Active Living By Design has released Lessons for Leaders: Navigating the Process of Healthy Community Change, which provides leaders of local healthy community partnerships with practical, field-tested, strategic advice to help them be more proactive and effective. Over the past 12 years, Active Living By Design has gathered these lessons, principles and examples from a range of healthy community partnerships and their leaders. Themes include capacity building, communication, community engagement for equity, and advancing policy and systems change. Access the Lessons for Leaders resource ...
Active Living By Design has released Investing in Healthy Community Change: A Resource for Funders. This new resource offers a range of ideas that challenge business as usual, and explore lessons learned about investing in healthy community change to help funders of all sizes leverage their investments, achieve their goals and sustain their results. Active Living By Design produced this resource from their unique perspective on placed-based healthy community grantmaking and collaboration, having served for more than 12 years as a bridge between dozens of funders and more than 160 community coalitions. Read the full report ...
Active Living By Design has released Growing a Movement: Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Final Report. The report provides an overview of the Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities national initiative which supported 49 partnerships to increase children’s access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity through changes in policies, systems and environments. Growing a Movement includes common themes, key findings and brief vignettes, along with implications for the field. Four key findings of the report include: 1 – Partner Collaboration was Critical for Success
2 – Connections to the Larger Movement Enhanced Local Action
3 – Engaging the Community Drove Action and Equity
4 – Policy and Environmental Change was Critical to Building a Culture of ...
Alma Daneshi cried as she sat in her San Diego-area oncologist’s office, traumatized by past-and-present health battles that continued to endanger her life. She had been through a brain aneurism and open-brain surgery. Then breast cancer. Then breast cancer again, followed by cervical cancer. She had lost her job managing a TGI Fridays restaurant while recovering from the aneurism and taking time off for cancer treatment. She got evicted and worried how she would care for herself and her then 12-year-old daughter. Then she learned she contracted viral meningitis during treatment. Daneshi, sitting beside her oncologist, broke down and wept. But then she got some life-changing advice. “My oncologist let me cry for a bit before she said, ‘Instead of crying, put your anger and ...
Latino kids have limited access to out-of-class programs to boost physical activity, which contributes to their higher obesity rates, research shows. What can be done? Learn about and share new out-of-school fitness research, resources, and programs for Latino kids at the #GrowingHealthyChange Tweetchat, "Active Play & Latino Kids" at noon CST (1 p.m. EDT) Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, with co-hosts SaludToday, YMCA, and Active Living Research. Follow the Tweetchat on Twitter (via @SaludToday, @AL_Research, and @YMCA) to learn more about reducing barriers to active play, increasing access to physical activity before & after school, policies and programs that work to increase physical activity. And share your own resources, ideas and success stories of what works in bringing ...
Another mobile food truck is brining farm-fresh produce to the streets---this time in northeastern Florida. Farm to Family, a new mobile market that launched in summer 2014, is the latest outreach program of Pie in the Sky, a non-profit operating food programs for families in the small town of Hastings, FL. The market makes around 20 stops a week in St. Johns County and accepts food assistance benefits, like SNAP. Latinos make up around 15% of SNAP participants. Farm to Family’s website lists its scheduled stops as well as the weekly produce offerings. The truck also stocks reasonably-priced non-local items, such as bananas. Farm to Family also posts recipes on its website for things like carrot cake oatmeal, easy pickles and roasted veggie tacos. When residents come ...
Forty middle school aged girls from Arkansas's four congressional districts were given the opportunity to be a part of Camp iRock, a week-long, free summer camp that provides girls with physical activity, nutrition education, and lessons on empowerment and self-esteem. This year marked the forth year that camp iRock was in session. While at camp, girls enjoy fun outdoor activities like hiking, canoeing, fishing and swimming. According to the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, girls in Arkansas from minority and underserved communities are at a increased risk for becoming obese. The highest obesity risk was among African American (45%) and Latina females (44%) in the state of Arkansas. That's why the Arkansas Minority Health Commission, the Arkansas Children's Hospital, and ...
Programs that make it easier for low-income families to buy fresh, healthy foods at farmers' markets are catching on across the country, and many Latino families are benefiting. In Washington, D.C., a new program introduced by the District’s Department of Health in partnership with farmers' markets across the city provides low-income city residents with two $5 checks a week at certified District farmers markets and some community distribution sites to spend on fruit and vegetables this summer. The D.C. Council allotted $135,000 for the purchase of food through the program, Produce Plus. The goal is to increase access to fresh produce for those who may struggle to afford it. Recipients of most food assistance programs, including SNAP and WIC, are eligible for Produce ...
Did you know you can help fight climate change by changing what you eat every day? Watch "Be Climate Smart with Cool Foods" in Spanish or English to learn how you can support a food system that is healthy for you and the climate. The video, from the Center for Food Safety, showcases five simple tips for eating climate-smart:
1. Grow and Eat Organic
2. Eat Less Meat, Choose 100% Grass-Fed Meat and Dairy
3. Eat Fresh, Unprocessed Foods
4. Buy Local and in-Season
5. Compost and Reduce Food Waste
For more, check out the Cool Foods ...
