NPLAN’s work to 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.”

Watch a clip of Mayor Johnson below:

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NPLAN’s wide range of materials focused on making schools healthier are a featured resource on LetsMove.gov, the website associated with the campaign.

LetsMove.gov also features “How to Make Healthy Changes in Your Neighborhood,” a PHLP fact sheet that provides a roadmap toward making healthier food more accessible.

Watch Michelle Obama talk about the new Partnership for a Healthier America, and why this initiative is so critical to the health of our nation: