Creating Healthy Communities College of Health and Human

Creating Healthy Communities College of Health and Human Development Presented by: Dianne Philibosian, Director Building campus-community connections to promote healthy living and prepare the workforce of tomorrow. Where Community Matters Sylvia A. Alva, Dean

College of Health and Human Development Where Community Matters

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“Health and wellbeing are at the very core of our quality of life, and so much affects our health: lifestyle choices, the economy, our environment, even public policy."

Through the Institute we build campus community connections to promote healthy living.

Today’s example: a critical community health issue: Obesity.

A few statistics: Overweight children in California: 11.5% Children diagnosed with diabetes in California 0.3% Over we in LA ight childr Coun e ty: 23 n % (about 2000 in 780,000) Overweight adults in LA County: 22% Overweight adults in California: 18-20% Adults in California diagnosed with diabetes: 8.5% Adults diagnosed with diabetes in LA County: 10.0%

Five-years of overweight: as much as 24,000 per person Weight to lose for improvements to start: only 5% to 7% What works: nutrition and exercise, as always. Today: obese adults in the US: 34% 20 years from now: 50% Overweight children overweight adults diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis

Obesity Risk Factor Trends 1990 2000 2010 No No Data 10% 10%–14% 15%–19% 20%–24% 25%–29% 30%

What are we doing about it?

Community Partners LAUSD Northridge Hospital Medical Center Local schools: Cohasset, Anatola, Gault USDA & HUD Grant

My Plate: portion control Nutrient balance Parent educatio n Nutrition and fitness celebration!

Ask the Dietitian Farmers Market Canoga Park Marilyn Magaram Center LA Public Health

Nutrition Assessment The BodPod Measures body fat % Accuracy: 99%

A Woolly Garden: Grow food on the schoolyard!

Fitness returns to the schools with Kinesiology students and faculty. HUD grant

New CSUN ExerCircuit Available 24 hours a day! Support: Alumnus Shlomi Golan Kaiser Permanente CSUN community

And – there is more yet

The Aquatic Center at Castaic Lake and Counseling Center in Educational Psychology Teaching, Learning and Counseling Language, Speech and Hearing CenterConsortium Center for Teaching and Learning Berke Assessment Clinic and Library and Ethics Center of Center forAchievement Health Promotion, Research, Marilyn Magaram Center CSUN Autism Center Food Educational Therapy Program for Science, Nutrition and Dietetics Center for Cancer and Developmental Center for Recreation and Tourism Biology Family Focus Resource Klotz Student Health CenterEmpowerment Center Music Therapy WellnessIntervention Center Center for Educational and Therapy Consumer Resource Center LA Times Literacy Center The Child and Family Studies Center Physical Therapy Center Mitchell Family Counseling Clinic Valley Trauma Center for Advanced Clinical Practice Special Education Literacy Lab

www.csun.edu Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing

Where Community Matters: The College of Health and Human Development and the Institute build campus-community connections to promote healthy living – with you!

Creating Healthy Communities College of Health and Human Development Sylvia A. Alva, Dean Dianne Philibosian, Director Presentation by Jean O’Sullivan HHD Public Affairs/ Communications 2011