals to institutions. It includes parents, educators, legislators, policy makers, the business community, schools, service organizations and community planners.
As an organization, we strongly believe in collaborative efforts to bring about meaningful change. CHP actively partners with numerous organizations that are committed to advocating for effective policies that will yield healthy nutrition and fitness opportunities for Oregon’s children. View our partnerships.
Our current activity is supporting coalitions working to address childhood obesity.
