Action for Healthy Kids leads the fight against the epidemic of overweight, undernourished and sedentary youth by focusing on changes at school. The organization is helping to improve school wellness across the country — but it needed a way to capture and share the learnings from and impact of this remarkable effort, which involves a network of 51 state-level Teams representing thousands of volunteers, supported by a national coordinating group and guided by 60 national organizations and government agencies.
MMS Education worked with Action for Healthy Kids to develop a solution: a series of Field Reports with highly readable stories about what Teams are doing at the school building, district, community and state level. Each Field Report portrays specific strategies, approaches and lessons learned by those working on the front-lines to improve student nutrition and physical activity in order to promote learning.
Recent Field Reports include:
The audience for the Field Reports? Action for Healthy Kids Team members and funders, educators, public health advocates, the media and the general public interested in these issues. All reports are available at www.ActionForHealthyKids.org.
In addition to producing the Field Reports, MMS Education also develops promotional tools to help Action for Healthy Kids ensure the reports’ visibility and impact among the broadest possible audience. The Field Reports now serve as the foundation for an ongoing program to make the best of the Action for Healthy Kids Teams’ important work available to everyone.