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SHAPE UP SOMERVILLE DIRECTOR ACCEPTS POSITION AT STATE DPH

Jaime Corliss to Head State’s Mass in Motion Program; City will Undertake Search for New Director

SOMERVILLE - Mayor Joseph A.

Curtatone announced this week that, in a meeting last week, the Director of the

City's Shape Up Somerville (SUS) program, Jaime Corliss, tendered her

resignation in order to accept a leadership position with Mass in Motion, a

program of the state's Department of Public Health. Corliss has served as the SUS Director since

May of 2009, and will assume her new role, Manager of Community Initiatives

within the Division of Prevention and Wellness next month.

"Jaime has been a tremendous asset to the City, and has helped to promote the

best practices and lessons of Shape Up Somerville nationwide," said Mayor

Curtatone. "We are sad to lose such a

dedicated and hard working Director, but look forward to continuing our work with

the Department of Public Health and Mass in Motion through Jaime in her new

role. I wish her the very best, and I

know she will do well in this newest endeavor."

"Jaime came to the City of

Somerville with a reputation of being smart, dedicated, and hard working, and

has more than lived up to those accolades," said Somerville Health Director

Paulette Renault-Caragianes, who supervises Shape Up Somerville under the

Health Department. "While Jaime's

departure is certainly a loss for the City, I am very grateful that she has

given us so much during her time with the Health Department. It is a real

gift that she will remain a colleague in her new role heading up the efforts of

the Commonwealth in promotion of active living and healthy eating."

In her time with SUS, Jaime has

spearheaded innovative community strategies and partnerships to promote healthy

eating and active living, provided national support to community programs and

guidance based on the successes of SUS across the country, enhanced and expanded

the City's healthy restaurant program, and wrote two successful award

applications, which have brought additional recognition to the City's program.

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