Our Advocacy

Our Kids can't Wait!
Congress is getting ready to go home for summer recess without finishing important work – the passage of robust, well-funded child nutrition legislation. Your help is still needed to secure historic investments and improvements to help our kids and schools be healthier. Learn more and see how you can take action today. 

Other ways you can take action
• Join Action for Healthy Kids and become part of the team!
• Ask your school for its local wellness policy. After you’ve read it, send it to us by completing our simple form.
• Join your school’s wellness committee.
• Be a source of information on nutrition, physical activity and education and other school wellness issues for school leaders and local public officials.
• You can also contact your state team for local opportunities

Leadership and advocating for healthier schools through policy progress on nutrition, physical activity, PE and other school wellness issues has been a cornerstone of Action for Healthy Kids’ work since our founding in 2002.

Our unique approach allows us to work with partner organizations and our board of directors at the national level, and to encourage our grassroots volunteers to take action to educate and encourage improved standards and practices in their communities and states. For example:

• Founding and current board member Dr. David Satcher’s testimony and follow-up recommendations to the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee; and
• Executive Director Rob Bisceglie’s testimony before the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and the Institute of Medicine's Committee to Review National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program Meal Patterns and Nutrient Standards.

How you can take action

• Join Action for Healthy Kids and become part of the team!
• Ask your school for its local wellness policy. After you’ve read it, send it to us by completing our simple form.
• Join your school’s wellness committee.
• Be a source of information on nutrition, physical activity and education and other school wellness issues for school leaders and local public officials.
• You can also contact your state team for local opportunities.