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5 1 transportation routes and household access to personal vehicles. He said staff is seeking 2 representation on the transit board. 3 He reviewed the slide information on innovation grants 4 Commissioner Dorosin asked if these are grants given internally to employees of the 5 Health Department. 6 Matthew Kelm said yes 7 He said the second innovative thing done by the Health department was wide angle lens 8 training, which teaches effective framing for public health issues. 9 He defined health literacy as a person's ability to understand health related information, 10 instructions and decisions. He said the goal is to pass a health literacy policy in October and to 11 present data on transportation and health to the Board in March of 2014. 12 He reviewed the timeline slide and invited questions from the Board. 13 Commissioner Gordon asked about complete streets and also transportation and land 14 use planning. 15 Matthew Kelm said data is being looked at to determine existing opportunities. He said 16 someone visited from the planning department to give a primer on complete streets. 17 18 Susan Elmore reviewed the following slides on childhood and family obesity: 19 Childhood & Family Obesity 20 • Obesity continues to be top health concern in Orange County 21 • Primary prevention by working with children and their families is most effective 22 23 - Catalyze partnerships in Orange County 24 - Identify strategies proven to work 25 - Advocate to make the healthy choice the easy choice 26 27 Childhood & Family Obesity 28 Orange County Sportsplex 29 - Work will serve as model for improving food policies at child centered facilities 30 31 • Partnership led to: 32 - Nutritional assessment of all foods sold, with plan for improvements 33 - Removed fried food from camp lunches 34 - Provided over 700 healthy lunches to summer camps 35 • Biggest Nutritional issue was fried food 36 - Exploring replacement of fryer with convection oven. 37 38 Looking Forward (timeline) 39 40 Susan Elmore said less than 50% of the adults in Orange County get the recommended 41 amount of daily exercise, and less than 50% of the adults in Orange County are considered to 42 be of healthy weight. 43 44 Susan Elmore discussed the slide on the successful partnership with the Orange County 45 Sportsplex. She said the hope is that this partnership will serve as a model for improving food 46 policies at other child centered facilities. 47 She reviewed the following priorities in the "looking forward" timeline: Advocate for an 48 afterschool physical activity policy this fall; Identify lactation rooms at the Orange County Health 49 Department clinics in early 2014; Promote child care obesity prevention curriculum in spring of 50 2014; Evaluate Progress made at the Sportsplex in summer 2014.