WEBINAR: Healthy Communities for a Healthy Future: Supporting Let’s Move! Cities, Towns and Counties

This webinar was held August 15, 2012 to introduce local elected officials or their staff to a new project launched by the National League of Cities (NLC) to help local elected officials address the policy and environmental factors that impact childhood obesity. As part of this project, NLC is leading efforts to enhance the work of Let’s Move! Cities, Towns and Counties (LMCTC), a key component of First Lady Michelle Obama’s comprehensive Let’s Move! initiative, which is dedicated to reversing the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation.

Speakers included:

• Sam Kass, White House Assistant Chef and the Food Initiative Coordinator
• Mayor Karl Dean, Nashville and Davidson County, TN
• Commissioner Larry Johnson, DeKalb County, GA