ABCD's History

In 1993, the Advocates for Better Children's Diets (ABCD) began as a coalition of 37 leading health and consumer organizations, organized to improve the nutrition quality of the National School Lunch and Breakfast Program in thousands of schools nationwide. A steering committee of six participating groups directed the major activities of the coalition. Several of the steering committee members suggested forming a non-profit groups to expand the activities designed to improve the dietary and physical activity habits of children. We received the official non-profit status in June 1997.

ABCD's Mission and Goals

ABCD's mission is to promote health and well-being of children by providing educational opportunities, health and nutrition guidance and information as well as representation in legislative decision making.

Our goals are to:

• Develop and implement creative and effective health promotion interventions
• Assure that students, teachers, parents, coaches, school administrators, school food service personnel, and community leaders receive adequate nutrition, physical activity and health information
• Partner with leading community organizations who have a similar mission in promoting health lifestyles for children
• Identify community resources to fund child education activities on nutrition, physical activity, and life coping skills
• Develop, publish, and promote guidance materials for communities to promote children's good nutrition and health
• Track dietary and physical activity practices to evaluate the success of interventions.

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