Take Action, Visit the Following Organizations

The National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN) provides leaders in the childhood obesity prevention field with focused legal research, model policies, fact sheets, toolkits, training and technical assistance to explain legal issues related to public health. Our goal is to help create strong childhood obesity policy interventions that will reverse the epidemic by 2015.

Public Health Law & Policy (PHLP ) partners with government staff, advocates, and other community leaders to provide practical solutions to a wide range of public health problems. Our team of staff attorneys, city planners, and policy analysts research and answer tough policy questions, clarify and demystify the law, develop ready-to-go model policies, and "train the trainers" to equip community leaders with the confidence and capacity to put our tools to work. Together, we transform communities to ensure the healthy choice becomes the easy choice.

The Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Cities Campaign, a partnership of the League of California Cities, the California Center for Public Health Advocacy and the Cities, Counties and School Partnership is a campaign that works with California cities to adopt policies that will improve the physical activity and food environments for all residents.

Healthy Eating, Active Communities (HEAC) shows how communities can reshape the food and physical activity environment to improve children's health. Schools, community groups and public health departments collaborate at HEAC sites in six low-income communities.

The Let’s Move! campaign, started by First Lady Michelle Obama, has an ambitious national goal of solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight. Let’s Move! will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that will engage every sector impacting the health of children and will provide schools, families and communities simple tools to help kids be more active, eat better, and get healthy.

One Stop Shopping for Human/Social Services

The RC Family Resource Center is home to over 30 non-profit partner agencies providing a wide range of health and social services, such as family counseling, crisis intervention, financial management, legal aid, housing and many others. Human services and support programs help foster a Healthy RC.

Get Answers Online About Healthy Mind – Body - Earth

Find articles that answer your questions on just about any topic in the Rancho Cucamonga Library’s online database. Healthy lifestyle databases include collections on Agriculture; Environmental Studies and Policy; Gardening, Landscape & Horticulture; Health & Wellness Resource Center, Nursing and Allied Health, Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine, and Psychology.

The Library’s Virtual Reference Desk will help you find reliable resources on the Internet. You can email your question and get an answer within 24 hours from a reference librarian or checkout the web pages on sports & recreation, health & medicine, and recycling.

Check out RCTV-3 to Learn What’s Happening in Rancho Cucamonga

The City’s government access channel provides information on programs and events sponsored or co-sponsored by the City of Rancho Cucamonga, local school districts and other government agencies. The City currently hosts a show entitled "Healthy RC Living" which features health-related topics and events within the City. Tune in every day except Wednesday's* at 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. * Council Meeting airs on Wednesday's