Beginning in 2011 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gave nearly $200 million dollars in Community Transformation Grants (CTG) to help communities design and implement programs to prevent chronic disease. California had the great fortune to be awarded multiple grants, with fourteen recipients receiving a total of $35,260,215. This funding provided an opportunity for California to take significant strides in addressing chronic diseases through efforts aimed at creating healthier communities. Despite the termination of the CTG program in the 2014 federal budget, there is much to learn and celebrate in the accomplishments and successes of California’s grantees.

This Web Forum will share some of the successes and lessons learned from four CTG sites’ healthy eating and active living activities. Healthy eating interventions are nutrition-focused strategies addressing nutrition policies, standards, and guidelines as well as interventions promoting access to healthy foods and beverages. Active living interventions target increasing the availability of physical activity opportunities for community members. Join in to hear Program Leads discuss what makes a successful program work and how to build upon this momentum. New CDC grantees will gain valuable insight and interested stakeholders will have an opportunity to understand the impact of prevention funding in California examples.

Any program striving towards encouraging healthy eating and active living through policy, system, and environmental change efforts will have knowledge to glean from the experience, successes and challenges of projects from California’s CTG sites.