Steve Culbertson, YSA’s president and CEO, blogged about the UnitedHealth HEROES Service-Learning Grants on Serve.gov. This grant initiative, entering its third year and funded by UnitedHealth Group, has resulted in fantastic youth-led initiatives addressing childhood obesity.
Young HEROES Promote Healthy Living
By Steve Culbertson
Youth Service America and UnitedHealth Group are tackling childhood obesity from a new direction: by asking children and youth across America to take action and address this critical issue. The UnitedHealth HEROES Service-Learning Grants, launched two years ago to support youth-led programs, have supported the initiatives of more than 360 schools and community organizations. Asking young people to have a meaningful impact on communities by implementing innovative ideas is an important part of service-learning, a teaching and learning strategy that makes connections between community service and curriculum.
To read the complete blog post, visit http://www.serve.gov/stories_detail.asp?tbl_servestories_id=421
