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Brittney Millard: Helping Patients and Persevering Through Breast Cancer
Cancer can be many things. Some describe cancer as a journey, a struggle, or a fight. For Brittney Millard, a breast cancer diagnosis was a life-changing event that gave her the passion to help other cancer survivors. “It’s really what’s in your heart. You can [help] people you know in your daily life, just spreading ...
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Hospital Teams with Schools to Boost Wellness for Florida Students
RJ Manchester and Erica Asti, staffers at the Florida Hospital for Children, along with Dr. Angela Fals and her team, sp…
Green & Active Spaces
PE Teachers Bring 60 Minutes of Daily Activity to Students Before or After School
Many students don’t meet daily recommendations of physical activity. They often lack access to quality activity opportun…
Education, Green & Active Spaces, Healthy Families & Schools
Kids Get Healthy Eating Lessons at Farmers Markets in Oregon
A farmer’s market is a lot of fun—for parents only, usually. Kids often just tag along, glumly, as their parents busily…
Healthy Food
Fields for All: Soccer & Futsal Courts Come to Recreation Deserts in Multnomah County, Oregon
Many kids live in “recreation deserts,” which lack access to safe, affordable physical activity opportunities. Therefore…
Green & Active Spaces
Creating a ‘Magic Bean’ Curriculum for Healthy Nutrition
What so great about beans? Grad student Kelly Atterberry and mentor Carol Miles have the answer in their new bean-based…
Healthy Food
Innovative Health Education for Kids, by Kids in Schools
In a Florida school district that didn’t provide health classes in high schools, a health educator, Risa Berrin, and her…
Education
Dr. ‘Dunk the Junk’ Uses Counter Marketing to Teach Kids Better Nutrition
Can a rap song or graffiti art help kids eat healthier? Dr. Kevin Strong wanted to give it a shot and compete with the u…
Healthy Food, Water
San Antonio Unpacks the Truth Of Sugary Beverages
To inform and educate the San Antonio community on just how much sugar is in the beverages people consume daily, health…
Healthy Food, Water
Student Leaders Work to get Healthier Lunch Options at School in San Antonio
When kids choose to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and less soda and chips, they set a good example for friends an…
Healthy Food
Youth Poets Help Communities to Step Up vs. Big Soda
Youth and local leaders joined forces to launch Open Truth, a counter-advertising campaign that exposes big soda compani…
Water