MediaWelcome to the News Room! Steps to a Healthier New Orleans is a community-based public health initiative created to help reduce the burden of asthma, diabetes and obesity and address the related risk factors of physical inactivity and poor nutrition. In the course of our work, both Steps and our partners make great strides in helping New Orleanians live longer, healthier lives. The News Room section of the website will be updated regularly with press releases, featured articles, great web links and more in order to keep you informed about the successful steps we’re taking and great opportunities that are available to the community.Check back soon! For our Press visitors, a Press Kit is currently in the works to give you more information on the scope and work of Steps. We look forward to future collaborative efforts that will help New Orleans become one of the healthier cities in the United States. Recently Added Press ReleasesPhysical fitness outreach month at City Hall 
As a part of Phase 1 of the Steps to a Healthier New Orleans (Steps) community outreach, Steps is conducting physical fitness and activity outreach activities within FEMA and private trailer park locations for residents displaced by Katrina and other locations in addition to New Orleans City Hall. Steps Launches Health Promotion Campaign to Fight Obesity
Don’t buy junk. This simple, blunt anti-junk theme is at the heart of our new outreach campaign. Radio and television PSAs encourage people to “Avoid Junk,” a timely message for residents who find it difficult to eat healthy foods in post-Katrina New Orleans. Steps hosts Kid's Run/Walk
A day of health based education and activity to be held at the Louisiana Children's Museum |
