Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future Champion Award

Martha T. Blaine, Executive Director, Community Council of Greater Dallas, and Julia Easley, Advocacy Director, Children’s Medical Center, receive the Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future Champion Award certificate from Acting Surgeon General Steven K. Galson.

Following the award presentation, Rear Admiral Galson met with coalition and community leaders for a Roundtable discussion to discuss childhood obesity prevention and learn about existing prevention programs in Dallas.  More information about the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention Initiative is available at http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/obesityprevention/.