Alliance for a Healthier Generation

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, one of the nation’s largest children’s health organizations, has a strong focus on combating childhood obesity, building healthier environments, and empowering youth to develop lifelong, healthy habits. The Alliance has collaborated with hospitals, health departments, school districts, universities, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and statewide and regional obesity prevention and school health coalitions. It has a broad network of constituents: state health and education professionals, school nutrition staff, nutrition promotion organizations, and school health champions.

Through well-established collaborations, the Alliance will increase the number of states, school districts, and schools that are supporting policies, practices, and programs to increase healthy eating among youth. The Alliance will provide professional development and technical assistance, on site and virtually, to CDC-funded grantees in state agencies and local education agencies Grantees will develop action plans to make improvements using CDC tools and resources. The Alliance will build a squad of trainers among CDC grantees who implement trainings in their states to build the capacity of school district and school-level nutrition leaders. In addition, CDC grantees will receive customized, ongoing technical assistance to further education and partnerships for the achievement of long-term outcomes.
Efforts will be made to communicate the positive association between health and academic achievement. Success stories will be generated by field staff, content experts, and communication specialists. Key program partners will participate in the evaluation and performance measurement planning process across the five-year period of performance.