Celebrating the 2024 Healthy Apple Award Winners 

By Raegan Sales | Healthy Apple Program Lead, Children’s Council of San Francisco 

Children’s Council of San Francisco’s Healthy Apple Program is excited to announce the 2024 Healthy Apple Award recipients. On March 15, 2025, we hosted 50 program participants at Farming Hope for our first in-person awards luncheon since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Click here to view our photo album from this beautiful day.

Healthy Apple recognized 45 child care sites with 69 awards for excellence in child care nutrition and physical activity practices! Even more impactful, these awards reflect healthy practices in place at early education sites serving 625 children. 

All Healthy Apple Award recipients demonstrate a commitment to nutrition and physical activity in child care settings across the city. The 32 gold awards represent child care programs meeting or exceeding every nutrition and/or physical activity best practice promoted by the Healthy Apple Program. We are excited to see a very high proportion of awardees receive gold awards this year, which is a testament to their commitment to Healthy Apple over the years and continuous improvement at their sites as they have moved up in award levels. 

Congratulations to this year’s awardees! 

Healthy Apple works! 

Healthy Apple uses research-based best practices to coach educators through the process of meal planning, setting up their environment and infusing physical activity and nutrition awareness into their curriculum, policies and engagement with families.   

A peer-reviewed study found that “integration of the Healthy Apple Program with existing public health nursing services was associated with significantly more children exposed to best practices and improvement in child BMI change. The results warrant continued integration of Healthy Apple into local public health infrastructure.” 

Are you a child care educator who wants to be recognized with a Healthy Apple Award in 2025? Click here to get started today. 

Presented/announced at Farming Hope on March 15, 2024. 

Thanks to Priti Rane (SFDPH) and Ingrid Mezquita (SFDEC) for their support of Healthy Apple and our Healthy Apple Awards! 

Photos by Julio Cesar Martinez Photography