The Active School Acceleration Project, an initiative of ChildObesity180 and conducted in collaboration with Tufts University, announced the launch of their national ...
Teen pregnancies have declined dramatically in the United States since their peak in the early 1990s, as have the births and abortions that result; in 2008, teen ...
The American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) has initiated a project that will develop guidance for states on the horizontal linkages of health and human ...
Jamba Juice and the National Gardening Association's KidsGardening are offering the It's All About the Fruits and Veggies grant program to provide schools ...
For homeless youth, playing soccer with Street Soccer USA is the equivalent of a corner kick: A new start after the ball has gone out of bounds. Street Soccer ...
First Lady Michelle Obama and United States Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack unveiled new nutrition standards for school meals, which will, ...
Join Action for Healthy Kids for a series of interactive webinars designed to showcase the health, fiscal, and academic benefits of effective school breakfast ...
Healthier Middle Schools: Everyone Can Help is a series of communication tools designed to help you engage teachers, principals, parents, food service ...
While boosting college access and success can seem complicated and expensive, officials in one state have found that some solutions are relatively simple: like, help ...
As one of the many outgrowths of the sweeping federal health care law, health insurers and employers must now pay the cost of screening children for obesity and ...
The Health Resources Administration makes grants to organizations to improve and expand health care services for underserved people, focusing on the health ...
Armed with only a bicycle and a master's degree in public health from Oregon State University, Sara Salo will set out on a 6,000-mile trek across the United ...
Advances in diverse scientific, psychological, and economic fields are catalyzing an important paradigm shift in our understanding of health and disease across the ...
Karl Kallgren, director of the Union City Sustained Youth Development Project, talks to NCFY in this podcast about the highly personalized youth program that ...
This white paper, which was completed in March 2011 and funded by the Ford Foundation takes a deep dive into how youth, particularly youth of color, use technology ...
The Center on Budget and Policy Priority's Dottie Rosenbaum blogs on how the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp Program) is ...
Our Youth Advocates of the Year Awards honor top young advocates from across the country — individuals who have fought hard to promote tobacco prevention ...
The Obama administration's surprise announcement in December that it planned to give states broad leeway to pick the benefits offered under the federal health ...