Success Stories
Get inspired by our Salud Hero stories and videos, which show real champions who drive big healthy changes for our families, schools, and communities!
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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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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
El Paso Students ‘Get Hip’ with Health and Wellness
In El Paso, Texas, kids are priority No. 1 thanks to a community-school partnership that prioritizes physical activity a…
Education, Green & Active Spaces
New Trails Encourage El Paso Residents to Get Up, Get Walking
How do you get an entire city of people to get up and moving? Build them new trails and places to walk! That’s what happ…
Green & Active Spaces
Finding Wellness Activities Nearby? There’s an App for That!
Improved technology, like smart phones and tablets, is often blamed for increasing unhealthy, sedentary lifestyles in ch…
Green & Active Spaces, Transportation & Mobility
Michaelie Love: Grab-and-Go Breakfast Cart Makes School Breakfast Cool (and Healthy)
San Antonio student Michaelie Love knows that, for many high school students, the hour before school begins is spent soc…
Education, Healthy Food