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LiveWell Colorado’s HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign Reaches 50 Municipalities

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Advancing Healthy Eating & Active Living (HEAL) Policies throughout the State With tensions rising around health care access in the United States, it’s easy to get discouraged. Yet here in Colorado, there’s a growing movement for healthy change that is helping advance healthy eating and active living (HEAL) policies in communities across the state. Since 2013, […]

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May Policy Digest: Transportation Funding Measure Crumbles, Just Like our Bridges, Roads & Sidewalks

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LiveWell Colorado May Policy Digest FOOD POLICY WEBINAR OPPORTUNITY Working Together on State & Federal Food Policy Thursday, May 11, 2017 12:00pm – 1:30pm Do you think you have little ability to impact federal policy? Or even state policy? Think again. In fact, you have greater capacity to impact federal and state policy than you

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LiveWell April Policy Digest

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State Policy Update Transportation As we mentioned in our last policy update, one of the highest priority issues for the legislature this session is transportation funding. House Bill 17-1242, is sponsored by Speaker Duran and House Transportation Committee Chair Representative Mitsch Bush and President Grantham and Senate Transportation Committee Chair Senator Baumgardner. This bipartisan legislation

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Lessons from Lake County: Mobilizing Local Communities for Statewide Change

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Lessons from Lake County: Mobilizing Local Communities for Statewide Change Lake County Build a Generation (LCBAG) is a coalition of residents from Leadville and the surrounding communities that works at the intersection of community organizing, prevention, and community-level change to build a healthier community for youth and families. Much of the organization’s energy goes into

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Pueblo Attains LiveWell Colorado’s HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign Elite Status

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LiveWell Colorado Awards Pueblo the Elite Status for Commitment to Healthy Living LiveWell Colorado is proud to award the Elite Status City recognition to the City of Pueblo. The city achieves this milestone recognition from LiveWell’s HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign for adopting five healthy eating and active living policies that help make it a

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Five Questions with LiveWell Colorado Director of Policy Terri Livermore

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Five Questions with LiveWell Colorado Director of Policy Terri Livermore In order to advance our mission of increasing access to healthy food and physical activity, LiveWell plays an active role in our state’s political process. This is especially true in the winter and early spring when Colorado’s legislature is in full swing. Terri Livermore, LiveWell’s

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February Policy Digest

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February Policy Digest: The Legislative Session Picks Up Steam State Policy Update Colorado Food Systems Advisory Council Bill Passes First Hurdle in House, Awaits Budget Hearing  COFSAC Bill Through First Legislative Challenge: Our Colorado Food Systems Advisory Council (COFSAC) bill was introduced last week and has been given an official number as HB17-1192. The bill, intended to

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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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Westwood Residents Make Big Push to Improve Recreation Opportunities

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Westwood Residents Make Big Push to Improve Recreation Opportunities On December 8th of last year, the city of Denver held the last of a series of public meetings to help determine the city’s priorities for its upcoming bond proposal. At roughly 5 degrees out, it was an exceptionally cold evening. The Denverites who braved the

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