A Decade of Advocacy is a case study of the Strategic Alliance, a network of 15 California-based organizations that came together to promote healthy food and activity environments. This document provides a roadmap for effective collaboration, and highlights the impact a group of organizations can have when working together to effect change.

Listen to Prevention Institute's Juliet Sims on Childhood Matters as she covers how policies and environments can support healthy eating and physical activity for kids, families and communities. To learn more about our work on these issues, browse the following resources: Supporting Healthy Food and Activity Environments focus area We're Not Buying It: Stop Junk Food Marketing to Kids (video and petition) Claiming Health: Front-of-Package Labeling of Children's Food Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments webpages

This document details priority areas for action in the following categories: I. Administrative Actions. The Brown Administration can take the following steps to position community prevention as central to the economy, sustainability and equity: a. Defend the Prevention and Public Health Fund. b. Coordinate the State's response to Community Transformation Grants. c. Continue to position health and equity centrally within the Strategic Growth Council. d. Elevate recommendations of the Health in All Policies Taskforce and support implementation. e. Emphasize community-based prevention in

This Strategic Alliance report is based on the premise that everyone should have access to safe places to play and be physically active. The evidence is clear: regular physical activity is critical for healthy mental and physical development, chronic disease prevention, and reducing healthcare costs.

Breastfeeding undeniably has tremendous health benefits for both babies and mothers. Effective breastfeeding messages, however, must go beyond health to highlight the social and cultural context.

In anticipation of Governor Schwarzenegger's Action Summit on Health, Nutrition and Obesity, the Strategic Alliance released a list of recommendations to urge the improvement of healthy food and activity environments in California.

Bay Area Dietetics Association interviews Prevention Institute's Managing Director Leslie Mikkelson on Setting the Record Straight: Nutrition and Health Professionals Define Healthful Food.