Grant Funding Catalyzes Community Support for Health
Highland View Elementary School
Silver Spring, Maryland
Highland View received a Parents for Healthy Kids grant, which they used to catalyze their community’s support for healthy activities. In the spring of 2019, parents from the PTA noticed a gap at the school in health and wellness programming. With their hearts set on sustainable long-term changes and mindful healthy options, this group of parents sought resources and found Action for Healthy Kids. Notified of their award in August 2019, parents immediately began changing the environment at the school by engaging volunteers and adding a healthy nutrition opportunity at all school events, where it hadn’t been previously planned. When seeking assistance for grant implementation, parents and community members who had never before taken part in school volunteer opportunities came out of the woodwork to assist the school- including a public health professional, a nutritionist, a child yoga instructor, a registered nurse, and many more!
This grant funding has had a two-fold benefit for Highland View Elementary: Not only were they able to purchase products and items needed for additional health and wellness programs, but it helped create a wellness mindset and recruit a new group of volunteers to continue to grow the PTA-led programs.
This grant was made possible with funding from ALDI.
Categories: Elementary School, ALDI, Parents for Healthy Kids, School Grants, Maryland