New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids
A former RWJF statewide program
From 2009 to 2017, the New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids worked with community partners to achieve more than 300 policy and environmental wins to support healthy eating and physical activity for children statewide.
- 500,000+ residents benefit from Complete Streets Policies adopted in Camden, Newark, New Brunswick, Trenton, and Vineland.
- 40,000 more children receive school breakfast thanks to the Advocates for Children of New Jersey’s Food for Thought Campaign.
- Nearly 200 corner stores or bodegas participate in the New Jersey Healthy Corner Store Initiative to sell and market healthier foods.
- 5,000+ residents a year visit the Greenwood Ave. Farmers Market, launched in 2015—and nearly 2,000 take advantage of the health services.
- 500+ public health professionals, including social workers, educators, dietitians, and community leaders, learn how they can reshape local policies to advance health equity at the annual statewide “Culture of Health” conference.
