The Power of Stories is an archive of projects submitted every year to Building Healthy Communities (BHC) Statewide Convening. It showcases work created throughout California highlighting the power of individual and collective efforts to promote health and demonstrates how stories have the power to re-imagine and transform our communities. Produced in partnership with the California Endowment.
Established in 2005, Grupo Folklorico Juan Colorado seeks to provide folk dance instruction to the children of Merced County in an effort to keep them active and healthy and ensure that the culture of folklore dancing stays in their lives.
This youth-developed narrative short film focused on the elements of Local Control Funding Formula in the local school district addresses the important issue of mental illness in youth.
Our teens are taking pictures of the environments within Roosevelt High School that influence their eating and physical activity choices. Their pictures give insight into where we can begin to focus to fight obesity and Type II diabetes
As we got together with the youth to discuss what kind of video they might want to work on, they said they wanted to do something that was important to our people. So we decided to make this an opportunity to let our youth lead us.