Creating Healthier Environments: Strategies and Examples for Afterschool and Summer Programs, Including 21st Century Community Learning Centers
Expanding
Minds and Opportunities: Leveraging the Power of Afterschool and
Summer Learning for Student Success is a collection of
articles on almost every aspect of afterschool and summer
learning programs. In Section
II. Expanding Skills and Horizons, written by our partners
Crystal Weedall FitzSimons, Director of
School and Out-of-School Time Programs, Food Research and Action
Center and Daniel W. Hatcher,
Director of Community Partnerships, Alliance for a Healthier
Generation, highlight that afterschool and summer
programs “play an important role in improving the health and
nutritional well-being of our nation’s children.” Many kids today
are considered obese, suffer from food insecurity or both.
Afterschool and summer programs are part of the strategy to help
alleviate those challenges. Access the complete article,
here.