This project focuses on creating a community environment that promotes physical activity as essential to primary health care and achieved through education, communication, safety, and other programs in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood.

Plans include: developing support groups for physical activity such as walking clubs; creating culturally appropriate family programs (i.e. dance classes) at three school-based community centers; and conducting health education workshops. Other community efforts include: collaboration with police; park beautification; reinstatement of recess in schools; neighborhood organizing; "rails to trails" conversions; developing public policy; and promoting leadership among parents.

This project will be a showcase for predominantly Latino urban neighborhoods, a community-organizing model for active living that emphasizes resident leadership and decision-making and partnerships with small grassroots organizations.

This organization was one of 25 demonstration projects selected by Active Living by Design, a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).