More people, more power

Active Schools, whose organizational home is within Action for Healthy Kids, is dedicated to making it easier for schools to create an active school environment that provides students with at least 60 minutes a day of physical education and physical activity. They do it by supporting schools in their current reality by serving as a hub for best practices, programs and resources, as well as driving education system and policy change. The Active Schools movement is powered by more than 90 public and private sector partner organizations and 37,000 individual champions affiliated with more than 23,000 schools that serve over 13 million students.

In 2019, we teamed up with CATCH Global Foundation to reach nearly half of U.S. schools. CATCH improves children’s health worldwide by developing, disseminating and sustaining the CATCH platform and linking underserved schools to the necessary resources to create change for future generations. By bringing together CATCH’s programming and our model for integrating schools, families, and communities in Whole Child health, we will multiply the effect of grant funding, complementary resources, curriculum implementation, and programmatic support in schools and communities where they can have the greatest impact.

Our coalition of the largest school districts in the country advances the application of school health and wellness programs by encouraging district health leaders to share and collaborate on resources and best practices. The National School District Wellness Coalition is committed to helping school districts inform, coordinate, enhance and measure the development and implementation of equitable WSCC-related practices and policies through the collective impact model to ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged.