1. Alliance for a Healthier Generation and SNAP-Ed

2. OUR VISION
OUR MISSION
All young people deserve a chance to live healthier lives.
We work to empower kids to develop lifelong healthy habits by ensuring the environments that surround them provide and promote good health.
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation works to empower kids to develop lifelong healthy habits by ensuring the environments that surround them provide and promote good health.
Healthier Generation’s vision is that all young people, regardless of their zip code or life circumstances, deserve the chance to live healthier lives.

3. Our Fundamental Approach
Healthier Marketplace
Healthier Community Environments
Our approach addresses the places where children spend their time to ensure that they support good health. We also work to make the marketplace healthier through business sector agreements and state and local policy work. At the intersection of these two approaches is an environment where the healthy choice is the easy choice, where there is both supply and demand for healthier food, physical activity, and overall good health.

4. What We Do
Focus on health equity and reaching underserved populations of youth
Collaborative approach to advocacy and corporate practice change
Evidence-based frameworks and 6 step process of continuous improvement
From the start, Healthier Generation has distinguished itself by focusing on these 5 strategies:
Changing policies, systems, and environments as opposed to a focus on individual behavior change.
Our focus has always been on scaling up evidence-based practices while at the same time contributing to a greater evidence base on what works.
We foster and sustain change by creating a collaborative culture of continuous improvement in our nation’s schools and, increasingly, beyond our nation’s schools.
We build the capacity of the community-based institutions where children spend most of their time outside the home to become healthier places while, at the same time, partnering with large corporations to change their practices so that it becomes easier for children and families to make healthier choices. In essence, we are driving demand at the local level and changing supply at the national level.
Commitment to focus our resources on health equity and reaching all children, especially the underserved populations
Scaling up through field staff, technical assistance, virtual support, and customized consultation
Capacity building approach to policy, systems, and environmental change

5. Alliance Key Differentiators
Reach. Nation’s largest childhood obesity prevention program
Credibility. Evidence-based, comprehensive program that has been linked to reductions in student rates of obesity and overweight
Expertise. Specialization in trainings and technical assistance
Delivery. Data-driven decisions
Policy and Practice Change. Health policies and industry agreements
Leadership. Respected for approach and knowledge
The Alliance is uniquely poised to take on this work. We have extensive reach across the nation and are evidence-based. We have expertise in content as well as a particular strength in delivering effective trainings and technical assistance. Our work is data-driven and evidence-based. We are a respected thought leader and have led the charge around policy and practice change to create healthy food environments in youth-serving organizations.

6. MAKE COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTS HEALTHIER
We work with schools and in communities to improve the health of children; we continue to focus our work in communities that need our help the most.

7. Building healthier environments for +25 million students
in schools and youth-serving organizations across the country.
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+2,600 youth-serving organizations
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation delivers the nation’s largest evidence-based, childhood obesity prevention initiatives through our Healthy Schools and Communities Program.
The Healthy Schools and Communities Program is building healthier environments in more than 35,000 schools and 2600 youth serving organizations touching the lives of more than 25 million students nationwide.
+35,000 schools

8. Healthy Schools
Our Healthy Schools Program helps to create and sustain healthy school environments where students, especially those in greatest need, can learn more and flourish.
How does the Healthy Schools Program work?
We guide and support schools to implement policies and practices that meet federal requirements and further local health and wellness goals.
We help to identify the critical elements to create a healthy school environment through policies and practices that increase healthy eating and physical activity among students and staff.
We give schools – free-of-charge – the guidance, tools, and resources to help them make healthy changes.

9. Healthy Out-of-School Time​
Our Healthy Out-of-School Time Initiative is dedicated to creating healthier environments for before-school, afterschool, and summer programs to support the children who need it the most.
Research shows that kids who live in low-income communities and/or are racial or ethnic minorities are more likely to experience food insecurity, experience academic achievement gaps, and have fewer opportunities to be physically active.
Additionally, national data indicate obesity is more prevalent among children raised in low-income households and among children of color.  
Of more than 10 million children who participate in out-of-school time programs nationwide, over 70 percent, are from low-income households – households where a family of four makes no more than $45,000 per year and may make significantly less.
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The Alliance’s Healthy Out-of-School Time Initiative is dedicated to creating healthier environments for before-school, afterschool, and summer programs to support the children who need it the most.  
Modeled on the success of the Alliance’s ten-year-old Healthy Schools Program, the Healthy Out-of-School Time Initiative was founded in 2011, and is offered to out-of-school time programs at no cost.
Given the health needs of the population that of out-of-school time programs serve, these programs can be an essential component in addressing childhood obesity and protecting children’s health. 

10. Make healthy changes your way at your own pace:
The 6 Step Process is a circular journey where schools and sites continuously take a status check, work on making improvements, learn from successes and challenges and keep pushing the needle forward.
When schools and sites repeat the cycle each year, their healthy changes becomes embedded in the culture of the school and efforts to become a healthy environment are sustained.
Framework:
The second resource is our Framework of Best Practices, available for both schools and out of school time sites. These Frameworks were developed by a national panel of experts and provide schools and sites with a set of best practice guidelines to serve as a roadmap to building a healthier environment
The Frameworks identify the critical elements to create healthy environment through policies and practices that increase healthy eating and physical activity among students and staff.
Schools implementing the Alliance’s Healthy Schools Program Framework of Best Practices can earn recognition through the Alliance’s National Healthy Schools Award each year.
Make healthy changes your way at your own pace:
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES: Access onsite and virtual trainings for school/site staff to learn and network
CUSTOMER SUPPORT CENTER: Call or to receive guidance, answer questions, and help overcome obstacles
SUBJECT EXPERTS: Receive one-on-one support to address your schools or site’s needs
VARIETY OF RESOURCES: Access science-based quality resources, grant opportunities, and discounted materials
SMART FOOD PLANNER: Access kid-tested menu plans, recipes and Smart Snack-approved products to select healthier options that meet federal nutrition standards

11. MAKE THE MARKETPLACE HEALTHIER
We develop innovative business sector solutions that bring bold change for improving children’s health; we continue to work with more than 120 global food, beverage, health care and technology companies.

12. Change Supply Increase Access Create Demand
The combination of changing supply, creating demand, and increasing access is where the Alliance will impact the issue of equitable access to healthy food.

13. INFORM PUBLIC POLICY
We play a critical role in informing local, tribal, state and federal policy efforts that influence children’s health.

14. Inform Public Policy Priorities School Wellness Policies
Physical Education/Physical Activity
School Nutrition
Marketing in Schools
Water Access in Schools
Every Student Succeeds Act

15. Why Partner with Healthier Generation?
Healthier Generation guides state health and education agencies toward successful implementation of PSE strategies to create healthy schools and out-of school time sites
Healthier Generation is an expert in providing customized support to SNAP-Ed implementing agencies, districts, schools, and out-of school time sites
Healthier Generation delivers tailored programming, led by trained and certified health content experts, to help maximize program impact and sustainability

16. Support for SNAP-Ed PSE Approaches
Technical Assistance
Virtual Support
Customized Professional Development
How does the Healthy Schools Program work?
We guide and support schools to implement policies and practices that meet federal requirements and further local health and wellness goals.
We help to identify the critical elements to create a healthy school environment through policies and practices that increase healthy eating and physical activity among students and staff.
We give schools – free-of-charge – the guidance, tools, and resources to help them make healthy changes.

17. SNAP Ed Evaluation Framework Priority Indicators
MT3: Physical Activity and Reduced Sedentary Behavior
R2: Fruits and Vegetables
MT5: Nutrition Supports
ST7: Organizational Partnerships
MT8: Multi Sector Partnerships and Planning
MT9: Education Policies
LT18: Commercial Marketing of Healthier Foods and Beverages

19. Nancy Katz, MS, RDN