Request for Proposals

The Network for a Healthy California (Network) invites proposals for the 2012 Network Conference.  The Network Statewide Conference’s overall goals are to accelerate the movement by: 

1. Delivering comprehensive information and training relevant to the transition from Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) to FNS Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Program (NEOP) and the Network’s new focused strategic priorities, to maximize program effectiveness in California.
   
2. Exchanging evidence-based success stories about increasing consumption of healthier foods, increasing physical activity, and increasing healthy beverage choices among California’s seven million low-income parents, children and youth. 
   
3. Strengthening attendees’ cultural, geographic and generational competencies to ensure meaningful community engagement with California’s diverse low-income populations.
   
4. Developing stakeholder partnerships, skills and opportunities to:  leverage resources; implement large-scale, evidence-based, public health approaches; and carry out relevant evaluation.
   

Proposals should address current issues and/or skills development in the area of obesity prevention in low-income Californians through four themed tracks:

Track #1:   Decrease Consumption of Sugary Beverages and Increase Consumption of Water
Strategies: Educating on increasing access to safe drinking water 
                 Nutrition education
                 School, worksite and government procurement and vending
                 Public relations/media relations/marketing campaigns

Track #2:   Increase Consumption of Healthier Foods
Strategies: Access to Federal food programs
                 Cost strategies to increase access
                 Distribution/procurement systems
                 Local retail strategies
                 Marketing

Track #3:   Increase Physical Activity
Strategies: Active transport
                 School physical activity
                 Workplace-based physical activity
                 Zoning and planning

Ticket #4:  Overarching sessions
Topics:      Consistent messaging
                 Community/youth engagement
                 Current and emerging issues
                 Grassroots organizing
                 Partnership building and expansion
                 Promotora/peer to-peer education
                
 

Proposals should also focus on at least one of the following:

Proposals should be operating at one of the following levels of the socio-ecological model:

Who Should Submit Proposals?

The online submission form must be used. We encourage you to develop the descriptions offline before submitting. Apply spell checking and word count features to the description prior to cutting and pasting into the form fields. Submission of a proposal is not a guarantee of its acceptance.

PLEASE NOTE – Survey Monkey will not allow you to print the online form. Please save the offline description for your records.

We encourage diversity in race, ethnicity, gender, age, and perspective/discipline of session participants.
The Network thanks you for your interest, and we look forward to seeing you at the 2012 Network Conference!

Breakout Proposals: CLOSED

Poster Proposals: CLOSED