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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, between the City of Long Beach and the California Department of Public Health for the continuation of the Healthy Active Long Beach Project, under the Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Grant, to accept funding in the amount of $2,818,362 for a period of three years, October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2019; and execute any necessary documents, sub-grants, or subsequent amendments to extend or increase the contract amount. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Since October 2003, the City Council has authorized the Health and Human Services Department (Health Department) to receive funding from the California Department of Public Health Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Branch (CDPH) to operate the Healthy Active Long Beach (HALB) project. The CDPH has now awarded the Health Department a grant agreement in the amount of $2,818,362, to continue the project’s focus on preventing nutrition and activity-related chronic diseases and improving food security and access to healthy food options among persons eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) throughout the City.
The grant provides SNAP-Ed eligible individuals who have high-risk factors for nutrition-related chronic diseases, such as obesity, with nutrition education and obesity prevention activities and interventions focusing on the promotion of healthy eating habits and physically active lifestyles in order to postpone, or prevent, the onset of disease.
As a local Health Department, funded by the USDA Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Grant Program (NEOP), the Health Department’s HALB project will serve as the lead agency responsible for coordinating NEOP-funded activities throughout the City’s health jurisdiction.
The HALB project will implement strategies at the individual and policy level, incorporating an environmental approach to address the physical and social char...
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