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February Spotlight — Chula Vista
Welcome to healthy Chula Vista, the place where everyone counts! The University of
California San Diego Center for Community Health, the San Diego County Childhood
Obesity Initiative and other community partners offer a collaborative and innovative
nutrition program to connect residents with the resources needed to achieve food
security.
The Chula Vista project team will engage and train city residents through a Resident
Leadership Academy, which has a curriculum designed to build understanding of
systems and root causes of food insecurity. Resident leaders will identify the right level
of intervention and design and implement strategies needed to support local residents.
They have already onboarded 4 promotores, or community health workers, and
engaged them with community residents to support food security and obesity prevention
efforts across Chula Vista. This network builds on the success of the iMas Fresco! More
Fresh Nutrition Incentive Program and the San Diego County Childhood Obesity
Initiative. They also now recruited 10 Resident Leaders and will be conducting their third
of ten Resident Leadership Academy trainings.
What is so incredible about this project team is that through their strong emphasis on
community engagement and facilitative leadership, their project is using the power of
resident leaders, with support of a diverse network of community partners, to leverage
new and existing resources in the city to address and prevent chronic health conditions.
By equipping residents with the necessary tools and strategies to advocate for policy,
systems and environmental change in support of healthy living, improved health
outcomes have never been more possible in the city of Chula Vista!
Check out what one of their resident leaders had to say about their project:
"I love the opportunity to build community! As our community has experienced this
pandemic and the accompanying isolation, this is a great way to connect people. I also
believe this project creates an opportunity to decrease the stress that people are
experiencing and provides an opportunity to focus on things that are within our control."
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