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How Food & Fitness Community Partnerships Successfully Engaged Youth, Arnell J. Hinkle, Catherine Sands, Neftali Duran, Lynette Houser, Laura Liechty, Julian Hartmann-Russell
How Food & Fitness Community Partnerships Successfully Engaged Youth, Arnell J. Hinkle, Catherine Sands, Neftali Duran, Lynette Houser, Laura Liechty, Julian Hartmann-Russell
Catherine Sands
Authentic youth engagement was a central component of the Food & Fitness (F&F) Initiative, a 9-year community-based intervention, whose goal was to ensure that all children have equitable access to healthy food and built environments that promote safe physical activity. The youth engagement component focused on strategies and structures that would support a model framework for youth involved in F&F community partnerships. These strategies empowered youth by providing the leadership and technical skills needed in collaborative efforts to sustain change in communities with inequities, where structural racism and inequities result in poor health outcomes for children. This article describes the …