Action for Healthy Kids Helps People from Low-Income Communities Attend Childhood Obesity Conference and Produces a Report on the Conference
Leveraging leadership to overcome childhood obesity by extending the impact of the Healthy Schools Summit 2005
Action for Healthy Kids, a national nonprofit organization that works to address the epidemic of overweight, undernourished and sedentary youth by focusing on changes at school, recruited community leaders from poor, urban areas to attend a national conference entitled Healthy Schools Summit 2005.
The organization, based in Skokie, Ill., also prepared and disseminated a report on the conference presentations and related information on how to improve student nutrition and increase physical activity in schools.
Key Results
- Thirty-two people recruited from low-income communities of color in 25 states attended the Healthy Schools Summit 2005 and received stipends to cover their travel expenses.
- Action for Healthy Kids published and disseminated a 41-page report — A Mission Becomes a Mandate: Campaign for School Wellness — on strategies discussed at the conference and related information.
Funding
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) supported these two activities from mid-June 2005 to mid-June 2006 with an unsolicited grant of $159,347 (ID# 053306).