Crossing Oceans and Moving Mountains: Reflections from CLOCC’s Founder
by Katherine Kaufer Christoffel, MD, MPH, Founder and Medical and Research Director At the CLOCC holiday dinner this year, I had the chance to present a short talk to reflect on and celebrate nine...
View ArticleRevealing the Research: 10 Years of Being Data-Driven and Evidence-Based
by Adam Becker, PhD, MPH, Executive Director Happy New Year! 2012 is an especially happy new year for CLOCC as it marks our 10th year as a Consortium collaborating on childhood obesity prevention in...
View ArticlePlanting a Seed (Grant) and Watching It Grow
by Amy Bohnert, PhD, Guest Blogger As part of our 10th anniversary first-quarter focus on data and research, we asked 2006 seed grant recipient Amy Bohnert, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology at...
View ArticleWhat Makes CLOCC Tick: 10 Years of Community Partnerships
by Adam Becker, PhD, MPH, Executive Director Partners and friends, April marks the beginning of the second quarter of our 10th anniversary year! This quarter, we are focusing on two of the hallmarks of...
View ArticleDePaul Students Enhance Evaluation, Schools, and Advocacy Work at CLOCC
by Elizabeth Katta, Meredith Jones, and Carolyn Jillson, Guest Bloggers For the past two years, CLOCC has served as a 9-month practicum site for Master of Public Health students from DePaul University....
View ArticleCatching Up With the Go Team
From 2006 – 2008, CLOCC ran a pilot program where we trained high school students from across the city to become members of the “Go Team,” a group charged with teaching the 5-4-3-2-1 Go!® message to...
View ArticleMaking Connections: Ten Years of Unique Partnerships
by Adam Becker, PhD, MPH, Executive Director Welcome to the third quarter of our 10th anniversary year! This quarter, we are focusing on one of the things that makes our consortium truly unique – the...
View ArticleLooking Back and Looking Forward: Our Tenth Year and Beyond
by Adam Becker, PhD, MPH, Executive Director Welcome to the fourth and final quarter of our 10th anniversary year! I hope you have found this year to be an exciting review of our decade of the...
View ArticleTurning Wellness Policies into Action at a Healthy Teacher Network Workshop
by Rodney Tripplett, School Programs Intern On November 27, 2012, CLOCC’s Healthy Teacher Network hosted a workshop with the theme Wellness Policies into Action: Making Healthy Students Happen that was...
View ArticleCLOCC Released a Blueprint – Now What?
by Adam Becker, PhD, MPH, Executive Director On January 8, CLOCC released a Blueprint for Accelerating Progress in Childhood Obesity Prevention in Chicago: The Next Decade. The blueprint was developed...
View ArticlePuppets Promoting Prevention: Consulting with the Research and Evaluation...
by Joy Menhennett, Guest Blogger We asked Joy Menhennett, Food and Nutrition Education Coordinator for La Casa Norte in Chicago, to write about her experience consulting with the CLOCC Research and...
View ArticleReflections on 2013
by Adam Becker, PhD, MPH, Executive Director As 2013 comes to a close, I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for another wonderful year of partnership and collaboration. This was a year of...
View ArticleSupporting the Blueprint at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School
By Dennis Peters, Guest Blogger Dennis Peters is a physical education teacher at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School in Chicago. Belmont-Cragin Elementary School is a PK-8 school located on the northwest...
View ArticlePromoting “Salud”: CLOCC Focuses on Latino Health
By Jaime Arteaga, CLOCC Community Programs Coordinator, and Daney Ramirez, CLOCC Food Environment Coordinator On February 7, 2014. DePaul University hosted the Health Disparities and Social Justice...
View ArticleMaking a Splash: Perspectives Middle Academy’s Water Challenge
By Amissah Seals, ELEV8 Program Manager, and Nichole Edmonds, CLOCC Community Programs Coordinator Though Perspectives Middle Academy (PMA) encourages its scholars to live healthy lifestyles by...
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