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Preventing Overweight and Obesity
A Guide for Custom Community Intervention Planning

If you think affordable and healthy food choices should be available in stores, schools, or worksites, or if you think physical activity needs to become a part of daily life, this guide will help you design and launch a community plan for achieving your goals.

A community intervention involves the community at the planning, implementing, and evaluating phases.

 Using This Guide

A well-designed community intervention:

• Uses assumptions and techniques that have been validated by current research
  See Tackling the Epidemic, Background
• Is systematically planned
  See Intervention Planning 101
• Relies on proven strategies
  See Case Studies, References, Assessment Tools
• Is evaluated and modified based on evaluation results
  See Evaluation

Use this guide to help ensure that your community intervention to prevent overweight and obesity is research-based and thoughtfully planned.

Next Step: Part 2: Tackling the Epidemic

Last Update 1.11.06

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