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Energize Your Vending! <br />Acknowledgements <br />Leadershyp and funding for this collaborative effort vvas <br />provided by <br />Community Choices, a non - profit organization in Clark County, <br />Washington, is a catalyst for healthy communities. As an advocacy <br />Communitjj organization, Community Choices plays a unique and critical role — to <br />Choices listen and use data, and engage and mobilize others to drive long -term, <br />Listen • Engage • Mobilize sustainable change that will improve the health of our community and <br />the quality of life for all residents. Learn more about Community Choices <br />and review the most recent Community Report Card at <br />www.clarkcommunitychoices.org or call (360)567 -1067. <br />22 <br />Steps to a Healthier Clark County — Fiscal Year 2008 marks Community <br />Choices' final year of administering a five -year Steps to a HealthierUS <br />grant. Funding comes from the Steps to a HealthierUS Cooperative <br />Agreement which is a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) <br />_ <br />Ste'psto -----:_—_ <br />program advancing the goal of helping Americans live longer, better and <br />Healthier ft <br />healthier lives. Steps supports best - practice, community -based <br />ty <br />interventions, and advocates for appropriate changes to public policy <br />Ais publication is supported by the Steps to a <br />and organizational practice in order to reduce the burden of diabetes, <br />HealthierUS Cooperative Agreement Program <br />ofd, eU.S.DepartmertoJHealth and Human <br />obesity and asthma, by addressing three related risk factors - poor <br />Services( HHS ). Its lview contents donotnecessarily <br />represent the okra! view of HHS. <br />nutrition, physical inactivity and tobacco use and exposure. For more <br />p Y Y h <br />information about Steps to a Healthier Clark County, please visit <br />www .stepstoahealthierclarkco.org or call (360) 567 -1067. <br />National Automated Merchandising Association (NAMA) is the national <br />trade association of the food and refreshment vending, coffee service <br />and foodservice management industries including on -site, commissary, <br />catering and mobile. Its membership is comprised of service companies, <br />® <br />equipment manufacturers and suppliers of products and services to <br />Balanced forLIFE. <br />operating service companies. The basic mission of the association, to <br />Nutrition • Exercise • Education <br />collectively advance and promote the automatic merchandising and <br />w .balancedfarlife -net <br />coffee service industries, still guides NAMA today as it did in 1936, the year <br />of the organization's founding. NAMA supports, with administrative, <br />logistical and financial assistance, a network of 30 +affiliated State <br />Councils encompassing 36 states, where the vending and coffee service <br />industries focus on local issues and concerns as well as gathering <br />frequently for networking opportunities. Fit Pick TM and Balanced For Life TM <br />are programs developed and administered by NAMA. For more <br />information, visit the NAMA website: www.vendina.org or <br />www.balancedforlife.net. <br />22 <br />