Vote: Best ‘Salud Heroes’ of Community Health

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Latinos face cultural and other barriers to healthy lifestyles. That’s why they suffer high rates of diabetes, obesity, certain cancers, and mental health issues.

Community advocates are here to help!

WATCH and VOTE for six new Salud America! #SaludHeroes of Community Health who work with Latino families and kids to push healthcare, stress relief, physical activity, water, and more.

For voting, we’ll enter you into a drawing for a FREE T-shirt and jump rope!

Gaby Medina: Water Promotora. Gaby pushes water over sugary drinks to Spanish-speaking Latino families, as part of a Colorado campaign.

Baby Café: Breastfeeding Help. Diana Montano and others started a Baby Café with peer counselors to support breastfeeding moms in San Antonio.

Felipe Pinzon: Aid for Immigrants. Felipe’s Hispanic Unity Florida group permanently offers bilingual legal aid to relieve stress for local Latino immigrants.

Jay Sanford: Swim Safety. Jay helped create vouchers for parents of children younger than 5 to get water safety education classes in Broward County, Fla.

Vida Sana: Door-to-Door Health. Dierdre Sullivan helps Vida Sana offer a promotores program to reduce Latino barriers to care in Colorado.

The Surani Sisters: iConquer. Three sisters created a program to help children as young as 3 develop healthy lifestyles in Corpus Christi, Texas.

The #SaludHeroes with the most votes from Jan. 30-Feb. 15, 2017, will be announced in an email and a social media messages from Salud America!

Go here to vote, enter the random drawing, and see contest rules.

Salud America! runs a periodic video voting contest. Salud America! is a Latino childhood obesity prevention network funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and led by Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio.