Healthy Augusta Hits the Ground Running

By Amanda McDougald


Healthy Augusta, Inc. was founded as an organization that will inspire and create a social movement through the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) to improve the overall health of the CSRA by promoting and encouraging healthy habits through awareness, education, and support.  The vision of the founder is to integrate multiple disciplines to focus on applying knowledge gained through research or otherwise for the good of our community.  The idea is that action and awareness regarding healthy habits at a grassroots level should create changes in the way that people understand and integrate these ideas and habits into their daily lives.  In short, people have to intrinsically desire to change their habits, and we would like to be agents of that motivation.


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Georgia PTA Advocates to Get Junk Food Out of Schools

By Kim Arasin, Georgia PTA Health & Wellness Chair

Georgia PTA is happy to be a part of Georgians for a Healthy Future. As an association founded on Advocacy, Georgia PTA is heavily involved in making a difference in the health and well-being of our children and families. In fact, there are two bills up before Congress in Washington right now that PTA is lobbying heavily to pass. They are H.R. 1324 and S. 934 – the Child Nutrition and Protection Act – aka the Competitive Foods Bill. This past June, my colleague, Natalie Rogers and I were able to participate in an Advocacy Day in DC to lobby Congress and the White House. I met with members of our Georgia Delegation to ask for their co-sponsorship and Natalie met with Michelle Obama’s staff. The bills (very similar to each other, one is house version and the other is senate version) would grant authority to the Secretary of Agriculture to update the standards on the Competitive Foods sold on school campuses.


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Nearly two million Georgians are uninsured.Source: CPS data
Georgia’s infant mortality rate is among the worst in the nation.Source: KidsCount
Georgia ranks 38th in health system performance.Source: Commonwealth Fund State Scorecard
2012 is a critical year for health care advocacy--your voice matters!Source: GHF

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