Meeting Minutes

Action Team Name: ________Physical Activity________________________________

Meeting Date: ______10/24/07_______________

Note Taker name: ____Taraya Gibson________ Telephone #: ___215-685-5272______ e-mail: __taraya.gibson@phila.gov____

Attendees:

Agenda Item Discussion: Main Points Follow-up Actions Responsibility

Introductions Each individual identified their name, organization they None

are representing (if available), area of experience,
expertise, or interest that brought them to this meeting

Previous Meeting Follow-up N/A

New Topics I. Recruitment Contact the segments that were identified in the Angela Jones-
Activity:1) Identify the segments present 2) Identify activity in an attempt to have them present at the next Womack
which segments need be present meeting
**Please refer to the attached document for a list Taraya Gibson
A) Ideas for Recruitment
“Get community partners to help advertise to the
community, flyers without the seal of approval is not as
effective”, “Alternative option of evening meetings”,
“Change of location of meetings”, “Send a representative
to other collaboratives & community meeting to inform
them about PUFFA”, “Everyone bring one member of
the community to the next meeting”

II. Discussion Provide participants with the template in order to

-Need to define terms such as “community member”, identify the next steps
“grassroots”, “bottoms-up”
-Example of system changes “1 day of gym per week
does is not enough, can we work towards developing
a policy that will mandate a specific amount of
physical activity in schools
-Goals of action team
-Identification of groups that participants feel are not
represented
-Description of physical activity action team
-Getting the information that is needed to develop the
action plan
Provide information to the group about these current
III. Current Efforts efforts and identify more current efforts
Activity: Identify current physical activity related efforts
1. Bright Bodies & Smart Moves- Yale University
2. Shape up Sommerville- Sommerville, Massachusetts
3. School District Wellness Policy Implementation Plan
4. Planet Health- Harvard School of Public Health
5. Project Challenge- Baltimore, Maryland
6. Take 10-
7. Philadelphia Physical Alliance

Next Steps Taraya Gibson will forward the minutes from Taraya Gibson
the meeting, the announcement of the next
meeting, and any information regarding data

Synergy: List examples of
synergy provided at meeting
Data/Information Requests
Next Meeting Date
that was requested.
Retrieve information from the other 8 cities Taraya Gibson
YRBRFS, PHMC Household Survey, Data Angela Jones-
Womack
about obesity from Gary Foster- Director of Roy Hoffman
Center for Obesity Research at Temple, School
District of Philadelphia- Joan Nachmani