Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Initiative
The Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program (CCROPP) has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to improve opportunities for physical activity and access to healthy, affordable foods for children and families.

Based on demonstrated success in increasing active living and healthy eating, the San Joaquin Valley is one of nine leading sites selected for the Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities initiative. This $44 million national program is RWJF’s newest and largest investment to date in community-based solutions to childhood obesity.

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities advances community-based solutions that will help reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. It focuses on changing policies and environments to support active living and healthy eating among children and families. The program places special emphasis on reaching children who are at highest risk for obesity on the basis of income, race/ethnicity and geographic location. It will support RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States by 2015.

For more information, please visit: http://www.healthykidshealthycommunities.org/