Latino Kids Need Your Help. Here’s How to Start.

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Latino kids need your help.

They have the nation’s highest childhood obesity rate. They struggle to access healthy foods and drinks and physical activity. They are increasingly targeted by unhealthy food marketing.

You’re invited to join our free public webinar at 11 a.m. CST/ 12 p.m. EST on Tuesday, July 19, 2016, to get tools you can use to make a healthy change for Latino kids.

The webinar—a partnership of Salud America! and Community Commons—will explore available resources, data, maps, case studies, and other tools that make it easy for you to start a healthy change to reduce Latino childhood obesity in your community.

A healthy change can mean working with a local school to open playgrounds after school, pushing for policies that help new mothers to breastfeed their newborns, or even starting a local farmers’ market to increase neighborhood access to fresh fruit and veggies.

The webinar will feature experts from Community Commons, an online platform with free technology-enhanced tools to support change, and Dr. Amelie Ramirez, an internationally renowned Latino health expert from Salud America!, a Latino childhood obesity prevention network with an online platform on Community Commons, which inspires and empowers people to create healthy change.

Parents, teachers, school officials, community leaders, organizations, healthcare workers, and others interested are invited to join the webinar.

Register here for the webinar.

Salud America! is a Latino childhood obesity prevention network funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and based at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.