Mobilizing Community Development on Behalf of Children [BuildHealthyPlaces.org]

Samantha Sangenito 2/8/164:00 AM

At the Booth Memorial Child Development Center in Oakland, California, kids bike across a new patio or sit cross-legged on a floor that no longer aggravates their allergies or asthma. Those improvements were funded in part by $70,000 in grants from the Low Income Investment Fund, a national community development finance institution. In neighborhoods around the country, similar groups help plan, fund, and build early-education centers like Booth Memorial, where children learn, grow, and get ready for kindergarten and beyond.

But how else does the community development field help children develop into healthy adults? That’s what Katie Wehr, program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is most curious about.

[For more of this story, written by Kathleen Constanza, go to http://www.buildhealthyplaces....-behalf-of-children/]

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