Voices for Healthy Kids has developed a set of materials that can be used to support passage of policies to improve the nutritional quality of restaurant kids meals. So far, kids meals policies have been passed in three California localities, the latest in Davis, and introduced in a number of states and cities. Let us know if you are interested exploring the possibility of a policy in your state or locality. Best, ------ Tony Ellis Nutrition Policy Associate Center for Science in the Public Interest Tel: 202 777 8329 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> From: Jill Birnbaum Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 2:09 PM Subject: Voices for Healthy Kids "Nutritional Standards for Restaurant Meals Sold to Kids" Toolkit Available Greetings: On behalf of the Voices for Healthy Kids team, we are excited to share with you the toolkit on strategies that can improve the nutritional quality of restaurant children's meals entitled "Serving Kids Better." In this toolkit, you will find tactics to promote policies that improve the nutritional quality of restaurant kids' meals. To receive access to the toolkit, click here<https://volunteer.heart.org/apps/vfhk/Pages/VFHK-Toolkit-Form.aspx>. This toolkit is a compilation of facts, sample materials, and guidance on how to build, engage, and mobilize a social change movement in your state or community on this critical issue. The toolkit is wrapped together by a unique theme designed to maximize interest and action to create and support a healthy learning environment for kids. Together with a collection of parallel toolkits on other proven social change strategies to help kids live more active, healthful lives, we want to help focus and energize advocates around the country. This toolkit is for you to use and share. Just as important, we want to hear back from you. We consider our toolkits to be dynamic documents. We want to update, improve, and add to them based on the insights and lessons in the field. Please share back with us your comments<https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TFRL9H2> for the next version. Voices for Healthy Kids is a collaboration between the American Heart Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Together with a diverse array of partners, we are working to engage, organize and mobilize advocates to improve the health of their communities and reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. There are now more than one-in- three children and teens in the U.S. who are overweight or obese. Voices for Healthy Kids is focused on advocating for policy and social change at the community, state, and federal levels in order to help young people eat healthier foods and be more active. Find out more at www.voicesforhealthykids.org. If you want to learn more about Voices for Healthy Kids, we have many opportunities to share resources, to get involved in advocacy efforts at the state and local level as well as join us in support of reversing youth obesity through policy and advocacy efforts. For more information, please email us at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. We look forward to hearing from you. Jill Birnbaum, JD Vice President, State Advocacy & Public Health Executive Director, Voices for Healthy Kids 7272 Greenville Avenue I Dallas, Texas 75231 P 612-202-1980 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | www.voicesforhealthykids.org<http://www.voicesforhealthykids.org/> the health of our kids is why