At HealthCorps, not only do we work with teens to live healthier lifestyles — their families, schools, and local community get involved to sustain this positive culture of wellness!

In this episode of The Healthy Edit, HealthCorps Program Coordinators Mari Arandia and Erin Spillane share their experiences with connecting and nurturing healthier communities with the San Diego Unified High School District.

In order to support the health of their students, Mari and Erin first needed to encourage teachers and faculty to care for their own health — a challenge for many overwhelmed educators across the country. But with HealthCorps and SDUHSD's Wellness Council, schools now have empowered students, supported teachers, and local resources to live happier, healthier lives.

Special thank you to San Diego Unified High School District for supporting Teens Make Health Happen.

One goal for the HealthCorps team is making nutrition and food a passion for teens. Margarita Moran, our Program Coordinator in Oxnard, CA, has seen how that passion results in advocacy and positive health behaviors – particularly with her student, Lena, who joins her on this episode of The Healthy Edit.

Margarita and Lena reflect on food at home and in schools and the changes they are seeing through the HealthCorps program. They also discuss their entry for last year’s Project Health Showcase: Fresh Fridays, where Lena and her team work with local farmers to introduce new fruits and vegetables to their peers. Margarita and Lena are just one of the many near-peer mentorships that HealthCorps supports to champion teens to be the healthy change they want to see.

Special thank you to Oxnard Union High School District for supporting Teens Make Health Happen.

One of HealthCorps' values is empowerment in diversity, which reiterates our belief that the community members are the catalysts for change in their own communities.

Taneesha Watson and Eileen Carrell embody this value in our latest Healthy Edit episode, where they share how growing up in their respective tribes have allowed them to make unique impact on their communities through action and education with HealthCorps.

Special thank you to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona's Foundation for Community & Health Advancement for supporting Teens Make Health Happen.

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Welcome to the Healthy Edit! A podcast focused on — you guessed it — health and wellness, but from the perspective of HealthCorps, a national not-for-profit dedicated to teen wellness.

On this season of the Healthy Edit, you’ll be hearing directly from our staff, students, and other health advocates to discover the secret to what makes our wellness programming so impactful, inclusive, and sustainable and how you – just like our teens – can make health happen.