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The Live Smart Texas coalition is no longer active. The coalition believed that collaborations could achieve better outcomes than individual entities working on their own. Members of the LST collaborative agreed to work toward the:

• Development of resources to build community infrastructure and capacity to implement culturally-competent, evidence-based practices, particularly in communities at high risk for obesity;
• Development of funding of an obesity prevention research agenda; and,
• Creation and dissemination of a shared obesity prevention policy agenda to address the needs of all Texans through the Partnership for a Healthy Texas and SOS Texas Team.

A convergence of social, political, economic, and programmatic interests led to the formation of the coalition in 2007. Our members represented all key sectors including policy, educational institutions, state organizations, research centers, professional associations, and local community groups. Some achievements include highlighting Texas activities at national and state conferences, receiving national funds for research partnerships, building community capacity through policy and leadership trainings, supporting the Partnership for a Healthy Texas policy agenda resulting in multiple obesity-related bills being passed, and serving as the Texas Team for the last nine Southern Obesity Summits (SOS). Many of our efforts were highlighted in a 2013 publication (Ory et al., 2013). Click here to read more about LST’s history and accomplishments.