PlayStreets: Creating Safe Summer Fun for Chicago’s Kids

PlayStreets encourages residents – and especially kids – to lead active and healthy lifestyles by creating safe, fun, and accessible play spaces. The collaborative program additionally promotes physical wellness, healthy communities, resources, and strengthens community relationships by engaging local leaders and neighbors. Miguel Lopez (CDPH) speaks with Cathi Ortiz (Calumet Area Industrial Commission) and Lisa Powell-Butler (Phalanx Family Services) about what PlayStreets brings to the South region of Chicago, successes and challenges each group experiences in their local involvement, and how the program improves the community.