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Salsa was a community-based project that sought to promote health through nutritional behavior change in a Latino community of San Ysidro, California. As a demonstration project, Project Salsa sought to institutionalize many of its interventions. As such, the project began with an extensive needs assessment and developed an advisory council. The interventions, which were developed based on results from the needs assessment and input from the advisory council, included coronary health disease risk factor screenings, meal preparation classes, newspaper columns, point-of-purchase education, school health and cafeteria programs, and breastfeeding promotion. Principal Investigator: John P. Elder,Ph.D., MPH Dates: Sept 1987 Sept 1992 Total Funding: $690,000 Funding Source: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Contact Person John P. Elder,Ph.D., MPH Major Findings: Two of the interventions are still in operation. Elder, J.P., Campbell, N. R., Candelaria, J.I., Talavera, G.T., and Mayer, J.A., Moreno, C., Medel, Y.R., Lyons (1998). Project Salsa: Development and institutionalization of a nutritional health promotion project in a latino community. American Journal of Health Promotion, 12(6), 391 Elder,J.P., Castro F., deMoor, C., Mayer, J., Candelaria, J., Cambell, N., Talavera, G., and Ware, L. (1991). Differences in cancer-risk related behaviors in latino and anglo adults. Preventive Medicine ~, 751-763. Delapa, R., Mayer, J.A., Candelaria, J., Hammond, N.R., Peplinski, S., deMorr, C., and Elder, J.P. (1990). Food purchase patterns in a latino community: Project Salsa. Journal of Nutrition Education,(3), 133-136 Peplinski, S.K., Hammond, N.R., Candelaria, J., Talavera, G., Mayer, J., Hofstetter, C.R., and Elder, J.P. (1989). Assessing nutritional health needs in a United States border community. Border Health, 591),2-8