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Originally developed by Strang Cancer Prevention Center in 2001 with support from MetLife Foundation, our goal is to promote programs to help children, parents, and grandparents become advocates — in their families, homes, schools, and communities — for healthy eating and increased physical activity. The Healthy Children Healthy Futures program targets underserved young people, ages 9-13, in several of our country's larger urban areas — Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, and Dallas. Healthy Children Healthy Futures contiues to expand with new programs for children, parents and grandparents. In the Children's program, young people are offered a process and a forum to educate their peers, families, and communities about healthy eating and physical activities through media messaging. The health literacy messages, by and for children, and in the format of print, radio, and video/social media, are reviewed by peers and then disseminated through a variety of school and community-based networks. This program component, primarily after-school, also includes physical activity and cooking activities. The Parent program is, based on an innovative parent-to-parent mentoring model, supports parents as role models for healthy choices. It also supports family/parent health literacy in the home to fully complement the child component. In 2007-2008, HCHF added the Healthy Grand Families program, an intergenerational pilot demonstration that engaged grandparents as key influences in the lives of their grandchildren for making healthy choices. This initiative was developed in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics and Generations United. It features the pediatrician as an educator in a community setting, reaching out to grandparents in their own neighborhoods employing a culturally competent health literacy approach. Our program partners include: Action for Healthy Kids After-School All-Stars (The
Arnold Schwarzenegger Youth Foundation) After-School All-Stars of New York The After-School Institute (Baltimore) American Academy of Pediatrics Chicago Public Schools/After-School All-Stars Community Council of Greater Dallas Cooperative After-School Enrichment Kid Fitness Generations United “I HAVE A DREAM” FOUNDATION LA’s Best After-School Enrichment Program Mentoring USA New York City Department of Education Race With Purpose Shaping America’s Youth TASC
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ADVISORY BOARD NATIONAL DIRECTOR CHAIRPERSON Heidi Arthur Amanda Birnbaum, PhD Sharon Bush Hon. Ilene Zatkin-Butler, JD Angelica Cantlon Bruce Charash, MD Alwyn Cohall, MD Anna Maria Cugliari Stacy Curtin Thom Gatewood Leslie Goldman Freddi Greenberg Keith Hernandez Paula Veale Diane Whitty
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Howell Wechsler, Ed.D., MPH Centers for Disease Control and Prevention SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR/MANAGER
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