Federal Partnerships

White House

• Let's Move! - Gives parents the support they need, provide healthier food in schools, help our kids to be more physically active, and make healthy, affordable food available in every part of our country.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• Nutrition.gov - A service of the National Agricultural Library, USDA, nutrition.gov provides easy, online access to government information on food and human nutrition for consumers.
• Eat Smart. Play Hard. - Encourages and teaches children, parents, and caregivers to eat healthy and be physically active every day.
• Food and Nutrition Service - Provides children and low-income people access to food, a healthful diet, and nutrition education.
• MyPyramid.gov - Offers personalized eating plans and interactive tools to help you plan/ assess your food choices based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) - Works to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) - Tracks health conditions and risk behaviors in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam dating back to 1984.
  • Body and Mind (BAM!) - Geared toward kids, BAM! Provides information on food, nutrition, physical activity and your life, body and safety.
• National Bone Health Campaign - Encourages girls to get active and eat more foods with calcium and vitamin D.
• Girlshealth.gov - Promotes healthy, positive behaviors in girls between the ages of 10 and 16.
• Healthfinder - Find information and tools to help you and those you care about stay healthy.
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) - Primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable.
• Healthy People 2010 - Challenges individuals, communities, and professionals, indeed all of us to take specific steps to ensure that good health, as well as long life, are enjoyed by all.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) - Provides global leadership for a research, training, and education program to promote the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases and enhance the health of all individuals so that they can live longer and more fulfilling lives.
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) - Conducts and supports basic and clinical research on many of the most serious diseases affecting public health.
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Anabolic Steroid Abuse - Seeks to encourage young men and women to work with what nature has provided and not by using steroids, thereby exposing themselves to the negative side-effects associated with these drugs.
  • Weight-Control Information Network (WIN) - Provides the general public, health professionals, the media, and Congress with up-to-date, science-based information on obesity, weight control, physical activity, and related nutritional issues.
• Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) - Works to strengthen the disease prevention and health promotion priorities of the Department within the collaborative framework of the HHS agencies.
  • Prevention Communication Research Database (PCRD) - Designed to provide access to research findings that may not be widely known or distributed. Making the research available may provide program planners and health communication specialists with insight into different audiences in relation to key prevention issues such as physical activity, healthy eating, tobacco use, and substance abuse.
• Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) - Comprised of 13 core public health offices and the Commissioned Corps, a uniformed service of more than 6,500 health professionals who serve at HHS and other Federal agencies.
• Office of the Surgeon General (OSG) - Oversees the operations of the 6,500-member Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service and provides support for the Surgeon General in the accomplishment of her other duties.
• Office on Women's Health (OWH) - Provides leadership to promote health equity for women and girls through sex/gender-specific approaches.
  • Quick Health Data Online - Provides State- and county-level data for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and US territories and possessions. The system is organized into eleven main categories, including demographics, mortality, nationality, reproductive health, violence, prevention, disease and mental health.

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of the Interior

• America's Great Outdoors Initiative - Promotes and supports innovative community-level efforts to conserve outdoor spaces and to reconnect Americans to the outdoors.