Education Week – Daniel W. Hatcher
“Research shows a strong link between a young person’s practice of healthy habits, including a good diet and regular physical activity, and an improvement in their overall life outcomes. Encouraging healthy habits is an opportunity for children to relate to the larger world and see how their daily experience compares to others. Providing young people with an opportunity to take a leadership role in assessing and taking action on the most critical health issues of their community provides an opportunity for them to not only improve their own personal health, but also contribute to solving some of the world’s most pressing issues…From food insecurity to the environment and sport, a multitude of resources and organizations exist to support the effort to help young people think locally and globally.”(more)