Rural Obesity Prevention Toolkit

Welcome to the Rural Obesity Prevention Toolkit. This toolkit is designed to help your program to identify factors in your community that promote obesity, convene partners to help address those problems, and apply proven obesity prevention strategies.

The toolkit is made up of several modules. Each concentrates on different aspects of obesity prevention programs. Modules also include resources for you to use in developing a program for your area. There are more resources on general community health strategies available in the Rural Community Health Toolkit.

• Module 1: Understanding Obesity
  Learn about rural obesity in the United States, so you can develop practical solutions to address it.
• Module 2: Creating an Obesity Prevention Program: Where to Begin
  First steps in creating a rural obesity prevention program.
• Module 3: Targeting Audiences
  Choosing the audience for your rural obesity prevention program.
• Module 4: Developing Interventions
  Using appropriate evidence-based interventions to meet your community's rural obesity prevention needs.
• Module 5: Addressing Obesity
  Rural obesity prevention strategies for healthcare providers, schools and communities.
• Module 6: Evaluating Efforts
  Evaluating rural obesity programs to help communities assess program effectiveness and build the evidence base for what works in rural communities.
• Module 7: Program Clearinghouse
  Examples of rural obesity programs that have been implemented in clinical, school, and community settings.