A SOUL STROLL FOR HEALTH

Soul Stroll is part of the African American Community Health Advisory Committee's (AACHAC) "Building a Healthy Body and Soul Project," the first partnership with African American, Hispanic and Pacific Islander churches to promote good nutrition and physical activity as keys to better health. Click here to see images of the first Soul Stroll.

The African American Community Health Advisory Committee is working with local churches to enroll people in a learn-by-mail nutrition curriculum and create church-based physical activity programs. Since it was introduced in September 2000, 600 people in San Mateo County have participated. Three churches have established activity programs. Participants will lead walkers in the May 18 Soul Stroll Community Walk for Health.

A community partner with Mills-Peninsula Health Services since 1995, the volunteer African American Community Health Advisory Committee has developed a network of 22 churches that help increase issues that disproportionately affect the African American community.

In 2001, the committee reached more than 16,000 people through individual contact, screenings, workshops, health fairs, focus groups, public programs, seminars and the internet.

For more information, please contact at (650) 696-4378.

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