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July 2011

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Youth-Serving Agencies!

It's not too late to sign up for WFIT's personal empowerment and healthy behaviors training. Prepare your staff to be healthy behaviors role models and physical activists before the school year begins!

 

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WFIT Awarded Grant from Kaiser Permanente Foundation Hospitals for 'PE Fellowship' Program


WFIT recently received a $50,000 grant from Kaiser Permanente Foundation Hospitals, Southern California Region for the WFIT Physical Education (PE) Fellowship Program in partnership with California State University, Los Angeles. The program is designed as a comprehensive approach to addressing the childhood obesity crisis by establishing a PE delivery system for elementary schools and a strong link between the PE provided during school and quality physical activities and nutrition education offered afterschool. 

Fit For SuccessThe PE Fellowship Program will provide a university PE Fellow at three Los Angeles area elementary schools to provide ongoing technical assistance and guidance to the 4th/5th grade teachers and afterschool program staff. With continual guidance and feedback from the Fellows, teachers and staff will increase their confidence and competence in PE and physical activity instructional delivery. Furthermore, the program includes seven physical activity and healthy behaviors professional development sessions to 60 multi-subject teachers and all afterschool program staff at the three schools. Finally, throughout the next year, WFIT will provide four physical activity and nutrition workshops to 350 families during the afterschool program at each school site. 

 

"Our PE Fellowship Program is a multifaceted model that is not only educating local elementary school teachers and afterschool program staff on how to conduct quality physical activities, but is also giving university PE Fellows the opportunity to put their skills to work," said Normandie Nigh, WFIT CEO. "Kaiser Foundation Hospitals' grant is supporting WFIT to do what we do best: provide the necessary training and development to teachers and staff to ensure our kids are active, fit and ready to learn!" 

 

With the support of partners like Kaiser Permanente Foundation Hospitals, the Fit for Success Program will be a replicable model of extremely low-cost, high-impact school reform to increase student health and decrease childhood obesity rates in Central and South Los Angeles communities. Additionally, this model builds on the professional development efforts of the Los Angeles Unified School Districts' PE Advisory Department in ensuring that elementary school students receive quailty PE during school.

Get Ready to Play! 3rd Annual Kevin Sorbo Celebrity Golf Tournament Benefiting WFIT


Be sure to sign up today!  

Email sorbogolf@worldfitforkids.org for tickets and additional information.

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WFIT Students Complete California Governor's Challenge and Stay Physically Active                              

  

 

As part of the Governor's Challenge, an initiative of As part of the Governor's Challenge, an initiative of The California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, over 150 students from Miguel Contreras Learning Complex completed the challenge as part of WFIT's afterschool program at that site. 

 

Governor's Challenge encourages Californians to be physically active 30-60 minutes a day at least 3 days a week and seeks to establish early habits of physical activity in California's youngest citizens. As part of the Challenge, participants are offered a 30 or 90 day membership from 24 Hour Fitness Club as an incentive to stay active and complete the challenge. The Governor's Challenge Competition is an annual contest among K-12 schools in California that encourages students, teachers and parents to be physically active and focus on their health and well-being.

 

Additionally, in recognition of the results from its programming, WFIT was awarded the 2007 Gold Medal from the California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports as the most outstanding nonprofit organization "positively impacting the physical activity, fitness and well-being of California's children and youth."

 

For more information or to see the results from the Governor's Challenge, click here.

 

Don't Miss Out on Getting Active, Fit and Healthy this Summer!


There's still time to sign up for The Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) challenge this summer to create a fun summer project that will keep you and your family active, fit and healthy while school's out. The challenge supports the mission of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition (PCFSN), to engage, educate, and empower all Americans across their lifespan to adopt a healthy lifestyle that includes regular physical activity and good nutrition.

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The goals of the PALA challenge are: 

  • Adults (18 years and older): Be active 30 minutes a day, at least 5 days a week, for 6 out of 8 weeks. As an alternative, count daily activity steps using a pedometer (goal: 8,500 steps a day).
  • Kids and teens (ages 6 - 17 years): Be active  60 minutes a day, at least 5 days a week, for 6 out of 8 weeks. As an alternative, count daily activity steps using a pedometer (girls' goal: 11,000; boys' goal: 13,000).

Sign up for the PALA challenge now to stay active, fit and healthy during the summer! For more information regarding the PALA Challenge, click here.