Healthy Silicon Valley is always looking to grow its reach and its collaborative presence. Below you will find outreach materials in the form of a brochure and PowerPoint that tell a story of how HSV is helping to make a positive change in Silicon Valley, how HSV came to be, current projects HSV is working on, and how you can get involved or tell others about the collaborative. Feel free to print, use, and distribute the materials to all of your friends, co-workers, and colleagues.

Five leading area grant makers met in the fall of 2003 to work collectively and unite resources on an effort to impact the health and well being of Santa Clara County residents. This unique attempt at bringing together the diversity in philosophy and funding priorities of each organization resulted in a commitment to an initiative addressing the community's growing concern regarding obesity. In the spring of 2004 two additional funders joined the effort.

In January of 2004, leaders from more than forty community organizations came together for a series of strategic planning sessions, under the guidance of Samuels and Associates, Inc., a leading public health evaluation, research and policy consulting firm. The diversity of the participating community organizations reflects the broad scope of Healthy Silicon Valley's collaborative approach. The result of the strategic planning sessions was a comprehensive logic model, helping set goals and strategy for Healthy Silicon Valley in five different sectors; schools, community, health care, government, business.

Healthy Silicon Valley recognizes the necessity of building partnerships to create a healthier community. In February 2005, HSV hosted a resource mapping meeting to facilitate an understanding of agencies' objectives, programs and resources directed towards obesity prevention and to identify areas for possible collaboration. From this meeting, a leadership team was developed to strategically assess how agencies throughout Santa Clara County can join forces to strengthen the ability of individuals to make healthy choices on diet and exercise.

Collaborative Working to Improve Opportunities for Physical Activity and Nutrition

Early in 2006, the Healthy Silicon Valley Collaborative formalized its structure to include, in addition to its current Advisory Board, 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. During the past 3 years, over 100 organizations and individuals have participated in collaborative meetings to develop a Community Action Plan to address obesity in Silicon Valley.

NEXT STEPS

Implementation Planning

The Community Action Plan is envisioned as a launching point to the next step in addressing obesity in our community. This document is not meant to be inclusive of all the possible strategies and actions steps that may be utilized to impact this epidemic. It is meant to stimulate the next phase in the work of the HSV Collaborative - to engage in implementation planning among the various sectors described, to seek resources to begin interventions and to implement those interventions that will lead to successful outcomes and the healthy community we seek.

Getting Involved

Moving forward, Healthy Silicon Valley recognizes the importance of engaging individuals and organizations from all sectors. We encourage you to review the strategies and action steps identified in this document in an effort to determine which recommended strategies you or your organization are currently implementing and to identify new strategies you or your organization can implement.

We challenge you to make a formal commitment to participate in the HSV collaborative. To join the collaborative, complete the "Healthy Silicon Valley Member Statement of Agreement." As an HSV collaborative member, you will have the opportunity to work with other individuals and organizations across the priority areas to implement the Community Action Plan. Through a coordinated, collaborative effort, we will be able to maximize resources and achieve the greatest impact in Santa Clara County. We look forward to the change we will create.

In the summer of 2004, the Healthy Silicon Valley Advisory Board was created to provide oversight of the initiative's objectives, goals and measurable outcomes. The Board is comprised of community health leaders from partner agencies.

Don Bolce
Assistant Director
Center for Educational Planning
Santa Clara County Office of Education

Debra David, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Service Learning
San Jose State University

Pattie DeMelloPine, R.N.
Chief of Staff to Supervisor Liz Kniss,
Chair, County Board of Supervisors

Marty Fenstersheib, MD.
Medical Director
County of Santa Clara Public Health Department

Ashlee Oh
Community Benefit Manager
Kaiser Permanente

William Parrish, Jr.
Chief Executive Officer
Santa Clara Medical Association

Candace Roney
Executive Director, Community Services
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford

Steve Berta
Director Health Education/Safe Schools...Santa Clara County Office of Education

Ashlee Y. Oh, MPA
Community Benefit & Community Health Manager Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara

Elizabeth Sills
Community Benefits Manager, Kaiser Permanente San Jose

Mary Hoshiko
Vice President of Program and Community Development YMCA of Santa Clara Valley

Marjorie Freedman
Assistant Professor, Dept of Nutrition and Food Science, San Jose State University

Warren C. Hegg
Founder and President, Digital Clubhouse Network

Dan McClure
Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Candace Roney MPA
Executive Director, Community Partnerships Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Maria Giovanni, Ph.D.
Nutrition Family and Consumer Sciences Advisor University of California Cooperative Extension Santa Clara County

Bonnie Broderick
Health Care Program Manager, County of Santa Clara Public Health Department

Kymberli Brady
Director of Community Relations and Public Affairs, San Jose Chamber of Commerce