(NAME-MCE) Submission: Alliance for a Healthier Generation Selects 20 for Youth Advisory Board

[Daniel Hatcher]

Alliance for a Healthier Generation Selects 20 for Youth Advisory Board
Inaugural Board will help mobilize kids across America to lead healthy
lives


(NEW YORK) July 15, 2008 - Following a nation-wide search, the Alliance
for a Healthier Generation, which is a partnership between the American
Heart Association, and the William J. Clinton Foundation, has selected
20 stellar young people to join its inaugural "Youth Advisory Board."
The kids, who range in ages from 8-16, will work with the Alliance to
create effective approaches for reaching kids and empowering them to
make healthy changes in their lives.
The Board will provide leadership among their peers and craft the right
messages to spread the word about the importance of young people getting
healthy.   Youth Advisory Board members will not only provide feedback
on effective Kids' Movement strategies, but will also generate their own
ideas for making healthy living the norm, not the exception.  The Youth
Advisory Board in July had their first face-to-face meeting in Kansas
City, MO, where they began to discuss and brainstorm "peer-to-peer"
approaches and will continue to meet once a month via social networking
channels.
Hundreds of applications were received from across the nation,
representing a diverse mix of kids and families.  To respond to the
desire of youth across the nation to be a part of this issue, the
Alliance is creating a Kids' Community that will connect hundreds youth
ages 8-17 from across the United States who want to become youth
advocates and leaders for health. The community will serve as an
innovative youth-led movement and will work in conjunction with the
Youth Advisory Board to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity. To
find out more, please write: info at healthiergeneration.org, or visit,
www.HealthierGeneration.org.