Want to Make Health Happen?
Here’s your Opportunity to Take Action

Join the Health Happens Here community and learn how to transform
health where you live, work, learn and play.

Take Action

Whether you’re a student, a parent, a small business owner, or even governor of the state, there’s a way for you to get involved. Here’s your checklist to answer the question, what can I do to make health happen here?

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  • Get a check-up. Under the new health care law your annual wellness visit to your doctor is free with your health care plan.
  • Small business owners can take advantage of the small business health care tax credit to help provide health coverage to your employees. Learn more »
  • Encourage your policymakers to remove subsidies for junk drinks, like sugary-soda, in the CalFresh food stamp program.
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  • Write a restaurant review about the nutritional quality of your school lunch or your child’s school lunch and post it on Yelp, Facebook or Patch.com.
  • Attend a Wellness Council meeting at your local school, and if your school doesn’t have a Wellness Council – ask why not.
  • Advocate your district’s school board for common-sense school discipline instead of suspending and expelling kids.
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  • Raise awareness about where health happens. “Like” Health Happens Here on Facebook or “Share” the Health Happens Here animated video
  • ¡Sí se puede! Get engaged in your community: Become a volunteer or an organizer, donate to a cause or participate in local organizations. Find a list of Health Happens Here Partners here.
  • Let your voice be heard. Vote! And encourage friends and family to vote too.

Talk & Listen

Join our online communities to connect with other people and organizations making health happen. We support conversations where diverse viewpoints are heard and respected, so check out our guidelines and policies first. Then read up on tips to have greater impact in social media.

Conversation Guidelines And Policies

We encourage respectful dialogue online. To support a lively and welcoming community, we ask that you follow these simple guidelines.

  • Be respectful
  • Be responsible
  • Stay on topic
  • Protect your privacy
  • Know what’s prohibited


Tips & Tricks: Get Engaged on Social Media

Social media offers a unique opportunity to connect, interact and engage with a virtual community of people with the same interests. For the social media newbies, we’ve provided some tips to get started. Please also review our Guidelines and Policies before engaging in our social media communities.


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Health happens where we live, learn, work and play. What does Health Happens Here mean to you?

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Focusing on fresh food access, safe streets and places to walk and play

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Focusing on giving rise to healthier communities, encouraging Affordable Care Act enrollment, and helping small businesses implement the ACA

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Focusing on healthier school foods and drinks, fresh free drinking water in schools, exercise during the school day, and common-sense school discipline.

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Official articles, videos and press releases from the California Endowment promoting improvements in the health status of Californians.

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News releases on the California FreshWorks Fund—a partnership loan fund created to increase access to healthy food in communities, spur economic development, and inspire innovation in healthy food retailing

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