Latinos in California’s Central Valley Seek Access to Healthier Foods and Opportunities for Physical Activity

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Through a Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities grant, members of the Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program (CCROPP), and Ceres Partnership for Healthy Children worked throughout the Central Valley of California, to create initiatives to improve access to healthy foods and safe places for physical activity. CCROPP also developed an innovative grassroots community leadership program, so that Latinos could feel better equipped for becoming active leaders in their community.

This video describes some of the challenges that residents living in the Central Valley face and demonstrates some of the work that CCROPP is doing to transform ordinary parents into leaders of their community.

Program coordinators at CCROPP talk about the leadership program and how trained community members created their own projects to bring healthy changes to the community.

Learn more about the healthy changes happening in the Central Valley by visiting the CCROPP homepage.