Click here to see The City Project’s policy report and maps on Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Riverside County in English. Síga este enlace para ver el reporte y mapas del City Project de Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el Condado de Riverside en Español. Click here to view other reports [...]

Click here to see The City Project’s policy report and maps on Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Riverside County in English. Síga este enlace para ver el reporte y mapas del City Project de Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el Condado de Riverside en Español. Click here to view The City [...]

See The City Project’s policy report and maps on Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Orange County in English. Síga este enlace para ver el reporte y mapas del City Project de Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el Condado de Orange en Español. Click here to [...]

See The City Project’s policy report and maps on Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Orange County in English. Síga este enlace para ver el reporte y mapas del City Project de Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el Condado de Orange en Español. Click here to [...]

November 10, 1;30-3:00 pm Joliet Room, 5th Floor, Marriott Detroit This session grapples with the continuing issues of school segregation, use of schools for community purposes, and the complexities of an emerging issue at the intersection child health and education equity: creating integrated high-quality schools and creating walkable community centered schools. While investments increating safe [...]

American Public Health Association 240643 Los Angeles Unified School District Physical Education Policy: Assessment, Implementation & Impact Monday, October 31, 2011 2:30 pm Mariah Lafleur, MPH , Samuels & Associates, Oakland, CA Sarah Samuels, DrPH , Samuels & Associates, Oakland, CA Robert Garcia, JD , The City Project, Los Angeles, CA Brian Cole, DrPH , [...]

3210.0 APHA Past President Session – Every Child Has a Right to Play: Public Health, the Urban Park Movement and Translating Social Science Research Into Systemic Social Change

…Assuring the conditions in which people can be healthy requires that public health professionals understand how civil rights strategies can support efforts to reverse these policies and practices.

Physical education is good policy and good law: physical education gets students physically active; helps reduce obesity; promotes the sound development of the child; prepares students with the skills, knowledge and confidence to be physically active throughout their lives; and can contribute to academic performance and positive behavior in and out of school. … Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the largest public school district in California and the second largest in the nation, was audited several times between 2004 and 2009, and each audit found that the district did not enforce physical education minute requirements.

Youth-Nex will hold an invitation-only conference on positive youth development on October 24 and 25, 2011. The U.Va. event, “Forward Thinking: Preparing Our Youth for the Coming World,” will focus on a multidimensional understanding of the essential elements needed to promote effective youth development including physical and mental health, engaged citizenship, and productive and supportive [...]

Click here to see The City Project’s policy report and maps on Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Los Ángeles County in English. Síga este enlace para ver el reporte y mapas del City Project de Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el Condado de Los Angeles [...]