Website
http://jumpinforhealthykids.org/
Primary Contact
Ron Gifford
Chief Executive Officer
Contact via email
Mission statement
Jump IN for Healthy Kids (“Jump IN”) is a nonprofit leading a community-wide effort to create healthy places, neighborhoods and communities where children and their families have real opportunities to make healthy choices about eating and being physically active.
Actions
Actions are activities derived from the Plan 2020 planning process that a partner has committed to implement.
Jump IN is working on the following actions:
Strategy
Decrease the prevalence of childhood obesity, increase the number of kids at a healthy weight, and improve the health of Central Indiana communities.
Action
Implement Jump IN Pledge for Healthy Kids in at least 80% of public schools, licensed or registered child care centers, and large to mid-size employers (with more than 100 employees) located in the Indianapolis metropolitan area
Start Date:
September 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
0%
Strategy
Decrease the prevalence of childhood obesity, increase the number of kids at a healthy weight, and improve the health of Central Indiana communities.
Action
Make the Healthy Worksites, Healthy Kids peer-to-peer employer wellness coaching program available to small and mid-size employers in Central Indiana
Start Date:
July 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
50%
Coaching materials have been developed and a six-month pilot program is underway to evaluate and validate the coaching program.
Strategy
Decrease the prevalence of childhood obesity, increase the number of kids at a healthy weight, and improve the health of Central Indiana communities.
Action
Make a training and resource program on healthy habits, including nutrition and physical activity policies, available to child care providers and early care and education centers
Start Date:
October 1, 2015
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
75%
In 2015-16, 53 child care centers serving more than 5,000 children received eight months of training on nutrition and physical activity best practices. A Ball State University professor conducted a formal evaluation of the effectiveness of the training. Fifty-six (56) additional centers (including licensed child care homes) serving about 2,400 children are being trained in 2016-17.
Strategy
Decrease the prevalence of childhood obesity, increase the number of kids at a healthy weight, and improve the health of Central Indiana communities.
Action
Convene and support “community demonstration projects” in defined communities of interest that bring together all stakeholders in those neighborhoods to address systemic health issues around food access and the built environment (e.g. sidewalks, playgrounds, parks and access to safe places to play)
Start Date:
March 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
50%
The first demonstration project was launched in Greater Lawrence/Far Eastside in 2016. That community was chosen to be one of 50 communities across the country to participate in a national Healthiest Cities Challenge, a two-year competition to improve health status with a $250,000 grand prize for the winning community.
Strategy
Decrease the prevalence of childhood obesity, increase the number of kids at a healthy weight, and improve the health of Central Indiana communities.
Action
Partner with Great Places 2020 neighborhoods as a co-investor to promote the creation of Healthy Places in child care centers, schools and employers in those neighborhoods
Start Date:
May 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
0%
Strategy
Decrease the prevalence of childhood obesity, increase the number of kids at a healthy weight, and improve the health of Central Indiana communities.
Action
Participate with Reconnecting to Our Waterways (ROW) to promote inclusion of physical activity and health-related policies in the ROW strategies
Start Date:
September 1, 2015
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
50%
Ron Gifford, CEO of Jump IN, serves on the ROW Steering Committee and co-chairs the Well-Being Committee.
Strategy
Decrease the prevalence of childhood obesity, increase the number of kids at a healthy weight, and improve the health of Central Indiana communities.
Action
Promote public awareness and education about healthy habits using the “5-2-1-0” campaign (eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables; limit screen time to 2 hours or less; be physically active at least 1 hour a day; have 0 sugary beverages and drink lots of water)
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
50%
Jump IN launched a Resource Hub on its website in 2016 that features dozens of resources promoting “5-2-1-0,” including Spanish-language materials. The 5-2-1-0 program has also been embedded in youth and student training programs offered by third parties to schools. See www.jumpinforhealthykids.org/resources.
Strategy
Decrease the prevalence of childhood obesity, increase the number of kids at a healthy weight, and improve the health of Central Indiana communities.
Action
Assist clinicians and health care providers in counseling family decisions about nutrition and physical activity for their children through: 1) continuing education workshops; 2) evidence-based, expert-authored resource kits; and 3) connections to community resources and programs that can be shared with patients
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
50%
Jump IN organized and presented an innovative continuing medical education workshop in September, 2016 in partnership with pediatricians and family practice doctors from the five major health care systems in Indianapolis. This group is working on a resource kit for use in clinical offices.
Strategy
Decrease the prevalence of childhood obesity, increase the number of kids at a healthy weight, and improve the health of Central Indiana communities.
Action
Pursue public policy initiatives at the state and local level to promote the creation of healthy environments and healthy behaviors
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
25%
Jump IN has signed on as a partner in the coalition promoting Healthy Food Financing Legislation. We have also provided educational resources to our members of Congress relative to the value of continuing the federal meal guidelines for school lunches.