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Our toolkits provide valuable background information on all Voices for Healthy Kids issue areas. They serve as step-by-step guides for how to build campaigns, including recruitment, engagement and mobilization. Inside each toolkit, you’ll find resources like key message guides and customizable graphics, as well as sample language for action alerts, social media posts, letters to the editor and op-eds.

Healthy School Meals for All

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Healthy School Meals for All

When all students have access to no-cost, healthy school meals, children’s nutrition security improves, and school food service programs grow stronger. Since federal funding for no-cost school meals has expired, states can and must fill in the gap and ensure healthy school meals for all students.

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Active, Equitable Communities

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Early Childhood

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Health Equity

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Healthy, Accessible Food and Drinks

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Healthy, Equitable Schools

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Paid Family and Medical Leave

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Preemption Efforts

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Active, Equitable Communities

Early Childhood

Healthy, Accessible Food and Drinks

Healthy, Equitable Schools

Preemption Efforts

Bike Pedestrian Funding

Bike Pedestrian Funding

When streets are set up for everyone, we are all safer and healthier, as we are provided more opportunities to include physical activity in our daily routines. Instead of focusing solely on motor vehicles, our neighborhoods should be designed and built for the safety and health of all travelers with streets built to share.

Complete Streets

Complete Streets

People of all ages and abilities want to travel throughout their town safely and conveniently.

Safe Routes to School State Appropriations

Safe Routes to School State Appropriations

Safe Routes to School initiatives and policies bring enormous benefit to children and adults throughout a community. This toolkit lays out key elements and considerations for successful state-level Safe Routes to School campaigns.

Shared Use Expansion

Shared Use Expansion

Research shows that people who have parks or recreational facilities nearby exercise 38 percent more than those who do not have easy access. In order to ensure that more people have access to places to be active, we need to unlock the doors™.

Building Blocks

Building Blocks

Parents and caregivers want what is best for their children. They want them to enjoy the benefits of healthy food, active play and limited screen time. However, for the 60% of American children who spend time in early care and education programs, this is no guarantee.

Head Start

Head Start

This toolkit provides the resources you need to start your own campaign to advocate for greater Head Start and Early Head Start state funding and program expansion.

Out of School Time

Out of School Time

We need to prepare our kids for a lifetime of wellness, and helping improve the nutritional and physical activity offerings of out-of-school time programs is a great place to start.

Paid Family and Medical Leave

Paid Family and Medical Leave

Too many people are forced to sacrifice their savings or their jobs when they need time off to bond with a new child or care for themselves or their families. Throughout this toolkit, you'll find resources that can help you advocate for paid family and medical leave in your state.

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Corner Stores

Corner Stores

Join the effort to transform local corner stores in your community into places where everyone, especially children, can access the foods that help them stay healthy and strong.

Healthy Food Access

Healthy Food Access

Healthy Food Financing programs can help solve this problem by providing the necessary support to local grocers to open, expand, and improve grocery and corner stores in underserved areas. Improving access to healthy food through healthy food financing brings a triple benefit to communities: revitalized economy, job creation, and better health.

Kids' Meals

Kids' Meals

Given their growing role in families’ diets, restaurants should do their part to support families and help make sure all of us—especially children—have healthy options. The information throughout this site will help you talk to restaurant owners, community leaders, and decision makers in your town to make sure we take the right steps to serve kids better.™

Restock our Future

Restock our Future

Our communities are not yet places where families can reinforce the healthy habits they try to teach at home. But there’s something our policy-makers can do to support children and their parents. They can Restock our Future™.

SNAP Incentives

SNAP Incentives

Together, we can we can drive economic growth for local farmers and businesses and build a healthier community. Throughout this toolkit, you’ll find information and resources that can help you advocate for this issue and increase awareness about the benefits of SNAP incentives.

Sugary Drinks

Sugary Drinks

At a time when more people are concerned about their health and how what they eat and drink plays a crucial role in maintaining a healthy weight in order to prevent issues such as diabetes and heart disease, we must focus on making healthy drink options the norm for kids and families.

Water Access in Schools

Water Access in Schools

Throughout this toolkit, you’ll find information and resources that can help you advocate for school districts and schools to establish and implement policies that ensure kids have access to water at no cost throughout the school day as well as before and after school activities.

Exercise Their Minds

Exercise Their Minds

Voices for Healthy Kids is dedicated to ensuring that physical education is provided to all of our kids. It’s not only good for their health, it’s good for their minds. And that is good for all of us.

Healthy School Meals for All

Healthy School Meals for All

When all students have access to no-cost, healthy school meals, children’s nutrition security improves, and school food service programs grow stronger. Since federal funding for no-cost school meals has expired, states can and must fill in the gap and ensure healthy school meals for all students.

Junk Food Marketing in Schools

Junk Food Marketing in Schools

It’s time we stand up to marketers and say, “Don’t Sell Us Short™” of our—and our kids’—potential to live long, healthy lives. Join us to help create a healthier school environment for America’s kids.

Raise Your Hand

Raise Your Hand

When kids are healthy and active, we know they perform better academically and even behave better in the classroom.

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Preemption

Preemption

Across the United States, local governments have developed and implemented innovative solutions to improve their communities, and in some cases, that has led to wider adoption of those policies by other communities or even the state.

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