The Healthy Kids Initiative is a faith based advocacy effort to reduce childhood obesity in the Rosedale neighborhood of Kansas City by promoting active living and healthy eating. The four strategy teams of the Healthy Kids Initiative - Community Gardens and Access to Healthy Foods, Out of School Activities, Safe Routes and Faith in Action - meet regularly and are open to all.

The Healthy Kids Initiative has held three community forum events, a kickoff at the garden in May, which featured local DJ Miles Bonny, Unified Government Commissioner Ann Murguia, and Dr. Joseph Donnelly from the University of Kansas Medical Center; and an alternative Healthy Kids Carnival in July, which was organized jointly by the parent committees of Rainbow Mennonite CDF Freedom School and the Healthy Kids Initiative, and was a benefit for Rainbow Mennonite CDF Freedom School. In November, the Healthy Kids Initiative hosted a National Course on Safe Routes to School at Bethel International Center of Worship. 

The Healthy Kids Initiative was formed as a partnership between Rosedale Development Association, the Rosedale Ministerial Alliance, KC Healthy Kids and the University of Kansas Medical Center. We are funded in part through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

For more information or to sign up for a strategy team, contact Heidi: (913) 236-6337 or rosedalehealthykid@att.net

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