NPLAN’s work help communities make themselves healthier was recognized today during the launch of “Let’s Move,” Michelle Obama’s new childhood obesity prevention initiative. The campaign promotes the availability of healthy, affordable food in schools and communities, and encourages more physical activity for American children.

A Mississippi mayor whose town has successfully opened up their school facilities to a youth basketball league named NPLAN as a resource for helping communities make healthy changes.

“There’s a group called NPLAN that’s funded through Robert Wood Johnson. They have some model policies for how you can share that liability, because people always worry about the liability,” said Mayor Chip Johnson of Hernando, MS. “There are ways to get past that so we can all share these facilities that are there.”