Lead Agency: Summit Health Institute for Research and Education

This project is funded under the Foundation's program, Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities, which was designed to implement systems, policies and environmental strategies with potential to prevent childhood obesity in populations at greatest risk. The purpose of the project is to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic through policy and systems change which promotes healthy living among underserved children and families of the District of Columbia. Deliverables include instituting the federal Afterschool Supper Program, creating a saturation index of unhealthy food and beverage vendors, implementing and enforcing policies that will create a Park Keepers workforce and creating policies to reimburse community-based fitness and healthy living programs by insurers.