Responding to a Request: Gender-Exclusive Swims in a Somali Community

This installment of Local Acts describes a creative intervention to improve physical activity among Somali immigrants in Seattle, Washington.Moore et al. describe how they designed a culturally sensitive intervention to foster swimming as a form of physical activity in this community by enhancing access to public pools and creating a social support network around the swim events.This is a creative, small-scale example of putting evidence-based strategies into effect.The Community Guide for Preventive Services Studies has identified both social supports and access improvement as highly effective strategies to get people to be more physically active.