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LiveWell Voices: Responding to Executive Orders on Refugees & Immigration

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Olga González, Director of Equity & Inclusion, Shares Her Powerful Perspective on Recent Political Events As part of our ongoing commitment to integrating a health equity focus into all aspects of our work and organization, we’re pleased to announce that Olga González has accepted the newly created position of Director of Equity and Inclusion at …

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January Policy Update: The 2017 Legislative Session Gets Moving

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January Policy Update: The 2017 Legislative Session Gets Moving Critical Items TAKE ACTION: Urge Legislators to Prioritize Walking and Biking Infrastructure in Transportation Funding Send a Message to Your Legislators Today! An August 2016 study concluded that there is a need for an investment of $1 billion a year over the next 25 years to …

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HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign | 2016 HEAL Summit Recap

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Cities & Towns Have Big Impact on Residents’ Health This year’s HEAL Summit brought together municipal leaders, LiveWell communities, and public health professionals from around Colorado and the country to discuss strategies for increasing access to healthy eating and active living (HEAL). LiveWell Colorado’s new CEO Gabriel Guillaume kicked off the summit by urging the …

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Opportunities and Challenges: LiveWell’s Policy Priorities for 2017

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The 2016 election has come to a close, which – for policy organizations like LiveWell – means looking ahead to the 2017 legislative session here in Colorado as well as in Washington D.C. You can read LiveWell’s takeaways on the election successes in Colorado for healthy eating and active living here. In 2017, we will …

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Making the ‘Healthy Choice the Easy Choice’ Isn’t Always Easy

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Making the ‘Healthy Choice the Easy Choice’ Isn’t Always Easy  Tackling access & inequity in a complex food environment By Wendy Peters Moschetti, Director of Food Systems, LiveWell Colorado We believe access to nutritious food is a basic human right here at LiveWell Colorado, which is why we aim to help create fair, equitable, health-promoting …

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Coloradans Coming Together to Say No More 24

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Coloradans Coming Together to Say “No More 24” By Sarah Kurz, Vice President of Policy & Communications, LiveWell Colorado  Colorado has the lowest adult obesity rate in the nation[1] according to a recent report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. But while Colorado as a whole is fairly healthy, the story is starkly different for Colorado kids. …

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Standing Up for a Healthy School Environment: Soda in Schools

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Standing Up for a Healthy School Environment By Leslie Levine, MPH, LiveWell Colorado Technical Assistance and Research Manager Today’s obesity crisis is a complex issue that cannot be solved overnight and requires a multi-pronged approach. One of those approaches is to look at our schools as health-promoting environments. For the past seven years, Colorado has …

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Introducing LiveWell’s No More 24 Campaign

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“No More 24” LiveWell Colorado has a long history of engaging and motivating Coloradans to make healthy choices. Now we are embarking on an even more critical and challenging effort: to inspire and advance policy and environmental changes. In short, we are focused on breaking down the barriers that keep Coloradans from being able to …

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