Dennis Edell of EPODE Canada and Dr. Shazhan Amed of SCOPE will be co-presenting a pre-conference workshop at this year’s Canadian Obesity Summit in Banff on April 25, 2017. The workshop, titled Designing a Successful Community-Based Approach for Preventing Childhood Obesity, is designed for anyone interested in learning what a community-based program can do and the necessary steps to start and sustain a program designed to reduce the prevalence of obese and overweight children.