Latina Moms | Daughters
Researchers have found that investing in recess and organized play can prevent bullying, improve students’ behavior at recess and readiness for class, and provide more time for teaching and learning. Playworks, a national nonprofit that provides coaches who implement healthy recess and other playtime to schools in 23 cities nationwide was the focus of this [...]
Eddie Bocanegra is part of a unique group known as “violence interrupters” in CeaseFire, a Chicago-based organization that applies the principles of public health to the brutality of the streets. Founded in 2000 CeaseFire, a grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, combines “science and street outreach to track where violence is heating up and [...]
Adult obesity rates for Latinos were above 35% in four states and at least 30% in 23 states, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2011, a report from Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). By comparison, rates of adult obesity for Whites topped 30% [...]
