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Vote for Heroes! Latino kids face barriers to physical, emotional, and mental health. Salud Heroes are here to help! WATCH and VOTE for six new Salud America! #SaludHeroes of Community Health who are improving Latino families. For voting, you’ll enter a drawing for a FREE T-shirt and jump rope! Gaby Medina: Water Promotora. Gaby Medina pushes water over sugary drinks for Latino families in Colorado. Baby Café: Breastfeeding Help. Diana Montano and others use peer counselors to support breastfeeding moms in San Antonio. Hispanic Unity Florida: Aid for Immigrants. Felipe Pinzon’s group offer bilingual aid to relieve stress for Latino immigrants. Jay Sanford: Swim Safety. Jay helped create vouchers for kids younger than 5 to get water safety classes in Broward County, Fla. Vida Sana: Door-to-Door Health. Dierdre Sullivan helps Vida Sana use promotores to reduce barriers to care in Colorado. Surani Sisters: iConquer. Three sisters created a program to give kids healthy habits in Corpus Christi, Texas. Vote here by Feb. 15, 2017!

LAST CHANCE: Easy Way to Speak Up for Active Kids! Start with our “model” and submit your own public comment for the 2nd edition of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. Read More »

TWEETCHAT: How YOU Can Impact School Wellness! Use #SaludTues at 1p ET on 1/31/17 to tweet how to ensure your school has healthy policies. Follow us at @SaludToday! See This Chat »

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BILINGUAL GRAPHICS: 5 Ways Water Wins The Healthy Kids Hub has new bilingual infographics on the benefits of drinking water for young athletes. More Resources »

Be a #SaludHero! Email us your story, we can share it. Baby Café for Moms! Health workers Norma Sifuentes and Diana Montano, knew breastfeeding duration rates were low in largely Latino San Antonio, Texas, and many local moms faced social and environmental barriers. So they worked together, applied for funding, and created a Baby Café to make breastfeeding peer counselors accessible to all San Antonio mothers. Read / Watch » Water Promotora! Gaby Medina distrusted local tap water when she moved from Mexico to Denver’s Westwood neighborhood (79% Latino). But she learned from her dentist about the fresh mountain water’s health benefits, and started pushing water to family/friends. She then became a bilingual water promotora for Westwood Unidos to teach parents about the health of water!. Read / Watch » Aid for Immigrants! Felipe Pinzon and his colleagues at Hispanic Unity of Florida know that many immigrants arrive in Broward County, Fla. (27% Latino) with no possessions, little money, and legal questions or citizenship matters. That’s why they offer free aid to low-income families in their most troubling times, to relieve stress and, in turn, improve people’s health and quality of life. Read / Watch »

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