Working to reverse childhood obesity
Cornell Cooperative Extension Ulster County (CCEUC) and several partners are leading an initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic in Kingston, NY through environmental and policy change.

The Community Heart Health coalition of Ulster County in one of the four committees are charged with seeing out the work plan of the grant.. CHHC is chairing the Healthy After School Snack Committee.

Members of this committee will work closely with the school district and afterschool programs to change the food available to youth during the afterschool hours. They will develop nutritional and cultural criteria for afterschool snacks, write a model healthy snack policy to be adopted by institutions in Kingston, and assist institutions to make changes in practices.

$360G grant boosts health, fitness initiatives for Kingston kids

KINGSTON — Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County has announced receipt of a $360,000 grant for four health and fitness initiatives for children involving city parks and the entire Kingston school district over a four-year period.

The agency is seeking volunteers to assist with the initiatives.

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