New Website: How to Grow a Healthy Change for Kids in Your Area and Beyond

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Want to address childhood obesity, but don’t know where to start or how to make a change?

Start at Salud America!

The new website is a first-of-its-kind clearinghouse of resources and stories to promote changes—healthier marketing and improved access to healthy food and physical activity, etc.—for kids in your neighborhood and across the nation.

Right now at the site, you can:

• Find resources to start a change;
• Watch and read about real-life “Salud Heroes” of change; and
• Become a “Salud Hero” by sharing your own stories.

Here are some examples of Salud Heroes who have made healthy community changes:

The site was created by Salud America!, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The site was initially part of the Community Commons platform.

“We believe this site is a critical tool to showcase the latest healthy changes for kids that are popping up across the country, and also to educate and motivate people to start creating changes of their own,” said Amelie G. Ramirez, DrPH, director of Salud America!. “What’s great is that you can find what changes are happening in your own backyard, or see what’s happening 1,000 miles away and how you might be able to make that happen in your area.”

Visit the new website here.