Welcome to Kentucky Family Policy
This blog is dedicated to examining issues facing the Commonwealth of Kentucky and providing a nonpartisan, family perspective on public policy making. We hope to provide a forum for Kentuckians to review and discuss current legislative actions and the issues such actions are attempting to address. The opinions expressed herein belong solely to the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Kentucky, its affiliates, or its representatives.
What the authors of this blog will contribute:
1) Summarize current state, national, and international research related to topics relevant to current legilative actions.
2) Describe Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service programs and activities currently addressing issues related to legilative actions in the various counties.
3) Provide expert commentaries via podcasts and videocasts on issues relevant to current legilative actions.
Please see "Priority Bills" section on the right for a short list of the most current legislative actions relevant to the family focus of this blog
Practical recommendations for policy-makers to help prevent childhood obesity
- Increasing access to parks and recreation centers
- Improving safety for bicyclists and pedestrians
- Offering healthier foods in schools
- Attracting grocery stores that provide healthy, affordable foods to lower-income communities
Childhood obesity is a serious problem facing our Kentucky counties and the entire U.S. Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has created the Action Strategies Toolkit to provide guidance to policy-makers. The toolkit offers practical examples, including increasing access to parks and recreation centers, improving safety for bicyclists and pedestrians, offering healthier foods in schools, and attracting grocery stores that provide healthy, affordable foods to lower-income communities.
Download full toolkit and executive summary at
http://www.rwjf.org/childhoodobesity/product.jsp?id=42514
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