Kristie Rauter, Community Health Improvement Planner from the Wood County Health Department, presented on Get Active Wood County, an initiative aimed at obesity prevention at the Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation's Annual Gathering event. She spoke about the collaboration between the Health Department, local businesses, schools and non-profit organizations to create a healthier Wood County.

1. PRESENTED BY:
Kristie Rauter
Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation | Marshfield, Wi
September 24th, 2013
Systems, Environmental and Policy
Changes in Wood County Schools,
Worksites, and Communities.
Thinking differently about your surroundings.
Funding made possible by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Wood County Health Department.

2. Wood County
Location
Local
economics:
Cranberries,
Paper mills
medical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla

3. At least 30 minutes of daily P.A., reducing screen time
standards, and provide healthy snacks (~500 students)
• South Wood County YMCA, Marshfield Area YMCA, and Boys
and Girls Club passed policies
• YouthNet includes supportive language in parent handbook
Afterschool Program Providers

4. Wellness Policies (Nutrition and Physical Activity) and
Garden Implementation (~1,600 children)
• 21/22 sites have new/enhanced nutrition policies
• 16/22 sites new/enhanced physical activity policies
• 28 sites have gardens
Childcare Centers

5. Marshfield, Wisconsin Rapids, Pittsville, Auburndale, Nekoosa,
Port Edwards (~12,500 students)
• 3/6 districts have passed policy—3/6 are in progress
(Auburndale, Wisconsin Rapids, Marshfield)
• 6/6 districts participating in farm to school (15,000 lbs. produce)
• 6/6 districts implemented gardens/greenhouses/orchards
• 5/6 districts making changes to competitive food environment
• 6/6 districts with nutrition and P.A. based afterschool programming
Schools

6. • Food Service Director Quarterly Meetings
• Harvest of the Month - Taste Testing, Lunch
Line
• Knife Training for Food Service Staff
• Meet Your Farmer
• Local Alert
• Processing Facility

8. Meet Your Farmer

9. Local Alert

10. Processing Facility

11. Gardens and Greenhouses

12. Lincoln High School Greenhouse

13. Lincoln High School students grow lettuce to be
used in the lunch line

14. Grant Funding
Worksite Wellness
•Developed wellness policies within worksites
•Linked to worksite wellness network

15. Grant Funding
Social Physical Activity (Thao Sisters)
Need a champion to lead network, get it started to become self-
sustaining
Cultural, men are head of house
2gether

16. Grant Funding
• Environmental change to increase access to
physical activity
• Social support networks to change behaviors
• Limiting screen time
• Policy changes that create physical activity
opportunities
2gether

17. Grant Funding
• Community Supported
Agriculture
• Healthy Vending
• Healthy Catering

18. Community
Grant Funding
Gardens
• 40 school and community garden sites and
5 school greenhouses
• Partnering with Food Pantries

19. Electronic Benefits Transfer
Grant Funding
• 75% of farmers markets in Wood
County now accept Food Share
•Over $4,000 Food Share dollars
were spent at the Wisconsin Rapids
Farmers Market in the 2011 season
•The Double Value program in
October brought a 61% increase in
participation and 71% more dollars
to local market vendors

20. Smart Meal
Grant Funding
• Restaurant Assessments
• Menu Calc Analysis
• Menu Labeling and Printing
• More than 10% of County Restaurants

21. Restaurants will label healthy meals on menu (~75,000)
• 13 restaurants currently participating
• 11 interested and in process
Smart Meal

22. Smart Meal

23. Shared Use
Grant Funding
•Wisconsin Rapids: Opportunity Development Centers, Inc
•Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools
•City of Wisconsin Rapids Parks and Recreation
•Lowell Center
•Wal-Mart
•Wisconsin Rapids Mall
•Nekoosa Community Center
•Marshfield: Opportunity Development Centers, Inc
•Good Shepherd Lutheran Church – Marshfield
•City of Marshfield - City Hall
•Shoppes at Woodridge
•Pick 'N Save
•Shopko
•Target
•Fleet Farm
In Wood County, shared use includes schools,
churches, malls, hotels and any other buildings which
have areas that could be utilized for physical activity
or nutrition purposes.

24. Active Communities
Grant Funding
Focus on the built environment and non-
motorized vehicle transportation.
-Trail systems
-Sidewalks
-Bike lanes
-Signage

25. Media Campaign (~75,000)

26. …the work of the
Healthy People Wood County
Obesity Prevention Team
Who made all of this possible?

27. …the work of AmeriCorps
volunteers

28. …work of UWSP practicum students

29. And over 135
Partners!

30. • Beltie Beef
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters
• Blue Heron Brew Pub/West 14th
• Bows and Britches Childcare
• Boys & Girls Club of Wisconsin Rapids
• Bright Horizons SJH/MFC
• Building Blocks Learning Center
• Buzzy Bees Child Care Center
• Centers for Disease Control
• Central City Credit Union
• Central Home Improvement
• Central Wisconsin Resiliency Project
• Child Care Centers of Marshfield, all
sites
• Child Care Resource and Referral
• Christ Cares for Kids
• 10-10-10
• ABC Childcare Centers, LLC
• ABC Children’s Enrichment Center
• Active Portage County
• Adult Day Care of South Wood County
• Aging and Disability Resource Center
• Alliance Collections
• Allied Health of Wisconsin, Nekoosa
Office
• Altenburg’s Country Gardens, LLC
• American Heart Association
• Aspirus Doctors Clinic
• Aspirus Occupational Health
• Associated Employee Assistance
• Auburndale School District
• BeHIP

31. •Citizens for Clean Green Welcoming
Committee
•City of Marshfield
•City of Wisconsin Rapids
•Community Foundation of Greater South
Wood County
•Community members
•Country Tots Child Development Center
•Cranberry Clergy
•Cutler County Comfort
•Dairy State Cheese
•Dennis Kitowski Farm
•Dental Clinic of Marshfield
•Domtar Industries, Inc.
•ERCO Worldwide
•Family Center
•Family Health Center
•Figi’s
•First Presbyterian Church - Marshfield
•Forward Vending
•Girl Scouts of Woodland Council
•Good Shepherd Lutheran Church –
Marshfield
•Grand Rapids Lion’s Club
•Green Team
•Happy Days Day Care Center
•Healthy Lifestyles – Marshfield Area
Coalition
•Heart of Wisconsin
•HoChunk Nation
•Home/Community Ed Association
•Homestead Supper Club
•Jamaican Kitchens
•Jazzersize

32. •Lammar’s Smokehouse BBQ
•Lots of Tots Preschool, LLC
•Lowell Senior Center
•Lowland Bison Ranch
•Malek Family Stewardship Farm, LLC
•Marshfield Area Chamber of Commerce
•Marshfield Area United Way
•Marshfield Area YMCA
•Marshfield Area Community Foundation
•Marshfield Clinic
•Marshfield Fire Department
•Marshfield Master Gardeners
•Marshfield News Herald
•Marshfield Noon Rotary Club
•Marshfield Park and Recreation Department
•Marshfield Public Library
•Marshfield School District
•Mid State International Truck
•Mid-State Technical College
•Nekoosa School District
•Nelson-Jameson
•New Page Corporation
•North Central Workforce Development
Board
•NRG Media, WYTE & WLJY
•Ocean Spray Cranberries
•Opportunity Development Center
•Pioneer Bank
•Pittsville School District
•Port Edwards School District
•Precious Hearts Preschool

33. •Prust Sugarbush and Honey Farm
•Rapids Mall
•Red Mill Supper Club
•Renaissance Learning
•River Cities Community Access
•Riverview Hospital Association
•Rudolph’s Little Dears
•Safe Routes to School
•Saint Joseph’s Child Care
•Saint Joseph’s Hospital
•Security Health Plan
•Sesame Workshop
•South Wood County YMCA
•South Wood County YMCA Child
Development and Toddler Centers
•St. Alban’s Episcopal Church,
Marshfield
•St. Lawrence Early Childhood Center
•Staab Construction Corporation
•Sustainable Marshfield
•Tender Loving Children’s Center and
Preschool
•The Voice
•US Department of Health and Human
Services
•UW Marshfield/Wood County
•UW-Extension
•UW-Stevens Point
•Vespertine Gardens
•WAOW Newsline 9
•WDLB Radio
•WFHR Radio
•WI Dept of Transportation
•WIC
•Wisconsin Department of Health Services
•Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune
•Wisconsin Rapids Park and Recreation
Department
•Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools
•Wisconsin Rapids Rafters
•Wisconsin Restaurant Association,
Central Wisconsin River Valley Chapter
•Wood County Head Start
•Youth Net

34. Thank you for your
time!

35. Contact Information
Kristie Rauter
CPPW Project Director
Wood County Health
Department
krauter@co.wood.wi.us
(715) 421-8915