Alliance for a Healthier Generation

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation educates students on the importance of incorporating physical activity into their day. In 2011, the Alliance launched an exciting new effort creating healthier out-of-school time environments, making it easier for students to make healthier choices and become more active.

Los Angeles Clippers' basketball player Trey Thompkins visits the Palmetto Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia, to discuss the importance of exercising and living a healthy lifestyle with students. The Palmetto Elementary School is working with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation to create a healthier learning environment by providing healthy meals and implementing fun wellness opportunities.

Founded in 2005 by the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation is leading the charge against the childhood obesity epidemic by engaging directly with industry leaders, educators, parents, health care professionals and—most importantly—kids. The Healthy Schools Program works in over 14,000 schools to promote a more healthy school environment, with both healthier diets and increased exercise opportunities as key objectives.

President Clinton visits Miami Edison Middle School, an Alliance for a Healthier Generation Healthy Schools Program award-winning school. During the visit, President Clinton and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation announced groundbreaking industry agreements to help increase availability of healthy school meals for more than 30 million students across the country.

Selected by the Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, the Youth Advisory Board is comprised of 21 extraordinary kids who inspire others to make healthy behavior changes and to become leaders and advocates for healthy eating and physical activity.

In the fall of 2011, the Alliance launched a new and exciting effort to create healthier out-of-school time environments. The Alliance’s Healthy Out-of-School Time Framework works to help afterschool programs, community centers, youth clubs, and more improve access to healthier foods and increase opportunities for physical activity.

In the fall of 2011, the Alliance launched a new and exciting effort to create healthier out-of-school time environments. The Alliance’s Healthy Out-of-School Time Framework works to help afterschool programs, community centers, youth clubs, and more improve access to healthier foods and increase opportunities for physical activity.

To help students make healthier food and beverage choices in the school environment, the Alliance developed the School Beverage and Competitive Foods Guidelines. The Guidelines cover food and beverages offered outside of the reimbursable meal program such as products sold in school vending machines, a la carte lines, snack bars, fundraisers, and school stores.

Working with over 14,000 schools in all 50 states, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Healthy Schools Program seeks to create healthier environments where physical activity and healthy eating are accessible and encouraged.

The Alliance recognizes that where students spend their out-of-school time – afterschool programs, community centers, youth clubs, faith-based organizations, summer camps, parks, and recreation facilities – plays an essential role in empowering youth to make healthy choices and become leaders and advocates for physical activity and healthy eating. The Alliance’s Healthy Out-of-School Time Framework, helps organizations improve access to healthier foods, increase physical activity opportunities, and engage in positive youth development.

The Healthy Schools Program supports more than 14,000 U.S. schools in their efforts to create healthier learning environments and promote active lifestyles for the country’s youth. The program is part of the Alliance For a Healthier Generation, a partnership between the Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association.

A Youth Advisory Board member jumps rope as her form of staying active. Through the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a partnership between the Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, students have found innovative ways to implement healthier choices by increasing physical activity and participating in walk-a-thons, cooking classes, and fitness centers.

Students join together to commit to a healthy lifestyle through the Alliance for a Healthier Generation's Youth Advisory Board. The Youth Advisory Board is one of the only youth-led advisory groups in the country to focus on childhood obesity issues. The Alliance works with students who are a part of the Youth Advisory Board to promote healthier lifestyles both inside of school and out.

Through a partnership with Safeway, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation provides the necessary support for elementary and middle schools to grow their own school gardens. Some of the produce grown at these schools is used in the school cafeterias.

President Clinton — joined by Clyde Yancey, M.D., former President of the American Heart Association, and Susan Neely, President and CEO of the American Beverage Association — announces a voluntary reduction in beverage calories shipped to schools. The collaboration between the Clinton Foundation, the American Heart Association, and the beverage industry plans to reduce shipments of full-calorie soft drinks by 95 percent in less than three years. There are now healthier beverage options for students in schools across the nation that include more juice, bottled water, and low calorie options.

Through the Healthy Schools Program, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation promotes fun, easy ways to integrate physical activity and exercise into the day, both during and after school. The Healthy Schools Program is creating healthier learning environments in 14,000 schools across the United States.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation helps schools make afterschool physical activity programs more accessible to students. Founded in 2005 by the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation is leading the charge against the childhood obesity epidemic by engaging directly with industry leaders, educators, parents, health care professionals and—most importantly—kids. The goal of the Alliance is to reduce the nationwide prevalence of childhood obesity by 2015 and to inspire young people to develop lifelong, healthy habits.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation's Youth Advisory Board members enjoy a healthy meal. An agreement with industry leaders, brokered by the Alliance, will bring healthier school meals to more than 30 million students.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation promotes a healthier learning environment and educates students about healthy eating habits through the Healthy Schools Program. The Healthy Schools Program is providing healthier food options for students in 14,000 schools across the United States.

Since 2006, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation has worked to broker voluntary agreements with snack food and beverage industries to increase healthy options in schools across the country. These agreements have resulted in healthier choices available to students – including a 90 percent decrease in total beverage calories shipped to schools between 2004 and 2010.