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Voices for Healthy Kids: Promoting Health and Equity for Children

A joint initiative of RWJF and AHA, working to create healthier environments for children to live, learn, and play. Supporting policies that increase access to healthy food and beverages, promote early childhood development, create equitable schools, and build active, livable communities.

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Voices for Healthy Kids: Promoting Health and Equity for Children

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  1. Voices for Healthy Kids is a joint initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and American Heart Association (AHA) working to make the places live, learn and play healthier for all kids.

  2. Impact

  3. Healthy, Accessible Food and Beverages: Support state and local policy that increases access to healthy food and beverage, decrease access to unhealthy food and beverages, makes it easier to eat healthy, and drives industry innovation to improve the food and drinks we all need. • Specific policies include: • SNAP Incentives • Healthy food purchasing • Healthy restaurant meals • Sugary drink taxes

  4. Early Childhood: Supporting early childhood development opportunities at the state and local level with a focus on children most in need, that increase healthy outcomes, set children on a path to life-long health, and support families. • Specific policies include: • Early care and education • Early Head Start/Head Start

  5. Healthy, Equitable Schools: Promote the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WCSS) model to support and build broad and inclusive healthy, school environments, particularly in marginalized or under-resourced communities. Work to support and build healthy schools for all children regardless of where the live or go to school. • Specific policies include: • School foods • Physical education: • Physical activity • Wellness policies • Water access in schools

  6. Active, Equitable Communities: Support state and local policies and funding , and influence the use of federal dollars in states, that make communities and neighborhoods more livable by ensuring all people can get safely to where they need to go – work, school, the library, grocery stores, or parks, starting where the needs are greatest. • Specific policies include: • Complete streets • Bike and pedestrian appropriations • Safe Routes to School 

  7. Preemption Efforts: • Preventing states from blocking local actions that promote health, well-being, and equity. • Specific policies include: • Preemption Repeal • Preemption Defense

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