After United Way's Young Leaders Society, the Robla School District and the Health Education Council helped raise over $25,000 dollars to provide hydration stations at each school in the Robla School District (54% Latino), the district went a step further for health, literally. How? In the fall of 2015, after the Health Education Council met with students in their classrooms educating them on sugary beverages, the council also met with a small parent group at Taylor Street Elementary School to teach them about how to "Rethink Your Drink", educating parents on how much sugar is in the average soda, juices, and teas. Parents learned so much from the workshop that they wanted to know what else they could learn about. This conversation led to weekly nutrition workshops provided by ...
In addition to reducing your risk for heart disease, diabetes, 13 types of cancer, and numerous other lifelong health complications, physical activity, like walking, also boosts your mood, and improves academic performance, creativity, and your memory. Physical activity plays a critical role in reducing health disparities among Latinos because they face disproportionately more barriers to access safe places to walk and play. Forbes shares six reasons why you should make walking part of your day: Walking boosts your mood, even when you're not expecting it.
Walking enhances creativity, especially when you're seeking a solution.
Walking sparks connections between brain cells.
Walking improves working memory.
Walking yields the right rhythm for thinking.
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America Walks and the Every Body Walk! Collaborative are offering scholarships for the 2017 National Walking Summit, "Vital and Vibrant Communities: The Power of Walkability," to be held in St. Paul, MN from September 13-15, 2017. They are waiving the $375 fee for 100 attendees. Walkability increases access to basic needs and services and creates vital and vibrant communities, which encourages involvement and supports a high quality of life for everyone and overcome existing disparities. Latino neighborhoods often lack safe places to walk and access to basic needs and services, thus face higher rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. This Summit will expand what is meant by the term healthy to include not only physical health, but also the social, economic, and civic ...
Morning physical activity boosts health and academic success! A walking school bus program increases pedestrian safety, reduces neighborhood crime, increases school attendance, and reduces hydrocarbon emissions from traffic. Sadly, Latinos often lack access to safe routes to schools, parks, or other destinations, thus are disproportionately burdened by health disparities and pedestrian fatalities. You can make a difference by starting a walking school bus. The Safe Routes to School National Partnership and California Department of Health created this step-by-step guide outlining how to plan and implement a walking school bus for your school. The toolkit includes proven tools, tips and resources for a fast and easy start. Here is your toolkit - Step-by-Step: How to ...
How supportive is your state of walking, bicycling, and physical activity? The Safe Routes to School National Partnership working with the YMCA of the USA, developed Making Strides: State Report Cards to provide a snapshot of how supportive each state is of walking, bicycling, and physical activity for children and adults as of 2016. Physical activity, like walking and biking, are critical to fight childhood obesity and help kids grow up healthy and avoid lifelong, burdensome chronic diseases. The report cards primarily look at state policy focusing on four key areas: Complete Streets and Active Transportation, Safe Routes to School and Active Transportation Funding, Active Neighborhoods and Schools, and State Physical Activity Planning and Support.
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Latinos and Latino communities could benefit from the co-benefits walking and walkability can provide to an individual and community. Walking and walkability are cornerstones of vital and vibrant communities, communities which make safety a priority, provide access to basic needs and services, value health equity and historical places, cultivate sustainable economic growth, and promote civic engagement. The 2017 National Walking Summit will define, describe, and illustrate the influence and power of walkability in creating vital and vibrant places in order to bridge community divides and overcome existing disparities. Every neighborhood can be vital and vibrant. There is an important distinction between physical activity for health, like walking or swimming, and exercise ...
The Georgia Department of Transportation and Pedestrians Educating Drivers on Safety (PEDS) are developing an action plan aimed at increasing safety for people who walk. First, they are gathering input from Georgia residents about the challenges they face while walking in their community. It is essential for decision makers at the city and state level to seek community input to ensure that new plans, programs, and policies recognize and address barriers that are important to often-overlooked disadvantaged populations. The survey only takes five minutes and is available in English and Spanish. It will be used to prioritize solutions that you feel are most important to your community. Take the survey and spread the word. Learn more about why pedestrian safety is so ...
Because walking has numerous health benefits, it shouldn't be so complicated to figure out where kids and families can walk safely and be physically active in nature. The following infographics (English and Spanish) from the National Recreation and Parks Association, EverybodyWalk, National Environmental Education Foundation, Active Living Research,and the Surgeon General demonstrate how powerful nature walks are to transform your health and why everyone deserves safe access to parks and places to walk. National Recreation and Parks Association - Safe Routes to Parks
National Recreation and Parks Association - The Power of Parks
EverybodyWalk - Anatomy of Walking
EverybodyWalk - Health Benefits of Walking Health Benefits of Walking in Spanish National ...
Data from the National Center for Safe Routes to School show that children who walk or bike to school have a lower risk for diseases that affect Latinos disproportionately such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity. To raise awareness of the health and academic benefits of walking/biking to school Safe Routes organizes the National Walk/Bike to School Day. Take a look at the events happening in your community go here. Also, watch how this #SaludHero pushed for policies to make it easier and safer for children to “bike train” or walk to school in Fairfax, ...
