1. November 8, 2012 Contra Costa County Nutrition Action Plan Gwenn White, Health Educator Contra Costa Health Services Maria Padilla, Senior Health Educator Contra Costa Health Services

2. Our Starting Place…. For the plan – looked at existing CNAPs and modified Orange County’s (THANK YOU!) For the partners – two existing groups Families CAN (Coalition for Activity and Nutrition) Food and Nutrition Policy Consortium

3. What we did to get started Drafted an initial plan and submitted it to our FNS partners Set up our first meeting in August Brought the plan to Families CAN in September and finalized it

4. Our CNAP Partners Contra Costa Certified Farmers’ Market Contra Costa Child Care Council Contra Costa County Community Services Bureau Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services Contra Costa Health Services –Child Health and Disability Prevention –Community Wellness & Prevention Program –Contra Costa Health Plan –Promotora Program –WIC Program –Senior Nutrition Program Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano Healthy and Active Before 5 John Muir/Mt. Diablo Health System Mt. Diablo Unified School District Food Services Department Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market Association Pittsburg Unified School District Food Services Department University of California Cooperative Extension West Contra Costa Unified School District Food Services Department

5. Challenges and Solutions Challenge: getting partners to attend meetings regularly (we are a large county geographically) –Solution: FIELD TRIPS! Challenge: Starting a new group from scratch without adding ‘extra’ work –Solution: Focus on working smarter, not harder, positive attitude, drawing upon already established relationships and goals

6. Our Peer Exchange with San Francisco – we highly recommend it!

7. How the Peer Exchange Helped: We were able to learn in greater detail about our neighbor-County’s program We were able to great ideas and much appreciated advice We discovered that we have the same concerns and challenges

8. Thank You! Contact information: Gwenn White gwenn.white@hsd.cccounty.us 925-313-6829 Maria Padilla maria.padilla@hsd.cccounty.us 925-313-6108