Healthy Kids Challenge helps people take action for kids to eat, move, and enjoy balance

Our mission is to “help school, health, business and community leaders take action for kids to eat, move, and enjoy a healthy balance."

We offer solutions through workshops, events, toolkits, a website, newsletters and programming. 

Six healthy eating and active play practices make teaching and learning simple and fun.     

HKC offers many resources and services and different levels of involvement. 

You can do SOMETHING!

• My Healthy Challenge of the Month. A free monthly E-newsletter offers a personal healthy eating or physical activity challenge. The focus is on six healthy messages – not weight. Three to five simple challenges are offered each month. Pick at least one to Take the Challenge for your own wellness and see how many others you can get to Take the Challenge with you!
• A Teaching Toolbox that includes
• • Resources with tips you can download. There are options for individuals, families or youth leaders and teachers
  • WOWS, a free weekly E-newsletter with simple action ideas for youth leaders and teachers
  • An online store with youth leader and teacher idea toolkits, many focused on K-5, but also ideas and resources for all ages
  • Options for training and workshops or presentations
  • At higher levels of involvement, HKC offers program development
  • Specifically for schools, HKC offers a year long distance assistance “School Challenge”. Participating schools receive resources, tips, and help by phone and E-mail with help to put wellness policies into action and help kids reach their best learning potential.
• Special events such as a healthy fundraiser option, Dance for Health™, or the middle school Stirring Up Health™ Recipe Contest, help provide fun opportunities with an added learning experience bonus.

Whatever YOU can do…a tiny step or a bigger leap…HKC can help you find something that works. Take the Challenge today and be a *KidLink™, a person who can help kids make healthy eating and physical activity choices a habit.

• Great beginnings! Healthy Kids Challenge (HKC) was founded in 1998. Cooking Light magazine hired current HKC Director, Vickie L. James, RD, LD as director and creator following a highly successful Cooking Light community outreach project. Read more about HKC's history with Cooking Light...
• Award winner! Healthy Kids Challenge has received the honored American Dietetic Association Anita Owen Award for Most Innovative Educational Program and the Advertising Council -Community Action Network (CAN) Community Action Networks Service Award Honoring the Media & Corporate Communities for Outstanding Solutions to Social Problems.

HKC uses the most current evidence-based recommendations of Centers for Disease Control and other leading organizations. Use this link for information about HKC strategies and outcomes.

*KidLinks™” People who can help kids make healthy eating and physical activity choices a habit.