Building Healthy Communities is a K-8 service-learning program designed to promote healthy behaviors and combat childhood obesity. BHC engages and empowers youth participating in school-based after-school programs to develop service-learning projects that positively impact community health. As part of this program, students share their projects and experiences as agents of positive change and celebrate their commitment to healthy communities and their power to make a difference.

This initiative is funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Learn and Serve America and run in partnership with The After-School Corporation (TASC). For more information about this program, please contact Alex Buckley at alex@childrenforchildren.org.



CFC Club

CFC Club is a service-learning program for 3rd - 6th graders that encourages students to create meaningful service projects to address unmet community needs. Through CFC Club, students explore core values of community, leadership, service, responsibility and citizenship, and utilize community mapping to determine key community assets and needs. As part of the service project planning process, students use CFC’s IGNITE model to identify a project that addresses a community need, gather the project supplies, network with community members and organizations to create partnerships, inform other students, parents, community members and the media about their project, use teamwork to work together to accomplish the project goal and encourage all students to remain positive throughout the planning process. After planning the service project, students execute and reflect on their project, demonstrate project accomplishments and explore options for sustainability.

This proven model and comprehensive approach to service-learning recognizes youth as essential contributors to their communities and focuses on forging long-term, supportive child-adult and community partnerships to ensure the healthy development of the child.
For more information about this program, please contact Carline Bennett at carline@childrenforchildren.org.



Grow Involved! Holiday Service-Learning Kit

Children for Children’s Grow Involved! Holiday Service-Learning Kit features easy-to-implement lesson plans for student-led service projects that encourage learning and volunteering during twenty-five school closing days throughout the year.

This initiative is funded by the Department of Youth and Community Development. For more information about this program, please contact Carline Bennett at carline@childrenforchildren.org.