Action for Healthy Kids

"School Wellness" is a term that every parent needs to know. School wellness impacts children's performance in the classroom and influences their lifelong habits of healthful eating and active living. School wellness encompasses healthy eating, adequate physical activity, nutrition education and physical education for all students. Improving school wellness practices is essential to decreasing childhood obesity and preparing children to live healthy, active and productive lives.

Some known facts:

Healthy children learn better.
The voice of the parent can change schools.
Without parental involvement, school wellness initiatives simply cannot succeed.

The Cridersville PTO would like you to know we try our best to provide those extras to students that also promote healthy students. Please visit Action for Healthy Kids to learn more. It is a national nonprofit organization that addresses the epidemic of overweight, undernourished and sedentary youth by focusing on nutrition and physical activity policies and practices in schools.

Action for Healthy Kids was founded in 2002 by former US Surgeon General David Satcher, in response to the Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity, which identified the school environment as one of five key sites of change.