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You have the power to make health happen in your community. Check out the many different ways you can make a difference.

September 25, 2012

Make Health Happen Here

  • Raise awareness about where health happens. Like Health Happens Here on Facebook or share the Health Happens Here animated video.
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  • ¡Sí se puede! Get engaged in your community: Become a volunteer or an organizer, donate to a cause or participate in local organizations.
    Find a partner
  • Let your voice be heard. Vote! And encourage friends and family to vote, too.
    Register to vote

In Neighborhoods

  • Invest in the California FreshWorks Fund (for as little as $20). Companies, community organizations, and individuals can help bring grocery stores to neighborhoods.
    Invest now
  • Ask your local councilmember and city or county department of transportation for lighting in your neighborhood parks.
    Find my local rep
  • Ride your bike to work or school.
    Learn more

With Prevention

  • Get a check-up. Under the new health care law your annual wellness visit to your doctor is free with your health care plan.
    Learn more
  • Small business owners can take advantage of the small business health care tax credit to help provide health coverage to your employees.
    Take advantage
  • Encourage your policymakers to remove subsidies for junk drinks, like sugary-soda, in the CalFresh (food stamp) program.
    Learn more

In Schools

  • Write a restaurant review about the nutritional quality of your school lunch or your child’s school lunch and post it on Yelp, Facebook or Patch.com.
    Give it a shot
  • Attend a Wellness Council meeting at your local school, and if your school doesn’t have a Wellness Council—ask why not.
    Learn how
  • Advocate your district’s school board for common-sense school discipline instead of suspending and expelling kids.
    Why?
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