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Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures helps keep Boston healthy
A recent study by NerdWallet that ranked Boston as the healthiest metro area in the U.S. featured Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures as an example of health-promoting programming in the city. Read more…
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Northeastern University Honored by ABCD Head Start
ABCD Head Start honored Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun and Robert Gittens, the university’s vice president for public affairs, with awards at its annual Parent Recognition Breakfast. The event was held on May 17, 2013 on the Northeastern University campus. President Aoun and Gittens were recognized for their ongoing support for Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures and the contributions that Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures has made to the work of ABCD Head Start. Read more…
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Using Technology at Open Gym to Encourage Physical Activity
Northeastern University Professor Andrea Parker discusses her ideas for innovative uses of technology to encourage physical activity through the Open Gym program. Read more…
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Health Benefits of Head Start
Cathy Wirth, Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures Project Manager, speaks about the health benefits of Head Start. See video here…
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Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures featured in Northeastern University Service-Learning Newsletter
The partnership between Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures and Northeastern’s University’s Service-Learning program was featured in the May 2012 Service-Learning newsletter. Read more…
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Northeastern University student speaks about his experience with Open Gym
John Sirisuth, a Northeastern University student that volunteered at Open Gym through Northeastern’s Service-Learning program, spoke about his experience at an event on April 19, 2012. Read more…
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Mayor Menino visits Open Gym
On Saturday December 10, 2011, Mayor Menino visited Open Gym as part of the Official Launch of the BCYF Recreation Center at Madison Park. Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures partners Bob Gittens of Northeastern University and Dr. Shari Nethersole of Children’s Hospital Boston joined Mayor Menino in speaking about the importance of the Recreation Center at Madison Park and the programming like Open Gym that takes place there. Several families were also honored by Mayor Menino for their dedicated participation in Open Gym.
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Open Gym featured in the Bay State Banner
Kendra Graves, a parent that attends the Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures’ Open Gym program, wrote about the impact of Open Gym in an article for the Bay State Banner. Read more…
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Changing the Way We Live, Dr. Jessica Hoffman
Dr. Jessica Hoffman, Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures Co-Principal Investigator, speaks to the Northeastern Voice about childhood obesity. Read more…
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Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures honored at Fenway Park
Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures children, caregivers, families and partners were honored during a special Boston Red Sox pre-game ceremony on Friday July 10, 2009. Read more…
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Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures, Dr. Carmen Sceppa and Dr. Shari Nethersole
Northeastern University, the Boston Red Sox and Children’s Hospital Boston created the “Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures” program. WBZ’s Yadires Nova-Salcedo talks about this with Dr. Carmen Sceppa from Northeastern University and Dr. Shari Nethersole from Children’s Hospital Boston. Read more…
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Play’s the Thing
Open Gym is sponsored by Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures, a pilot program that aims to educate preschoolers’ parents and caregivers about the importance of healthy eating and physical activity. The initiative—a partnership among Northeastern, the Boston Red Sox and Children’s Hospital Boston—serves children enrolled in Head Start programs in the Lower Roxbury, Mission Hill, Fenway and South End communities. Read more….
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Boston Battles Childhood Obesity Increase
Among 4-year-olds, one in five is considered obese. But the city of Boston wants to change that statistic. As NewsCenter 5′s Liz Brunner reported Wednesday, there’s a city new program to prevent childhood obesity. Read more….
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Children’s Hospital, Northeastern and the Red Sox launch program to prevent childhood obesity
Children’s Hospital Boston teams up with Northeastern U and the Red Sox to launch program to prevent childhood obesity. Read more…
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Pilot Program Launched to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino today joined Northeastern University President Joseph Aoun, Boston Red Sox President and CEO Larry Lucchino, and James Mandell, MD, CEO of Children’s Hospital Boston, to announce the launch of Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures (HKHF), a community-based early childhood pilot initiative aimed at preventing childhood obesity. The purpose of the program is to engage early child care providers and caregivers to promote healthy eating and increased physical activity among pre-school age children living in the Fenway, Mission Hill, South End, Jamaica Plain and Lower Roxbury communities of Boston. Read more…
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Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures Launch
Boston preschoolers and their caregivers in four city neighborhoods will learn to eat healthier, thanks to a collaborative new educational pilot program, Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures. Read more…
