Arlington County Board Chairman Rallies Community to Help ...

January 17, 2013

• J. Walter Tejada kicks off 2013 Moving Forward Together initiative
• Community invited to join coalition
• Grant funding supports projects to reduce childhood obesity

ARLINGTON, Va. ?? ?Arlington County Board Chairman J. Walter Tejada today kicked off his Moving Forward Together Campaign with a community meeting to discuss specific multi-year projects aimed at reducing chronic disease in Arlington?s youth.

?Moving Forward Together is a broad effort to improve the health of all community members, beginning with our young children,? Tejada said at the kick-off event at Fairlington Community Center. ?We invite you to join us as we work with our FitArlington partners on ways to bring healthier eating, physical activity, and fun to our community, with special attention to preventing childhood obesity. We welcome new partners to join the Arlington Healthy Community Action coalition. Together we can ensure the continuity of efforts, food sustainability, and many other actions that help reduce childhood obesity.?

Moving Forward Together

Arlington County will work with volunteer coalition and community members to:

• Provide healthy? foods and movement initiatives for pre-schoolers
• Get kids moving during recess and after-school programs
• Establish new healthy vending options
• Train licensed childcare providers on nutrition and physical activity
• Establish new community gardens
• Provide the opportunity to adopt-a-site as a Master Food Volunteer

County wins Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth grant

To support this effort, Arlington County received a Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth (VFHY) grant. The grant will support the County?s effort to prevent childhood obesity by strengthening the existing ???Action Communities for Health, Innovation and EnVironmental ChangE? (ACHIEVE) community coalition, and by addressing both community food access and physical activity for preschool and school-age children.? Additional funding is available from a block grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the State of Virginia?s Obesity Prevention through Health Communities Projects is available to support an increase in the frequency, duration, and intensity of physical activity for youth in Arlington afterschool and camp programs.

For more information about the Arlington Healthy Community Action Team (HCAT) or how to get involved, contact Kara Grace, MPH, Community Health Promotions Programmer with Arlington County?s Department of Parks and Recreation at 703-228-6401 or Kgrace@arlingtonva.us.

In his term as Arlington County Board Chairman, Tejada?s Moving Forward Together Initiative?s central themes are diversity, sustainability, health, and inclusion, with a focus on affordable housing, fitness and health, urban agriculture, and pedestrian and bicycle safety.

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Arlington, Va., is a world-class residential, business and tourist location that was originally part of the "10 miles square" parcel of land surveyed in 1791 to be the Nation's Capital. It is the geographically smallest self-governing county in the United States, occupying slightly less than 26 square miles. Arlington maintains a rich variety of stable neighborhoods, quality schools and enlightened land use, and received the Environmental Protection Agency's highest award for "Smart Growth" in 2002. Home to some of the most influential organizations in the world - including the Pentagon - Arlington stands out as one of America's preeminent places to live, visit and do business.

Source: http://news.arlingtonva.us/releases/arlington-county-board-chairman-rallies-community-to-help-reduce-childhood-obesity

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