Research Paper On Way To Go Program

As adults, we spend a lot of time away from our family and friends due to work or other priorities in our life. We learn to adapt and keep going through these times of being away and this can make us a greater person. Summer sleep-away camp is much like a longer version of a sleepover and can be a great head start for children who may not be away from their family and friends much. This leads me to feel that summer sleep-away camps have positive effects on children and should even be considered important to the development of a child.

SJC Safe Kids San Joaquin will be assisting Wilhemina Henry Elementary School in Stockton, CA to hold an International Walk to School Day event in October. This event is aimed to bring together students, teachers, the principal, parents, and other stakeholders in community together to encourage pedestrian safety and physical activity among students. This school was selected since 92.5 percent of students receive free and reduced price lunch. Additionally, 85.5 percent of the students have Hispanic and Latino backgrounds. They would benefit from receiving materials in other languages. For the Walk to School Day celebration, we will be promoting a remote drop off location for students to utilize

“The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake” a quote made by the First Lady, Michelle Obama, as she launches her comprehensive initiative to change the way children think about nutrition and physical fitness (“Learn the Facts,” 2010). Three decades ago, children lived active lives that kept them healthier. They walked to and from school, ate home cooked, reasonable portion meals with vegetables and played outdoors most of the time. Today, children ride the bus instead of walk, eat more fast food and snacks throughout the day because parents are busier, and watch more television or play video games rather than be active outside with peers (“Learn the Facts,” 2010). Young children are becoming overweight and obese along with being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes more frequently. They are making poor dietary choices, inadequate physical activity, and spending too much screen time all contributing to the obesity crisis. One of the effective solutions to reversing the trend of childhood obesity is to provide safe, affordable and accessible after-school health and physical fitness educational programs for all school ages across the nation.

* “Promote safe places for physical activity and provide lower income families with financial help to be able to afford after school activities.”(State of Obesity, 2014)

In Alaska, there are villages that do not have gyms that are in good condition and sometimes, it is hard to access. According to Alaska Department of Health & Social Services, 20.9% for all Alaska adolescents and 21.1% for Alaska Native adolescents were engaging in sixty minutes of physical activity every day of the week. The state target is 23.0% and the male adolescents have already exceeded that goal, but beginning in 2011 where the percentage was 28.0%, there seems to be a downward trend because in 2015, there were only 24.7%. In the plan from Healthy Alaskans 2020, speaking with schools will assist students in getting more physical activity time, for example, longer

Team BLAZE (Beginning Life with AmaZing Examples) is a project designed to decrease childhood obesity in low income school districts. Team BLAZE is a school based program that incorporates healthy nutritional options along with daily physical activities within a safe learning environment to low income regions in America. The program initially focuses on children ages 5-17 in the rural Mississippi Delta, where obesity rates “far exceed those of the state and nation” (Gamble et al., 2012, p 478). Team BLAZE is modeled after Save the Children’s CHANGE (Creating Healthy, Active and Nurturing Growing-Up Environments) study, a 2-year (2007-2009) randomized, controlled, community and school-based intervention to prevent unhealthy weight gain among rural school aged children (Save the Children, 2008). The CHANGE study used an innovative, multicomponent community-based intervention in rural America to improve the diets of children and proved to be successful in lowering rates of obesity at the studied locations (Save the Children, 2008). Likewise, Team BLAZE uses a multidirectional approach by targeting changes in school nutrition,

When you think of summer camp, you think of trips and being active all day. You recall arts and craft and camp songs and fun all the times. The low funding for the summer camp has effect the overall summer camp dream. In the year of 2010, the students had a field trip 2 times a week; however, as of summer 2015 the students went on four outside trips. Summer camp is about being outside and learning new things through field trip experiences. How can they have a rich and fulling summer with four trips? They already spent 180 days in a class while do they have to be in one during the summer also. This summer they are going on 10 trips. Four of the trips are places other than different Brightside centers, and the other six are at Brightside centers. We have to do better to improve the summer camp experiences for our students; funding should not interfere with their fun, but it

Today the YMCA is as diverse and strong as it has ever been. With a focus on “Activating America,” addressing issues of childhood obesity and lifestyle-related chronic diseases in adults, the YMCA is prioritizing efforts to support its members as they focus on living healthy lifestyles. The YMCA today may not be able to be all things to all people, but it does have something for everyone.” The YMCA serves all population in different ways. From morning care, and even afternoon care that involves School aged adolescents arriving in the morning, where until the bus comes to take the young adolescence to their different schools, they get their morning perk while interacting with other school care kids to start their day off energetic, and install the students to be sharp,precise, and correct as they go throughout the day. Afternoon care

Clicking refresh for the fiftieth time on the MTA Trip planner website, making it my own form of a panic button. Though it seems, it has the opposite effect. The NYU experience has been anxiety inducing. Everything was new and unknown, but everything was new and unknown. On one hand, I was ready for the new opportunities but, I wanted the comfort of my small high school. Balance during a time of transition was all I was looking for and it was hard to find.

Fit Kids Healthy Kids, teaches kids about physical literacy and the fundamental skills that will allow a kid to thrive on sports. It seeks to inform children and adult about the basic movements in sports. This will allow them be confident when participating in physical activity. Fit Kids Healthy Kids (FKHK) uses a holistic approach to teach kids about the various skills and have programs that can help to implement the program. Although FKHK can teach the leaders on how to run their programs, they also offer some sections where FKHK can come to your place and run their program. They have four different programs that they offer for kids and soon top of that, they also provide training for leaders and people who want to run a similar program. With the variety of different programs they offer, there is always a variety of options to choose from. People can first attend a free play for kids, in which FKHK will run and supervise the entire process. If people are satisfied with their services, they can work with different organizations and do a drop in program, ranging from 45 minutes to 90 minutes. If the drop in sections is a success, they can work with the organizations and start working on long term goals of 8-12 weeks. Fit Kids Healthy Kids will work with the organizations staff members to ensure that in the future they can lead these programs and not have to rely entirely on FKHK staff to run these programs. At the end of the 8-12 week program, the organization will then

This is a Community Teaching Plan Work Proposal group project for the city of San Diego, and our target community is children in elementary school. We have chosen primary health promotion/prevention and will address Childhood Obesity, which falls under the category of Nutrition and Weight Status in Healthy People 2020.

Nutrition and weight status is a vitally important issue as obesity is on the rise in the United States. One third of children in this country ages 2-19 are either overweight or obese and this potentially sets them up to develop diabetes and other comorbidities during their lifetime (U.S. Task Force, 2010). It is important to promote health by way of consumption of healthy foods, getting adequate exercise and maintaining a healthy body weight and body image. The Let’s Move initiative, founded by First Lady Michelle Obama, approaches the obesity epidemic at a grassroots level and encourages children to eat healthy, get active and take actions towards a healthy lifestyle ("Let’s Move," n.d.).

Waycross Middle School has many funny activities. One I like the most is Clubs. We have Clubs every Friday if you have all your work done and no missing work. We have many activities for you to pick like Walk and Talk, Outdoor Sports, or Basketball. Everyone looks fronted to Clubs on Friday because you get to hang with your friends and have fun. Also you may have study hall if you don’t complete all your works then you do not get to walk or play with

Camp Happy Valley is a summer day camp which is located in London, Ontario. It formed in 1965, and as a not-for-profit organization. Camp Happy Valley engages in create a positive and safe atmosphere for children to increase their experience. Sue Johnson is the director of this camp and work for hiring the super staff team. Adam Cameron is the programmer for Happy Valley. The process of hiring and training staff was low efficiency, and the camp’s morale was depressed. Camp Happy Valley needs to make some decisions as soon as possible to improve this situation.

They knew exactly what the BMI for every child should be and be able to determine if they are overweight or obese for their age and height. The BMI rate of everyone was taken at the beginning of every school year. The coordinators told all the children about the walking program since the beginning of the school year (Zuraikat 2010). Children weren’t forced to participate but they were encouraged to do so in order to change their lifestyles (Zuraikat 2010). What participating children had to do in order to be part of the walking program was walk outside a certain distance and when it rained they had to walk inside in the gym in order to continue to be part of it, the goal for everyone was to reach five to ten miles each semester (Zuraikat 2010). The walking program was great because teachers were responsible to supervise all the participating children and they gave them a card for every lap they finished (Zuraikat 2010). Everyone that met the goal received a gift card and that became the motivation to children because then they could get free objects from different places (Zuraikat 2010).