The Healthy Kingston for Kids partnership is working to make the Kingston City School District a better place:
- For the healthier choice to become the easier choice
- For your family to lead an active lifestyle – walking, biking, playing in parks, and enjoying their surroundings
- For your family to eat healthier foods – accessing affordable, local produce and healthy snacks
- For your family to get involved in shaping your environment to be a place you enjoy living
The partnership is doing this by advocating for policy and systems changes in the cities, towns, and school district that will lead to long-term physical environmental changes. We have five focus areas, and we welcome new volunteers and participants in our initiative!
Join Us in Mapping Routes or on a Walking School Bus!
Let’s Walk the Talk on your Streets!
Come Grow with Us!
Help Us to Create Tasty Changes!
Join the Kingston Junior Common Council or the HKK Steering Committee!
- Safe Routes to Schools and Parks - Coordinating a Safe Routes program to encourage children to walk and bike to school in your community.
- Kingston’s Complete Streets Advisory Council - Working towards an enhanced walking and biking friendly environment in your community.
- Gardens— Targeting an increase of community and school gardens in Kingston and working to bring affordable, locally grown food to your neighborhoods.
- Healthy Afterschool Snacks- Promoting a Healthy Afterschool Snack Policy for children in afterschool environments, sports events, school vending machines.
- Leadership and Capacity Building – Working to develop the leadership skills and capacity of adults and youth to create desired changes in the environment.
Our Mission
The Healthy Kingston for Kids partnership envisions a vibrant, child-friendly city alive with pedestrians and bicyclists. Children and families will have easy access to healthy, affordable, local food.
Our Funding Sources
The Healthy Kingston for Kids partnership is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of the Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities National Grant Program. We are one of fifty communities in the United States that received a $360,000 grant to implement environmental, policy, and systems change in order to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic nation-wide.
The lead agency Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County secured the grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The lead agency and partners provide a 50% match to the budget, and several local businesses have generously donated to our project.
The Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Network
The Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities national program office is housed at Active Living By Design, part of the North Carolina Institute for Public Health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The partnership in Kingston enjoys consistent contact with the national program office and receives technical assistance from a national network of healthy living advocates from around the country. Check out what other communities in our network are doing here:
www.healthykidshealthycommunities.org
