Phoenix, AZ – This Saturday, March 28^th, 2009, Concilio Latino de Salud welcomes Phoenix residents to ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!™ This annual FREE event promotes family physical activity, better health, and wellness for Hispanic families and people of all ages and all sizes. The event will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Cesar Chavez High School, located at 3921 W. Baseline Rd (between Baseline and 39^th Avenue) in Laveen.

Participants will enjoy an Arizona Diamondbacks wiffle ball field, tennis clinics from the US Tennis Association, dance lessons, sports clinics, dancing to live music by local groups Grupo Caribe and After Midnite, and a lucky raffle winner will ride away with a new bicycle.

A special feature will be Para un corazón saludable heart health clinics, including workshops on atherosclerosis, and FREE screenings for cholesterol and high blood pressure. There will also be FREE health screenings for diabetes and dental screenings for kids will also be on site.

According to Dr. Elizabeth Ortiz de Valdez, Director of the Concilio Latino de Salud, "¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!™ reminds us that people of all ages and sizes can make movement a part of their daily lives — and have fun doing it! Dance, learn a new activity, or walk with family or friends. There are hundreds of great ways to get up and get moving for your health."

The event is FREE and open to the public as well as to journalists and coverage is invited.

"Making movement a daily part of your life is one of the most important steps you can take for your and your family's health," said Dr. Jane L. Delgado, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, the nation's leading Hispanic health advocacy group. "We are grateful to our sponsors, including national sponsors AstraZeneca, Health Foundation for the Americas, and United States Tennis Association and our national media sponsor Univision Communications, for their support of ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!™ and look forward to a great day in Phoenix of activity and fun for the whole family!

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About the Concilio Latino de Salud (CLS)
Concilio is a 501(c)(3), nonprofit, community-based organization that provides culturally competent, linguistically appropriate prevention education about a wide range of health topics of great concern to the Hispanic community including: HIV/AIDS and other STIs (sexually transmitted infections), cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity, inhalant/substance abuse among young adults, preventative vaccinations for babies and children, tobacco use elimination and others. We actively pursue goals set by the national and state projects such as Healthy People 2010 through programming, advocacy, public policy analysis, workshops, community-wide education, service and resource referrals, applied research, and media links.

About the National Alliance for Hispanic Health (the Alliance)
The National Alliance for Hispanic Health is the nation's foremost source of information and trusted advocate for the health of Hispanics. The Alliance represents thousands of Hispanic health providers across the nation providing services to more than 15 million each year, making a daily difference in the lives of Hispanic communities and families. For more information, visit http://www.hispanichealth.org or call the Alliance's Su Familia National Hispanic Family Health Helpline at 866-783-2645.

About the Health Foundation for the Americas (HFA)
HFA is the support organization for the National Alliance for Hispanic Health. HFA encourages philanthropy to give voice for the power and promise of Hispanic community-based solutions and at the same time challenge medicine and science to apply the lessons from the Hispanic health experience to benefit all communities.

About ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!™
¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!™ is the premier national family physical activity and healthy lifestyle event series with a 10 city tour in 2009 expected to attract over 25,000 participants. The family-oriented events are organized by ten leading Hispanic community-based organizations and are tailored to the interests and cultures of their community. Events are being held in Albuquerque, NM; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Phoenix, AZ; San Diego, CA; San Ysidro, CA. The series is presented by the National Alliance for Hispanic Health and the Health Foundation for the Americas along with its national sponsors: AstraZeneca, Univision Communication's Salud es vida ¡Entérate!, and the United States Tennis Association (USTA). More information is available by calling 1-866-783-2645, texting VIDA to 30644, or visiting http://www.hispanichealth.org/vida/