Every Kid Healthy Week: What is it?

Every Kid Healthy™ Week is an annual observance created in 2013 to celebrate school health and wellness achievements. Recognized on the calendar of National Health Observances and observed the last full week of April each year, each day of the week shines a spotlight on the great actions schools and families are taking to improve the health and wellness of their kids and the link between nutrition, physical activity, mental health and learning – because healthy kids are better prepared to learn and thrive!

Anyone can get involved with Every Kid Healthy Week events: Schools are invited to host a live or virtual event (or multiple!) during Every Kid Healthy Week, and families and community members can participate by joining events or by doing activities at home.

• Check out our Every Kid Healthy Week Toolkit. This toolkit includes materials to help you organize, promote, and celebrate the week within your school community. Sign up today to get started on planning your week!
• Register your school’s event. By registering your school’s event, AFHK is able to share success stories and highlight your events on social media.
• Share on social media using #EKHW22. Share your creativity and inspire others to celebrate by sharing your celebrations on social media!
• Host an Every Kid Healthy Week celebration. Use the ideas and activities found on this webpage to brainstorm ways to celebrate!

Take action during Every Kid Healthy Week.

Anyone (students, parents/caregivers/families, educators, school administrators, community members, businesses) can take action during Every Kid Healthy Week by following the Every Kid Healthy Week daily themes or building your own activities based on your needs or schedule. Get daily activity ideas here.

Action for Healthy Kids was created to build strong communities where all children have the nourishing foods they need to learn and thrive, the age-appropriate physical activity they need to be happy, healthy, and ready for learning. Together, we can help kids and families thrive

Donate to support our mission here

Show us your Every Kid Healthy Week!

• Follow us on social media: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
• Tag us @act4healthykids on Instagram, @ActionforHealthyKids on Facebook, or @act4hlthykids on Twitter  and use #EKHW22 so we can see—and share—whatever everyone is doing!