Cops in Leadership Academy Want to Help Southern Dallas Kids Eat Better

Tiffany Williams remembers eating sodium-packed cups of noodles as a kid because it's all her family could afford. Now, at 38, Williams is a cop in southern Dallas and encounters kids in the neighborhood who are eating just as poorly. She wants that cycle to stop. Williams helped start a healthy eating education program at Youth World, a nonprofit youth center in Red Bird, teaming up with Dallas police Senior Cpl. Fredrick Patterson, community leader Alendra Lyons and Dallas County policy adviser Shay Cathey.  Continue reading...

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