Children, Youth & Families

Digging In (Part I & Part II) Event Materials
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April, 2024
Digging In (Part II) Webinar Recording >> Part II Description: Film Screening & Discussion Grab your lunch and join PhilMO for the virtual lunchtime screening & discussion of the documentary Digging In . This film by KC filmmakers Nathan Johnson and Jay W. Austin is designed to help funders understand concentration and consolidation, land access, and climate change and explore the connection these issues have to their work and the work of their grantees. Filmed across the United States, the Missouri communities of Auxvasse, Kansas City, and Mexico are specifically featured. The...
Public Investment in Early Childhood Education Program Event Materials
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December, 2022
Through this program, funders received: An update on the first year of the Missouri Office of Childhood and its Director, Dr. Pam Thomas via virtual webinar recording. An update on the establishment of the Gateway Early Childhood Alliance and its Director, Katie Rahn. A deeper understanding of existing public funds to support early childhood providers, barriers to accessing those funds, and the role philanthropy can play in closing gaps. An opportunity to share their own collaborative or individual funding efforts in the early child space.
Reframing Childhood Obesity: Cultural Insights on Nutrition, Weight, and Food Systems
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October, 2022
Vanderbilt University Cultural Context of Health & Wellbeing Initiative, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released a new report that focuses on three key areas in which insights and examples from abroad can improve USA health policy around childhood obesity. The report's goal is to create a mutual understanding that: food is more than nutrition, health is more than weight, and diet is more than individual choice. The report presents the most effective and sustainable efforts to improve child nutrition while taking into account cultural contexts and colonial legacies in...
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