Healthy People​​
 

Healthy People (CTG Partnership with Spectrum Health) Healthy Eating & Active Living StrategiesOur Healthy Eating/Active Living Advisory Team is developing strategies for a Community Transformation Implementation Plan that will focus on all Kent County residents.  The plan will include policy, environmental and programmatic strategies that will:
• Improve jurisdiction-wide nutrition, physical activity and screen time policies an practices in early child care settings.
• Improve nutrition quality of foods and beverages served or available in schools.
• Increase access to fruits and vegetables in schools.
• Decrease the amount of sodium in foods in schools.
• Reduce access to competitive low nutrition foods and beverages.
• Ensure availability of plain, cold drinking water throughout the day at no cost to students.
• Improve the quality and amount of physical education and physical activity in schools.
• Increase the amount of time students spend in moderate or vigorous physical activity during physical education class.
• Increase the total number of physical activity opportunities implemented at school facilities, including daily recess, intramurals/physical activity clubs, and walk or bicycle to and from school.
• Increase the number of public places (e.g., schools) accessible to the public for physical activity.
Active Living and Healthy Eating innovative strategies.
 Increase opportunities for physical activity in communities and workplaces.
 Community-wide campaigns.
 Access to facilities and places.
 Joint use agreements.
 Flextime.
 Stairwell modification.
 Incentives.

These efforts will support the 2011 Kent County Community Health Needs Assessment strategic priority to “Increase healthy eating by ensuring access to healthy food to promote an environment that supports healthy living for all.”

More information about the Community Transformation Implementation Plan (CTIP) will be shared as the plan is developed.