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Virginia Action for Healthy Kids

Welcome to the Virginia Team

Action for Healthy Kids is the nation’s leading non-profit and largest volunteer network fighting childhood obesity and undernourishment by partnering with schools to improve nutrition and physical activity to help our kids learn to eat right, be active every day, and be ready to learn.

In 2009-2010, Virginia Action for Healthy Kids has a unique opportunity to bring together leaders that want to create healthier schools and kids around the state.  Working with the Virginia PTA, we will promote the Fuel Up to Play 60 initiative to Virginia’s schools.  The Team will bring together parents, teachers, school nurses, school nutrition directors and students to increase wellness policy implementation around the state.

Looking Ahead 

Our goals are to:  

• Recruit active volunteers across the state to help create healthy schools for our children.
• Train schools to use Fuel Up to Play 60 to increase awareness of wellness programs.

Get Involved

There are many opportunities to get involved with Action for Healthy Kids in your state in support of efforts to create healthy schools and kids. To attend an Action for Healthy Kids events, make a financial contribution, sign on to become an advocate, or share your ideas, please join our Team!

Our Favorite Resources 

• Engaging Parents in School Wellness: Lessons Learned by the Virginia Action for Healthy Kids Team The Virginia Team was one of the first to engage parents as partners to create healthy schools.  This report shares the results of our parent engagement project that involved parents, teachers and children to improve nutrition and physical activity in rural schools.  This work also inspired the following fact sheets for Virginia families and schools
• Healthy Families Tips on being active with your kids.
• Healthy Rewards for Kids Tips on offering alternatives to food as rewards
• Healthy School Fundraising How to raise money and promote good health
• School Parties: Putting the Health into Fun Fact sheet on making school parties and celebrations healthy and fun