Brownsville Named as Finalist in ‘Road Maps to Health’ Contest

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Folks in the largely Latino South Texas city of Brownsville are working hard to make health a priority by bringing environmental changes to the community. In October 2013, they were named as a finalist in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Roadmap to Health Contest–a national competition in which six communities working to fight obesity will be selected as winners and awarded a $25,000 grant toward improving the city’s health culture

Learn more about  some of the healthy changes like the the Brownsville Farmers’ market, CicloBia, and the old rail tracks that were turned into a fitness trail, in this news article.

Way to go Brownsville!