Advocacy

Our public outreach at the national, state and city levels to:
 

• Advocate for policy shifts that put health and physical education back into the core curriculum for the American education system; 
• Advocate for policy shifts that move us towards safer environments affecting health (food systems, transportation systems, public space design systems, more nature) that encourage and enable people to be more physically active.
  
   

HealthCorps works on the grassroots level in schools and communities but also believes its advocacy efforts are needed to assist in moving America to the “tipping point” of wellness. Our Advocacy Efforts are currently focused on:

The FitKids  Act
Please go to http://www.iu2u.org/get_the_skinny.php  for more information to support this cause
For inquiries related to our advocacy please contact karen.johnson@healthcorps.net

Take Back your Health 2009
http://wyden.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=316933
An advocacy article by HealthCorps Advisor Dean Ornish
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-dean-ornish/dont-tread-on-me-transcen_b_271111.html
An advocacy article by HealthCorps Advisor Mark Hyman
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/why-health-reform-will-fa_b_248986.html

Past Advocacy

HealthCorps Board Members Oz, Ornish, Hyman and Bland advocate on behalf of integrative medicine and HealthCorps in front of the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (“HELP”) committee.

Click here for his testimony

HealthCorps President Bouchard advocates on behalf of service, the Serve America Act and HealthCorps in front of the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (“HELP”) committee.

Click here for her testimony