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Health & Health Equity Challenges:

I challenge you to improve the culture or design of your school to promote physical activity and healthy living in an environmentally friendly way.

Donna Lynne

We challenge you to develop a solution to reduce a health inequity facing your community, using your community’s assets and identifying where more support is needed.

Tigee Hill & Alexandra Quinn

I challenge you to improve the health of your community by enabling people of all ages to bring four habits into their lives: good nutrition, regular exercise, balanced emotional health, and community volunteerism.

Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel

I challenge you to identify an important public health problem facing your community and for you to change people’s knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors about that problem in order to make your community healthier.

Alex Ortega

I challenge you to improve the health of your community by enabling people of all ages to bring three habits into their lives: good nutrition, regular exercise, and balanced emotional health.

Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel

Health & Health Equity Solutions:

I challenge you to improve the culture or design of your school to promote physical activity and healthy living in an environmentally friendly way.

Donna Lynne

Almighty Eagles

The Almighty Eagles believe healthy living is a key element to being happy, with that being said we devised a plan that included creating enrichments involving physical activity, We put requests in for sports clubs, enrichments and P.E classes in general, and we also made students aware of how eating habits can affect their lives positively or negatively.

2Fit4U

2Fit4U educates young students about the benefits of healthy living by providing space for physical activity and healthier food options.

Nourish

North High School is finding ways to utilize community centers to provide healthy, local produce for families living in food deserts.

Team Well Aware

Team Well Aware has come together to address the lack of awareness of the importance of health and wellness, the lack of opportunities and programs in our community that address health and wellness, and the need to help young children learn about the importance of health and wellness at an early age.

Nutrition Ambition

Nutrition Ambition is an initiative implemented in order to provide and obtain knowledge and exciting, innovative resources to the people of our community to motivate a unified sense of purpose in nourishing the environment and ourselves.

We challenge you to develop a solution to reduce a health inequity facing your community, using your community’s assets and identifying where more support is needed.

Tigee Hill & Alexandra Quinn

Woodrow Wilson High School

Wildcat Outreach provides hygiene products to women facing homelessness as a way to respect each person's dignity and promote healthy communities.

South Oak Cliff High School

The Significant Optimistic Crew brings awareness and solutions to inequities in the Dallas community that affect the overall health of teens and children so they can make wise choices for a better lifestyle for ourselves and our community.

David W. Carter High School

Listen Up will provide information, help, and hope to teens who may suffer from mental illness and feel alone in their struggles, all while educating and broadening the understanding of educators and administrators.

Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel

PhilaHealthia

To help people build healthy habits in nutrition, exercise, emotional health, and community volunteerism, we developed an app that gamifies healthy habits and supports behavior change. The app tracks the progress in the PhilaHealthia Challenge, where students and teachers compete to earn points and win fabulous prizes.

4 Life Challenge

Get Fit Saturdays will increase access to fresh fruit for students in our school, establish an emotional support system for students, and create opportunities for students to use the skills they learn in our program to improve our community.

Alex Ortega

Valley Academy of Arts & Sciences

Lifecycle is leading the journey to a more health-conscious community by raising awareness and creating a movement to inspire others; we will only reach our destination when we all make the choice to live forward.

Ulysses S. Grant High School

Team Red Light is dedicated to educating adolescents in our community about marijuana usage and its effects, providing support in dealing with the mental, emotional, and physical aspects of substance abuse, and providing alternatives that will lead to a healthier lifestyle.

Teacher Prep Academy at César E Chávez Learning Academies

Soar for Health Organization is focused on empowering our local community by providing them with interactive educational experiences and engaging physical activities that enable them to make healthier lifestyle choices.

Reseda High School

Fresh Cutz is an interactive program with a mission to teach the importance of healthier eating choices through healthy partnerships.

Rancho Dominguez Preparatory School

LOBOS for C.H.A.N.G.E. will activate awareness by providing access to positive solutions, including physical, mental and social events, that foster healthier lifestyles within the community and combat the problems of obesity.

I challenge you to improve the health of your community by enabling people of all ages to bring three habits into their lives: good nutrition, regular exercise, and balanced emotional health.

Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel

B^3 (Buff Broccoli Brains)

B^3 creates tools to build healthy, happy lives. Our fun, student-created programs promote good nutrition, regular exercise, and emotional wellbeing as daily and lifelong habits in our school and community.

Paul Robeson Healthy Youth Initiative

We are teaching students about physical, emotional, and nutritional health to promote a healthy lifestyle. We want to replicate this program in other schools to increase healthy behaviors.

PhitPhilly

By associating the word "healthy" with the word "fun" through fitness and diet, we raise awareness of the benefits of healthy living one meal at a time.

Challenges and Solutions

Health & Health Equity Challenges:

Health & Health Equity Solutions:

Almighty Eagles

2Fit4U

Nourish

Team Well Aware

Nutrition Ambition

Woodrow Wilson High School

South Oak Cliff High School

David W. Carter High School

PhilaHealthia

4 Life Challenge

Valley Academy of Arts & Sciences

Ulysses S. Grant High School

Teacher Prep Academy at César E Chávez Learning Academies

Reseda High School

Rancho Dominguez Preparatory School

B^3 (Buff Broccoli Brains)

Paul Robeson Healthy Youth Initiative

PhitPhilly

Aspen Challenge

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