HKHC News

Baldwin Park, CA was featured on January 7, 2010 on CBS Evening News as a solution to childhood obesity. You can see the video clip here and the news story can be read here.

Somerville, MA was featured on January 3, 2010 on CBS Sunday Morning as a successful example of school and community change impacting childhood obesity. You can see the video clip here.

HKHC's Milwaukee Grantee Meeting was featured on June 6, 2011 on the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.  You can see photos and read the coverage of the meeting and field trips here.

Louisville, KY was featured on June 2, 2011 in a Woman's Day article as one of three cities working to create healthier environments for healthy eating and physical activity.

Louisville, KY's work was featured on June 13, 2011 in a New York Times article about the city's efforts to combat obesity through policy and environmental change.

Baldwin Park's Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities work was featured on CBS News on June 15, 2011. The video highlights the partnership's work with corner stores and Healthy Selection promotions.

Columbia, MO's work was recently featured in the Columbia Daily Tribune. The PedNet Coalition has teamed up with Refugee and Immigration Services to provide bicycles, helmets and training for refugees and immigrants. Read about it here!

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities strategies and grantees are featured in a peer reviewed paper published on December 15, 2011 on the CDC website entitled " Strategies Proposed by Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Partnerships to Prevent Childhood Obesity" by Punam Ohri-Vachaspati, PhD, RD;