County Leadership Teams

Connecting Food & Fitness to Your Community

The purpose of the County Leadership Team is to implement the Food and Fitness Initiative in its county, and to inform the direction of the Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative by making suggestions, gathering learning from their work, and identifying opportunities and needs within the county.  There are County Teams in Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard and Winneshiek counties and in the Postville community.

The following materials are for use at the next County Leadership Team meeting.  Visit the calendar for meeting locations and times.


Meeting Materials, April 2010:
Meeting Agenda for participants
Community Wellness Grant Summary
Slide Handouts
Direct link to slide presentation
Let's Move website

For Reference:
Work Group Report - Mar 2010


Click here to see the past County Meeting materials.

For more information about the county team meetings, contact:
    Allamakee:  Danielle at Waukon Wellness Center, (563) 568-0074
    Clayton:  McKenzie at Strawberry Point Economic Development, (563) 933-4417
    Chickasaw:  ISU Extension--Chickasaw County, (641) 394-2174
    Fayette:  Karla at Fayette County Economic Development, (563) 422-5073
    Howard: Sue at  ISU Extension--Howard County, (563) 547-3001
    Winneshiek: Rick at Decorah Park & Rec, (563) 382-4158

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Key responsibilities of the county teams:

• Serve as the voice and face of FFI in the county
• Engage other county residents in FFI by recruiting them to participate on the county team and in local events and activities
• Encourage and initiate local policy, organizational, and environmental changes and projects that create healthy food and fitness environments
• Support pilot projects and mini-grant work within the county
• Monitor progress of the FFI work in the county through participatory evaluation
• Assist in documenting impact of local work
• Make decisions regarding use of county mini-grant funds
• Participant in FFI initiative evaluation

• January – FFI Community Action Plan Overview – Youth Engagement
• February – Active Living Learning Community – Safe Routes to School
• March – Farm to School
• April – Community Health Learning Community – Messengers of FFI
• May – No meeting
• June – NE Iowa Food & Farm Coalition – Tours
• July – No meeting
• August/September – Youth and Schools Learning Community
• October – FFI Fall Conference – No county meeting