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Rosalie Aguilar-Santos

Rosalie Aguilar Santos, MS, is Salud America!'s national project coordinator. She is passionate about nutrition, physical activity, and opportunities to engage communities in advocacy actions to promote Latino childhood health.


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Ending the sale of candy at Wake school fundraisers



New article about the controversial new policy being suggested to the school board from Wake County's School Healthy Advisory Council that will ban the sales of junk food during fundraisers and sporting events. ...

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Executive Summary of Baldwin Park’s Comprehensive Park and Recreation Master Plan



This plan was created in the fall of 2005 in order to guide the City of Baldwin Park through the process of developing more recreational opportunities for its citizens. Page 3 of the document specifies that formalized joint use agreements should be established between the City of Baldwin Park and the Baldwin Park Unified School District. The final page of this document displays a map of proposed sites for 5 school parks. In this map Olive Junior High, Charles Bursch Elementary School, Pleasant View Elementary School, Charles D Jones Junior High, and Tracy Elementary School are the 5 sites that have been identified as places for possible joint use agreements. /SALUDcontent/Baldwin Park- Park and Recreation Master ...

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Fairfax County Public Schools- Safe Routes to School Information



This is the Fairfax County Public School's Safe Routes to School (SRTS) webpage which provides information on upcoming SRTS workshops, resources, local contact information, and district wellness ...

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The Westside of San Antonio was the target area for the HKHC grant. The target area for the Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities project is encircled with blue. /SALUDcontent/Complete Streets ...

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When streets are designed to be pedestrian friendly, children can walk and bike to school. /SALUDcontent/Complete Streets ...

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Find Parks, Recreation Centers and MyFi Sites



In 2010, recreation centers across Dallas were in jeopardy of being closed. Fortunately, city leaders joined with Oncor, a corporation who decided to contribute $1 million dollars, to begin the Mayor's Youth Fitness Initiative (MyFi). MyFi programs are available at the locations demonstrated on this ...

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