The FitCity campaign is a community-wide collaboration between programs, funders, corporations, organizations and community groups all dedicated to one cause – making Greater Indianapolis and surrounding counties the healthiest place to live, work and grow.

Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) is developing and implementing action plans to improve Hoosier school children’s eating habits, increase their physical activity and educate administrators, educators, students and parents about the role of sound nutrition and physical activity in academic achievement. AFHK is a nationwide initiative dedicated to improving the health and educational performance of children through better nutrition and physical activity in schools. Sarah Titzer,
www.actionforhealthykids.org.

Coordinated School Health Program concentrates on the well-being of K-12 students with a focus not only on the collaboration of health and physical education, but also components needed to help schools become healthy and productive. These other components address food service, health services, counseling, psychological, and social services, staff wellness, and family and community support. Coordinated School Health Program is a partnership between Indiana Department of Education and Department of Health.
www.state.in.us/isdh/programs/cshp

Learning Well Inc. provides preventive and primary health care services to students in 70 public, charter and private school-based clinics in Marion County with a focus to improve student health, well-being and performance in school.  Funded in large part by grants from The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis, The Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation and Health & Hospital Corp. of Marion County , this nonprofit organization has brokered partnerships between schools and health care systems to offer free medical and health education services to students.
www.learningwellinc.org

Thomas Carr Howe Academy is taking novel approaches to student fitness and nutrition in response to the federally mandated policies for nutrition and fitness required by the Wellness Council before the start of the 2006 school year. Howe Academy recently received a PEP Grant (along with Broad Ripple High School) from the U.S. Department of Education to equip a fitness center with state-of-the-art equipment. This eastside IPS school is focused on teaching lifetime fitness to its students.
www.420.ips.k12.in.us