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Improvement is never easy, but it is always rewarding. The cross-sectoral teams participating in the Collaborate for Healthy Weight learning collaborative come from all corners of the United States, and each of their journeys is unique.
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11/14/12
Located in Western Massachusetts, the small city of Holyoke is one of the poorest in the state. But over the last decade, Holyoke has also become a model for community-based obesity prevention programming.
12/14/11
The San Diego Healthy Weight Collaborative is centering its work on a very small physical area of Chula Vista, California. A city just south of San Diego and a few miles from the Mexican border, Chula Vista has an obesity rate of 40 percent.
11/21/11
Sometimes getting started can be the hardest part of a project, but that's not a problem the teams participating in the first phase of the Healthy Weight learning collaborative can relate to.
11/16/11
The first time parents in Sarasota County received letters telling them that their children were overweight, their anger lit up the phones.