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"Launching Every Child as a Healthy Lifelong Learner"
Parents,
Children & Families
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Parents,
Children & Families
Our Community
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Healthy Kids Collaborative
Early Education Professionals
Policy Makers & Investors
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The Healthy Kids Collaborative is a two-county initiative based at the Down East Partnership for Children and funded with Kate B. Reynolds, Robert Wood Johnson, and Smart Start Funds. Members of this collaborative include representatives from all levels of government, nonprofits, private businesses, and community advocates.
The mission of the group is to reduce the obesity rate of children age 2-4 in Nash and Edgecombe Counties, which stand presently at 30%. This community effort is done though low-to no-cost activities with the community and working on policy and practice changes that benefit the community as a whole.
Presently the HKC is working on targeted areas to combat obesity including:
- Access to fresh fruits and vegetables though more community supported agriculture such as farmers markets, community gardens, and community support agriculture boxes, and increase offerings at local corner stores.
A Healthy Kid is a Happy Kid
- Access to places to play by increasing opportunities in rural areas for parks and improving conditions in present parks.
- Increasing the role of doctors and other medical professionals in preventing obesity by providing tools for families that are in need of the service.
Ways to get involved:
- Work with your business, church, community group and adopt a healthy food policy.
- Display or disperse a Places to Grow and Play map to people in which you have influence.
- Contact Melissa Lowry, Healthy Kids Coordinator, mlowry@depc.org or Alice Thorp,Healthy Kids Specialist, athorp@depc.org to learn more about how you can get involved in your community or with the Healthy Kids Collaborative to work on this BIG problem in Nash and Edgecombe County has with obesity.
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HKC Policy Summit March 2012:
PowerPoint Presentations:
