Predominantly Latino schools often lack financial support and resources to create a more active environment. Fortunately with the right tools and motivation you can do something about it! You can find grants, tools, and training opportunities to improve physical activity both before and after school, at the Let's Move, Active Schools resource page. The site provides tools and resources to provide students with: high quality PE;
brief bouts of physical activity throughout the day; and
after school programs to keep healthy. Resources to encourage staff, families, and the community members to support active living initiatives are also available. Click here to visit the Let's Move, Active Schools resource ...
According to this report from the Rudd Center, food companies are some of the most popular brands featured on Facebook. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter conduct polls and foster support for their products, as teens participate in the interactive components of food companies' social media promotions. The Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University completed this study to analyze how food marketers promote their products or brands through the different forms of social ...
Curious about trends in TV food marketing towards children? The Rudd Food Policy Center's 2010 report provides insight into the situation kids face with respect targeted advertising. Although children's exposure to TV food ads declined between 2004-2008, findings from the updated report indicate that exposure to food and beverage advertisements increased substantially among children in 2010. Read more about this ...
Safe Kids, an organization supported by Johnson & Johnson, hosted an event in Amarillo to teach kids about safety. At the event BikeTexas provided students with hands on training on wearing helmets, bike safety and maintenance. Over 500 students were in attendance at the event. ...
The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program in Fairfax County has served as a model to other SRTS schools across the nation. This initiative seeks to encourage kids and families to walk and bike to school. Stay tuned to their Facebook page to learn what parents in this community are doing to promote more out of school physical activity time for their children. Find more SRTS Resources from the Fairfax Advocates for Better Biking here. ...
Stay connected with Salud al Pasito!, a student led initiative of the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio that promotes walking events, and educates to community on chronic disease ...
The story of the Green is Go project as told by Saludable Omaha, on their website that contains many other stories and resources about what their youth are doing to encourage healthy ...
This toolkit, developed by faculty from UCLA Berkeley, provides examples of what parklets can look like. Case studies from seven cities and projects in the development phase are also discussed. Challenges, successes, implementation, and maintenance of parklets are ...
