Who We Are – Healthy Kids Collaborative

Our Mission

Connecting health champions to create a Dane County where every child from every neighborhood has the opportunity to be healthy.

With over 150 partners, we work at the state, county, city and grassroots level through advocacy,
community involvement, continuous learning and evaluation in service to the
children and families of Dane County.

Guiding Principles

Our guiding principles are tools we will use as we recognize that how we work is just as (if not more) important as what we accomplish. These will be used alongside the scope and vision provided to us by the Leadership Council, our community and our funders to keep projects focused and moving towards our shared goals including making our county the healthiest for children and families around healthy food and physical activity environments.

Serve

The Healthy Kids Collaborative is in service to children and families of Dane County. We will:

Create systems to gather their feedback on our work
Develop citizen advocates to raise the voice of our work to a higher level

Learn

We engage in shared and continuous learning and evaluation by:

Continually evaluating our programs, projects and process
Collecting and sharing data for the work in which we engage
Fostering innovation, allowing for mistakes and adapting to improve our work
Committing to sharing our lessons with partners and the community

Advocate

We create and advocate for policy, system and environmental changes to the physical activityand nutrition environments by:

Providing forums to convene diverse groups to work together
Offering our partners professional development, technical assistance and mentorship
Seeking and developing new partnerships to continue sustainable and meaningful work

Engage

Our strategies are grounded in and guided by community engagement:

Ensuring that diverse stakeholders are involved at all levels of our Collaborative
Harnessing collective voice to broaden reach and create sustainability of our work
Developing partnerships to facilitate work in high need communities with the aim toreduce disparities in our community