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Michigan Action for Healthy Kids

Welcome to the Michigan 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.

Join us for Race for Healthy Kids on Saturday, October 2, 2010!  Go here for more details.

Michigan Action for Healthy Kids is a vibrant coalition of more than 1800 health and nutrition professionals, parents, students, physicians, business leaders, and other community members who take action in their schools, communities, and regions to make positive change.  As the largest Action for Healthy Kids Team in the country, Michigan has a strong voice at the state and national level. 

Michigan Action for Healthy Kids focuses its effort to achieve the follow goals: 

• Ensure that healthy snacks and foods are provided in vending machines, school stores and other venues within the school’s control;
• Encourage all schools to offer quality, daily physical education from grades pre-K through 12 to develop the knowledge, attitudes, skills, behaviors, and confidence needed to be physically active for life; and
• Increase consumption of healthy food choices and participation in physical education and physical activity among students.

Looking Ahead

Our goals are to:  

• Train schools to use Game On! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge as an effective and successful tool to implement school wellness initiatives and policies.
• Educate parents on healthy living and how to make changes in their children’s school that improve health.
• Recruit community members as change agents for health in their school communities.

Get Involved

Are you concerned about the health of Michigan’s youth?  If the answer is yes, join forces with leaders across Michigan who are taking action to improve students’ well-being through better nutrition and physical activity in schools.  Register now to become a member of Michigan Action for Healthy Kids!

Our Favorite Resources 

• Michigan Healthy School Action Tool (HSAT) An assessment tool to identify your school's existing strengths and need areas and to get ideas for meaningful change.
• Champions for Health- Materials from the health-focused youth leadership summit for middle school students in West and Central Michigan.  A great resource to engage youth as advocates for healthier school environment through environmental change.
• Michigan Action for Healthy Kids Regional Map The Michigan Team has a regional presence throughout the state.  Find your Michigan Action for Healthy Kids region, contact, and state Team liaison.
• Tips and Tools to Implement Michigan's Healthy Food and Beverages Policy This toolkit is designed to help schools implement the Healthy Food and Beverage policy in Michigan.