COAM in Action

National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month has been widely recognized across the country. President Obama and the U.S. Congress both issued proclamations declaring September 2010 to recognize the first-ever National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, and the momentum hasn’t stopped yet. Organizations nationwide brought the issue home by planning educational events for children and families.

Organizations Making a Difference

100 Citizens: Role Models for the Future
100 Citizens is a program of the City of San Fernando Partnership for Healthy Families that believes ending childhood obesity begins with the family. Families receive advice and guidance to about beginning exercise programs. The strategy is to drive public health awareness and implementation at public parks through participation in programs delivered by students and professionals trained in kinesiology.

Project ACES
Project ACES (All Children Exercise Simultaneously), is signature program of the Youth Fitness Coalition, Inc., created by physical education teacher Len Saunders in 1989 as a method of motivating children to exercise.

"For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time,"

First Lady Michelle Obama