This action kit for municipal leaders offers a broad range of strategies cities can use to promote physical activity, healthy eating, and access to healthy foods to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. Recommendations in the action kit focus on forging partnerships with schools, making the most of out-of-school time, promoting access to nutritious foods, utilizing parks and recreation, and reshaping the physical environment. In addition, the kit contains numerous city examples, facts, and additional resources. (Headquartered in Washington DC, the National League of Cities is an organization of 1,600 cities and towns in the U.S.)

This action kit highlights steps city officials can take to help young people who are not connected to school, work, or caring adults. The kit explains why municipal leaders should focus on the needs of disconnected youth, frames the problem and key issues, offers suggestions for getting started, and recommends some steps that cities can take to (a) promote educational achievement, (b) develop stronger workforce connections, (c) support youth in transition from the foster care and juvenile justice systems, and (d) build a citywide system of support. Also see other municipal guides on this page. (Headquartered in Washington DC, the National League of Cities is an organization of 1,600 cities ...

This guide shows how city leaders nationwide have gotten community institutions to work together to improve after-school, summer and other out-of-school time (OST) programming.  Created with Wallace Foundation support, the guide describes three strategies municipal leaders have used successfully: (a) involving many organizations and agencies in the OST effort; (b) keeping after-school on the public agenda; and (c) heading the development of shared vision for after-school and other out-of-school time opportunities.  (The National League of Cities is an organization of all State Municipal Leagues and more than 1,600 cities and towns of all sizes. This guide was developed with support ...