Promising Practices

Abstract

Through their Active Living for All (ALfA) initiative, the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (the Center) awarded contracts to organizations throughout Minnesota to work on implementing policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes to support active living. During the course of the initiative, the Center reframed its work to promote health equity. This Promising Practices brief describes how three ALfA-funded projects: Get Fit Itasca (working in and near Grand Rapids), Live Healthy Red Wing, and Sawtooth Mountain Clinic (located in Grand Marais) used effective ways to introduce and advance the concept of health equity through their work in greater Minnesota.