What is Action for Healthy Kids?
Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) is a nationwide initiative dedicated to improving the health and educational performance of children through better nutrition and physical activity in schools. This effort represents a response to our nation’s epidemic of overweight, sedentary, and undernourished children and adolescents. Healthy schools produce healthy students—and healthy students are better able to learn and achieve their true potential. AFHK fosters sharing and collaboration among diverse stakeholders to encourage and facilitate meaningful change in schools.
The mission of the Washington State Action for Healthy Kids Team is to improve children’s nutrition and physical activity in schools by collaborating with diverse stakeholders in advocating, promoting, and implementing state goals and initiatives. The team's goals include:
- School Nutrition: Adopt policies ensuring that all nutrition (foods and beverages) available on school campuses and at school events contributes toward eating patterns that are consistent with the Dietary Guidelines
for Americans. Provide age-appropriate and culturally sensitive instruction that
helps students develop the
knowledge, attitudes,
skills, and behaviors to adopt, maintain, and enjoy healthy eating habits.
- Physical Education: Provide all children, from
pre-kindergarten through grade 12, with quality daily physical education that provides age-appropriate and culturally sensitive instruction to help develop the knowledge, attitudes, skills, behaviors, and confidence needed to be physically active for life.
- Advocacy & Policy: Provide leadership and advocacy for school
nutrition, physical activity, and wellness policies to positively impact
the health of children, from pre-kindergarten through grade 12.
Join the Washington State Team!
The Washington State team meets twice a year. Most of the work on our action plan is completed by four sub-committees (see below). For more information on joining Washington AFHK and to get access to the “Members Only” sections of the national AFHK website, contact Adam Fletcher (Co-chair).
Be Involved – Join a Sub-Committee!
Four sub-committees meet to plan and implement activities to attain state goals and initiatives. The committees also provide leadership to the state team through an executive committee.
Committees:
- Team Development/Outreach
- Advocacy/Policy
- Training/Technical Assistance
- Evaluation
To learn about joining a sub-committee and get the meeting schedules, contact Mollie Langum at the Washington Dairy Council. |
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