Keystone Kids Go is a collaborative workgroup actively working to improve the health of Pennsylvania’s children, staff, and families within the early childhood education community through collaboration, resource development, and systems change. 
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​Featured Resources

Member Spotlight!
Keystone Kids Go members share their favorite Pennsylvania spots to visit.

Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Story Map
The CACFP Participation in Pennsylvania Map examines current CACFP participation in the state in the context of food access and poverty.
References and Resources for Expanding Nature-Based Learning in Early Childhood Education Settings
Explore a wealth of resources, including a recorded webinar, to ignite your brainstorming about ways nature-based play can enhance children's learning. 

Mission
Through individual and collective action, Keystone Kids Go is dedicated to collaboration, resource development, and the advancement of systems change, leading to policies and practices that create environments that promote and support equitable access to knowledge, resources and affordable care for children, staff, and families within Pennsylvania’s early childhood education community, so that they can achieve and maintain their optimal health.

Vision
All children, staff, and families within Pennsylvania’s early childhood education community are able to achieve and maintain their optimal health* through equitable access to knowledge, resources and affordable care.
*We define health as complete physical, mental, emotional, environmental and social health.

​Values
​*Engage with integrity, trust and mutual respect
*Seek and respect the diverse values, perspectives and contributions of all members
*Listen to, learn from, and co-create solutions with children, staff, and families within the early childhood education community
*Consider ways in which social determinants of health contribute to disparities and inequities
*Commit to identifying and addressing implicit bias within personal and professional practice and dismantling systemic racism
​*Invest in promoting health through early childhood and family support settings
*Collaborate to enhance and sustain agency-specific programming through partnerships and resource sharing
Keystone Kids Go is supported and enhanced by the Pennsylvania Departments of Health, Education, and Human Services in partnership with:

Adagio Health
Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Penn State University
Early Learning Resource Centers (ELRCs)
First Up
National Black Child Development Institute (Philadelphia Affiliate Chapter)
Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL)
​Office of Commonwealth Libraries
Penn State Better Kid Care
Pennsylvania Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics Early Childhood Education Linkage System (PA AAP ECELS)
Pennsylvania Department of Education, Division of Food and Nutrition
Pennsylvania Department of Health, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity
Pennsylvania Head Start Association (PHSA)
Pennsylvania Migrant Education Program
Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Network (PANEN)
Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC)
The Food Trust
The Pennsylvania Key
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Division of Community Health
Woman, Infants, and Children (WIC)

To learn more about Keystone Kids Go workgroup and activities, contact Rose Gioia-Fine at 724.986.6026 or rgioia.fine@tiu11.org.
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