Communities across the state are working tirelessly to create safe places for play and activity. In challenging economic times, solutions that maximize the use of existing resources and bring together residents, schools, and health advocates, are essential to improving healthy environments. Read these recently released community profiles to see how rural, urban, and suburban communities across California are utilizing joint use agerements to keep their communities healthy.

View the newest resources for creating and promoting healthy food and activity environments - from access to fresh produce to decreasing the breastfeeding gap to learning more about the Farm Bill.

From the PBS series Designing Healthy Communities to green justice to the new research that defends the importance - and legality - of regulations that limit food advertisements to children, we've rounded up the latest resources for advocates to read, watch, and share.

Join Berkeley Media Studies Group and Strategic Alliance on February 22 for their second collaborative Rapid Response webinar on maximizing media advocacy to impact the public debate and affect health policy.