External Resources Directory

In many urban and rural communities, corner stores, convenience stores, bodegas and gas stations are the only nearby places to buy food. But small food stores commonly sell highly processed foods that are high in fat and low in nutrients. For that reason, health advocates across the country are encouraging corner store operators to sell healthier foods, such as fresh fruits and vegetables.This toolkit developed by American Heart Association includes a comprehensive guide, fact sheets, and promotional materials.

In this toolkit, you will find tactics to help your community create and support a healthy learningenvironment for kids. More specifically, the content will help you advocate for eliminating unhealthy food and beverage marketing in schools and on buses so that kids can develop healthy food preferences and habits to last a lifetime! Voices for Healthy Kids is excited to offer this toolkit—as well as one for each of our policy priorities—to support communities striving to live, learn, and play in healthy environments.

In this toolkit, you will find tactics to help your community improve the nutritional quality of restaurantmeals marketed to and served to children. More specifically, the content will help you advocate forpolicies requiring restaurants to serve kids’ meals that meet nutritional standards. Voices for HealthyKids is excited to offer this toolkit—as well as one for each of our policy priorities—to supportcommunities striving to live, learn, and play in healthy environments.

In this toolkit, you will find tactics to help children in your community live safer, more physically activelives and, more specifically, to advocate for state policies that promote Safe Routes to School programsand infrastructure. Voices for Healthy Kids is excited to offer this toolkit – as well as several others – tosupport communities striving to live, learn and play in healthy environments.This toolkit developed by American Heart Association includes a comprehensive guide, fact sheets, and promotional materials.

In this toolkit, you will find tactics to help your community increase opportunities to be physically active.More specifically, the content will help you advocate for changes that can enable community membersto use school facilities such as gyms, fields, and playgrounds. Existing liability laws often prevent sucheasy, shared use. Clarifying these laws can encourage more schools to open playgrounds and gyms totheir communities during non-school hours. States can also provide incentive and monitoring programsthat encourage wide adoption of shared use strategies. This toolkit focuses on clarifying liability; acompendium toolkit, which details tactics and messaging for incentives and local shared agreements isalso available. Voices for Healthy Kids is excited to offer this toolkit—as well as several others—tosupport communities striving to live, learn and play in healthy environments.