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Stephanie Vaughn is Marketing Manager for Voices for Healthy Kids, a joint initiative of the American Heart Association and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation working to help all children achieve a healthy weight.
Twitter: @Voices4HK
Stephanie Vaughn
Marketing Manager at Voices for Healthy Kids
Blog Post List
Creating the Navajo Nation’s Future Healthy Eating Leaders
March 16, 2017The Navajo Nation Preparatory School in Farmington, New Mexico prides itself on the fact that it is the only Navajo-sanctioned, college-preparatory school for Native Americans - a school that serves some of the best and brightest students from the Navajo Nation. Students of the school stay in dorms, necessitated by the fact that the Navajo Nation covers more than 27 thousand square miles and many of the students live hours away from the school. But that necessity has also become an opportunity to work with students to develop an appreciation of and interest in whole health, which works to support the development needs of tribes.
Creating Healthy Eating Opportunities for the Nation’s Native American Populations
January 27, 2017The Lower Sioux Community is working increase access to healthier and more traditional foods in order to help reduce some of the diet-related health impacts many tribal members are experiencing.
Of Angels and Healthy, Affordable Foods in Minnesota
August 22, 2016In this era of political disagreement, it’s unusual to see political parties put aside their differences, join hands and work together for the greater good. But that’s exactly what happened recently in Minnesota around efforts to improve and increase access to healthy and affordable food. Minnesota is one of the lowest ranked states in terms of access to healthy and affordable foods, according to an April 2016 report prepared by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Wilder Research. Hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans currently live in areas where they have limited or no easy access to...