Healthy Silicon Valley

Afterschool

The sector has a standing agenda and meets within the Santa Clara County After School Collaborative (SCCASC). SCCASC is a network of community based organizations (CBOs), school district and site staff, local government, and concerned citizens who work, or have a stake in, public and privately funded after school programs. In addition to SCCASC’s collective mission to ensure youth, grades K-12, receive high quality, safe and comprehensive programming during the critical hours after school—from 3-6 pm, the sector supports SCCASC in promoting healthy nutrition and physical activity. www.sccasc.org

Sector Leadership
Sector Chair:
Mary Hoshiko

Community

Made up of members from businesses, associations and community organizations, the Community Sector is developing a wellness mentorship program whereby organizations with successful wellness programs support those without wellness programs in the development of model organizational policies and wellness programs. The goal is to increase number of organizations in Silicon Valley who provide wellness programs to employees.

Sector Leadership
Chair:
Kymberli Brady
Co-Chair:
Kerri Hamilton

School Health (Formerly Education Sector)

Healthy Silicon Valley's School Health Sector has a current focus of Coordinated School Health (CSH). The CSH Model serves as a valuable model for children to get more physical activity and nutrition education throughout the school day. Within the sector, members are looking to promote the model for county-wide use throughout the county's 32 school districts and hopefully get an adoption of the model at the county level.

Sector members range from working directly at school sites, working for the County Office of Education, and working with local non-profit and community organizations.

Sector Leadership
Chair:
Michelle Mount
Co-Chair:
Holly Weber

Early Childhood

The Early Childhood Collaborative is coordinated by FIRST5 Santa Clara County. The collaborative’s goal is to implement the strategies as described in the FIRST 5 Santa Clara County Early Childhood Obesity Strategic Plan.

The group is comprised of members from various professions coming together to target obesity in the 0-5 child population. To read the strategic plan, please click here.

Sector Leadership:
Co-Chair:
Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager
Co-Chair:
Dr. Dan Delgado

Food Providers

Healthy Silicon Valley's Food Providers Sector is focused on making all aspects of the food environment more sustainable and healthy for local residents. The sector has divided its work into two main focus areas and one supporting function. The first focus is the Foodways Committee, which advocates for farmland preservation and provides outreach for urban farms. The Healthy Restaurant committee is working to develop a label of approval to identify restaurants and retailers who offer healthy food options to patrons. Nutrition Education and Community Involvement will support the activities of the other committees.

This sector is comprised of individuals from all aspects of the local and sustainable food movement, including farmers, community activists, and community organizations.

Sector Leadership
Chair:
Liz Snyder
Co-Chair:
Luisa Garrett

Government

The sector, constituting representatives from offices of local elected officials and city and county staff, have as their goals to advocate for all city and county employees have access to health and wellness programs, to identify and promote the sharing of best practices amongst cities, ensure common policies are identified, developed and are adopted and implemented regionally, and work with cities to include a health element when they update their General Plans.

Sector Leadership
Chair:
Regina Falkner
Co-Chair:
Adam Henig

Healthcare Community

The goal of the Healthcare sector is to connect clinicians and health care institutions to healthy nutrition and physical activity resources in the community and make this method a standard of care.

Members of this group include community benefit representatives from Santa Clara County hospitals, providers, the City of San Jose, and several community based organizations.

Sector Leadership
Chair:
Dr. Dan Delgado
Co-Chair:
Vacant

Media and Marketing

Have you ever implemented a communications strategy? That is the goal of the Media and Marketing sector. The strategy is rooted in 12 themed months, nine of which come from the popular Fit for Learning Resource Guide developed by the Santa Clara County Office of Education. Each theme carries a different nutrition and/or physical activity related message. Each month is highlighted with the promotion of HSV member organizations, exciting programs, and inviting activities.

The sector is currently comprised of various community organizations, with the addition of organizations directly involved in the above-mentioned communications strategy.

Sector Leadership
Chair:
Warren Hegg
Co-Chair:
Vacant

Nutrition and Physical Activity

The Nutrition and Physical Activity sector is currently working to promote nutrition and physical activity programming at community centers within the City of San Jose. To that end, the sector has been coordinating and hosting "Fruit and Veggie Fun Walks" at the Olinder Neighborhood Center once a month since the beginning of the 2008. The events include a one-mile fun walk, sharing of nutrition and physical activity resources across Santa Clara County, quarterly health screenings, and free produce delivered the following week to residents who attend the weekend event. Partnering with the City of San Jose, the sector is looking to expand their events into other neighborhoods across the city in the near future.

Sector members come from varied professions, including retail, non-profit and community organizations focusing on nutrition, physical activity, general health, and city/county departments.

Sector Leadership:
Chair:
Dan McClure
Co-Chair:
Aby Ryan