Vision
All residents in Silicon Valley will experience optimized health and wellness.
Mission
To foster a culture of health by supporting prevention and wellness activities, increasing physical activity, and promoting healthy nutrition.
The Collaborative Approach
Healthy Silicon Valley has modeled its approach after efforts supported in many parts of the state and country. The collaborative focuses on environmental change strategies utilizing the Spectrum of Prevention as its organizing framework. This model allows HSV to categorize promising interventions in healthy nutrition and physical activity.
To that end, HSV uses a multi-sector approach that has resulted in the development of eight sectors and two sub-sectors. Efforts of all of the sectors have focused on environmental change strategies involving systems change. This attention to systems change has also resulted in the creation of synergies across sectors and sub-sectors which has created efficiency.
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HSV Steering Committee/Leadership
Healthy Silicon Valley's Steering Committee is comprised of chairs from each of HSV's nine sectors and sub-sectors, along with other community professionals. The committee meets monthly and guides the collaborative with leadership and direction, making key decisions around strategic planning, collaborative processes, and policy and advocacy.
Steering Committee Members include:
Candace Roney, Co-Chair
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Dan McClure, Co-Chair
Generations Community Wellness
Kymberli Brady
Bonnie Broderick
Santa Clara County Public Health Department
Dan Delgado
Pediatric Healthy Lifestyle Center
Regina Falkner
City of Los Gatos
Warren Hegg
Digital Clubhouse Network
Becca Barczykowski
YMCA of Silicon Valley
Michelle Mount
Santa Clara County Office of Education
Ashlee Oh
Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara
Jo Seavey-Hultquist
FIRST5 Santa Clara County
Liz Sills
Kaiser Permanente
Aimee Reedy
The Health Trust
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HSV History
In September of 2002, representatives of The California Endowment, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Community Foundation Silicon Valley and The Valley Foundation responded to The Health Trust's interest in exploring how they, as foundations, might facilitate the development of a healthier Santa Clara County.
In 2003, with the Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity, the group of foundations decided to come together to support a project called Healthy Santa Clara County. The collaborative, which later in 2004 gained additional grantmakers, was to address obesity through environmental change that increased individual opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity.
What was Healthy Santa Clara County, became Healthy Silicon Valley has an official name change took place in early 2005. The collaborative to gain resources through STEPS to a Healthier Santa Clara County, the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, and the YMCA.
Early in 2006, the collaborative formalized its structure to include a Steering Committee and a formal membership. The structure of the HSV Collaborative was adapted from the effective model of the Diabetes Coalition of Santa Clara County. The formalized HSV Collaborative was then engaged in completing a Community Action Plan which recognized the effort of those early participants and organizations by incorporating their early contributions within this document.
2007 and 2008 were exciting years for the collaborative. Between that time the collaborative was awarded a two-year, $300,000 grant by the California Endowment to build collaborative capacity. At the same time Healthy Silicon Valley sectors were looking toward specific projects and objectives and successfully obtaining funding for those endeavors. The collaborative also raised awareness around the interconnectedness of health and the environment through their annual Healthy Communities Taking Action Conference (HCTA) in 2008, drawing over 250 health and environmental professionals to San Jose's City Hall. Nearing the end of 2008 the collaborative looked to completing their three-year strategic plan, the document, which is currently in draft form should be completed by early 2009.
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