Good Day and Thank You!
The UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative Envisioned and Supported by Jane and Terry Semel
Healthy Campus Initiative “Make the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice” As Chancellor Block said in honor of UCLA going smoke free on Earth Day: “In order to take care of the Earth, we must take care of ourselves . ”
What are the Healthy Campus Initiative Core Values? High level wellness • maximizing the potential of individuals Personal • freedom and autonomy responsibility • social groups define health differently; Diversity however they define it is “right” • strive to reduce health disparities as much as Equity possible • Body, mind and spirit are mutually influencing Integrative and emerge in a communal context
Organizations & Institutions Community/Neighborhood Media Law Deans Friends/Family Chancellors Coworkers Health Public Popular Community Care Friends Parks Culture leaders Student, Staff, Faculty Providers Neighbors Professors Family Employers Family Universities Culture Farmers Public Policies
In order to Live Well we aim to: Integrate • Mindwell, Eatwell, Bewell, Movewell, Breathwell Educate • Future and Current Leaders in our community. Support • Our graduates who will lead us in the future to Live Well. Grow • And share our work with our local, state, national and international community. Inspire • Healthful living through creating a campus where “the healthy choice is the easy choice”
Integrate Move Well UCLA FI Live Be Eat Well Well Well UCOP GFI Breathe Mind Well Well
Support Faculty and Senior Administrator Innovation • Innovative Courses. • Pilot Research Projects UCLA Vending Machine Evaluation. • In development: small seed grants for graduate and undergraduate students in Food Studies.
Support The Healthy Choice is the Easy Choice • Bruin Plate • Interstitial gardens • Food Studies Minor and Certificate Program • Food Literacy
Grow & Inspire UCOP Global Food Initiative
UCOP Global Food Initiative • Work together across the UC system to create solutions that improve food security, health and sustainability at UC – our campuses, medical centers and national labs – and through California, the U.S. and the world • Identify best practices to address food needs and create toolkits to share locally and globally • Use the latest UC research to help communities access healthy, sustainable food • Apply UC expertise to shape and drive food policy discussions
UCOP Global Food Initiative • Launched in July 2014, • Addresses one of the critical issues of our time: how to sustainably and nutritiously feed a world population expected to reach eight billion by 2025. • More than 20 working groups are underway developing best practices and toolkits to deploy across UC and share widely throughout California, the nation and the world.
UCOP Global Food Initiative Initial areas of focus include: • CURRICULA • OPERATIONS • SERVICE • RESEARCH • POLICY http://universityofcalifornia.edu/global-food-initiative
UCOP Global Food Initiative Initial areas of focus include: • Expanding campus CURRICULA and community education around food issues, including food equity, supply, production, distribution and consumption. • Improving food OPERATIONS to leverage food purchasing power, encourage sustainable farming, empower small growers, and result in zero waste dining. • Broadening nutritious and sustainable food access and SERVICE by working with school districts on K-12 dining options, establishing regular farmers markets on campuses, and creating a student meal sharing program. • http://universityofcalifornia.edu/global-food-initiative
UCOP Global Food Initiative Initial areas of focus include: • Identifying RESEARCH strengths, gaps and opportunities in food and sustainable agriculture, and evaluating urban agriculture for reducing food disparities and increasing food security in low-income and underserved neighborhoods; and • Deploying UC’s research to shape, impact and drive POLICY discussions around food and agriculture, and elevating food equity as a priority from a wide range of perspectives including public health, immigration, and environment. http://universityofcalifornia.edu/global-food-initiative
Grow & Inspire California, Nationally and Internationally
www.healthy.ucla.edu
UC Global Food Initiative • http://universityofcalifornia.edu/global-food-initiative
With realization of one’s own potential and self confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world. Dalai Lama
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