Action for Healthy Kids Inc.

Action for Healthy Kids mobilizes family-school partnerships to prepare kids to be healthy in body and mind. We help kids thrive by bringing families and schools together to ensure students have access to safe places to play and be active, nutritious foods, and healthy, supportive experiences.

Healthy Kids: Better World

Goal One: Providing sound and appropriate nutrition, physical education and opportunities for physical activity along with the knowledge and ability to make healthy choices to all children.

Goal Two: Fostering safe, healthy and stimulating physical environments that provide all children opportunities for active exploration, exercise, and social connections.

Goal Three: Cultivating stable and responsive relationships with their children or students that result in consistent, nurturing and protective interactions.

Action for Healthy Kids convened over 300 school and district leaders, educators, parents, caregivers and stakeholders for its first ever National Conference on Child Health and Well-Being: Real Talk. Real Solutions! at Loews Chicago Hotel from November 2 – 4, 2022. The three-day conference was designed to mobilize individuals to use the knowledge they gain to strengthen family-school partnerships in their communities and implement sustainable solutions that directly impact children.

Action for Healthy Kids and RMC Health, two established nonprofit organizations with decades of experience in serving school communities, have joined forces to tackle child health and well-being of America’s youth. An affiliation agreement between the organizations has been signed. “Both RMC Health and Action for Healthy Kids have a long history of serving students, families and school communities,” said Jay McHale, Jr., Action for Healthy Kids Board Chair. “Together, we are poised to increase our reach and impact exponentially.” Both organizations have decades of proven success working within school communities to train and equip partners and collaborating to improve child health outcomes. Yet, there is so much more work to be done to meet the urgent needs of America’s youth today and address the child health crisis that will affect generations to come. “Now, more than ever, we must join forces to better serve kids and families,” said Rob Bisceglie, President & CEO, Action for Healthy Kids. “I can’t think of a better partner than RMC Health, a leader in training and professional development, to advance this important work.” The merger will result in the availability of more robust programs and services, enhanced subject matter expertise, new partnerships, improved efficiency, and a greater capacity to serve the communities most in need. “This partnership will be a game changer,” said Shellie Pfohl, President & CEO of RMC Health. “Combining the complementary programs and services of our two organizations will allow us to serve the entire education ecosystem, from students and schools to state and federal organizations and government.”