If you're looking to get people in your community excited about being active, an open streets event or Ciclovia is a great way to get started. According to People for Bikes---a group that's uniting individuals from all across America through the activity of biking---Open Streets events are already taking the country by storm. Over 100 cities across the US have already experienced an open streets event. For more information read Open Streets Events Are Spreading Like Crazy. To get started with organizing an Open Streets Event visit our Ciclovia resources ...
If you're looking to get people moving in your community an open streets event or Ciclovia is a great way to get started. People for Bikes---a group that's uniting individuals from all across America through the activity of biking says Open Streets are already taking the country by storm. If you want to organize a Ciclovia in your city, download The Open Streets Guide and visit the Open Streets Project website. For information on how to evaluate the success of an Open Streets event, checkout the Open Streets Initiative: Measuring Success Toolkit available on the Active Living Research website. Access the Open Streets Initiatives: Measuring Success guide ...
Have you heard of NBC News’ Parent Toolkit? The Parent Toolkit, available in English and Spanish, is a website and mobile app that helps parents navigate their children’s academic development and personal growth. The resource includes: A “growth chart” with grade-by-grade academic benchmarks for Pre-K through 12th grade in math and English language arts;
Tips and resources for parents to support their children’s learning for Pre-K through 12th grade; and
A guide to parent-teacher conferences and school counselor meetings. The goals of this toolkit, which is sponsored by Pearson, are to give parents a clear understanding of what is expected of their children at each step in their academic journey, and to provide a comprehensive set of tips and tools to help ...
Editor's Note: This is the story of a graduate of the 2013 Èxito! Latino Cancer Research Leadership Training program. Apply by March 7, 2014, for the 2014 Èxito! program. Margarita Chavez
Albuquerque, N.M. With a mother and father who are both martial artists who actually first met at a tournament, it isn’t surprising that Margarita Chavez is an accomplished martial artist herself and has trained more than 400 adults and children at her family’s martial arts studio in Albuquerque, N.M. But earning a 6th-degree black belt in karate and becoming a skilled teacher takes years of intense training and dedication—something that Chavez is now applying to the arena of public health. She has spent time as a patient navigator and earned a bachelor’s degree in health education and a ...
Calling all artists, community organizations, and volunteers! If you're an artist and you want to contribute to improving the conditions of New York city's streets, visit the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) Art page. NYC DOT Art has several programs including: Community Commissions
Barrier Beautification
Site to Site
Arterventions
Asphalt Art Activation
Art Display Cases
Musical Interludes For 2014, the DOT Art has announced that they will be accepting grant applications through March 7, 2014. For more information about this opportunity visit the NYC DOT Art page and follow @NYC_DOT on ...
Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs may help prevent pedestrian injuries according to a 2013 study published in Pediatrics which examined motor vehicle crash data from 2001-2010. The study looked at geocoded motor vehicle crash data for 168,806 pedestrians in New York City and found that pedestrian injury rates during school-travel hours for schools with Safe Routes to School interventions were almost half (4.4 per 10,000) that of schools without SRTS programs (8.0 per 10,000). Learn more about this study from the University of Wisconsin's State Smart Transportation Initiative ...
Many residents in McLennan County, Texas struggle with diet-related diseases, like diabetes. In this county, where Latinos make up a quarter of the population, community partners are stepping up to identify solutions to these diet-related issues. Students from Baylor University in Waco, TX are canvassing the county during their spring 2014 semester, surveying 111 food stores in seven ZIP codes to assess the cost, availability, and quality of produce. A similar assessment was done in 2012 to assess if small convenience store owners had the capacity to offer fresh fruits and vegetables in their stores. That assessment found that concerns about spoilage and revenue loss kept many store owners from stocking fruits and vegetables. The results of the current study will be a part ...
Many Latino communities across the country lack access to fresh, healthy produce, which can contribute to unhealthy eating in kids. As part of the solution, city and community leaders are promoting healthy neighborhoods by encouraging small food shops to provide nutritious, affordable options for residents living in food deserts as a means to address the lack of access to healthy and affordable foods and contribute to improved nutrition. Many city-led or city-supported programs nationwide focus on enabling corner stores and smaller markets located in food deserts to provide healthy foods. The National League of Cities provides a guide that highlights the Healthy Corner Store Initiatives of four cities: Tupelo, Mississippi; St. Louis, Missouri; Philadelphia, ...
Editor's Note: This is the story of a graduate of the 2013 Èxito! Latino Cancer Research Leadership Training program. Apply by March 7, 2014, for the 2014 Èxito! program. Alelí Ayala-Marín
San Juan, Puerto Rico Alelí M. Ayala-Marín, a licensed dietitian/nutritionist, is proud of her Puerto Rican roots. Ayala-Marín said her culture and heritage have made her attentive to the studying cancer health disparities in her home country, where she has earned an undergraduate degree in nutrition and dietetics and a master’s in public health with a concentration in epidemiology from the University of Puerto Rico (Medical Science Campus). She is currently coordinating a pilot study, “Cultivando La Salud,” an evidence-based educational intervention designed to increase screening ...
