Let’s Move Volusia’s YOUth Coalition is a public-private partnership whose mission is to address the problem of obesity among children and adolescents within a generation by creating healthy environments for children and families through policy, systems and environmental change.
The coalition has identified three priority areas to focus on in our community to create healthy environments:
Our partners have established workgroups in each priority area to
develop, leverage, and replicate
best practices (.pdf
- 186 kb) throughout Volusia
County. LMVY is about putting children on the path to a healthy future
during their earliest months and years by giving parents helpful
information and fostering environments that support healthy choices.
Everyone has a role to play in reducing childhood obesity,
join us in
ensuring a healthy future for our children.
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Private and Public Schools
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Parents, Youth & Children A vegetable garden is great way to engage members of your community or
congregation around healthy, local food. The garden will also serve as an
educational tool to teach children that healthy eating can be fun and taste
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Early Childhood
A toolkit designed to provide child care resources for early childhood obesity
prevention. As a child care provider, you have the powerful opportunity to
instill healthy choices that could help prevent childhood obesity from the
start.
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Page last updated: 03/23/12
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