Posts Tagged "Healthy U"
Rockaway Twp. Kids Learning Ways to Become a Healthy U
West Morris YMCA partners with school for games, activities By Michael Daigle, The Daily Record in NJ ROCKAWAY TWP. –There is a simple reason the West Morris Area YMCA is a partner in the Healthy U after-school program at the Catherine A. Dwyer School, board President Foster Badgley said. “The fat kid,” he said, “never gets picked, always gets picked on.” Healthy U, a partnership between the school, the YMCA and Horizon Foundation for New Jersey, which contributed a $1 million grant to start the program statewide, is designed to see that there are fewer overweight kids to get picked on. The heart of the program is a series of friendly...
Read MoreHealthy U is Going Strong in New Jersey
By Karen Doramus-Burnell, M.Ed., National CATCH Training Director Through a collaboration between the New Jersey YMCA State Alliance and The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey, the “Healthy U” program has introduced the award-winning CATCH curriculum to engage children in noncompetitive games and moderate-to-vigorous exercise at YMCA after-school sites across the state. The project started with a Train the Trainer Academy in the Spring of 2008, and was aimed at targeting 359 YMCA sites across the state of New Jersey. I am pleased to report that evaluations of the program have shown that the overall goals to decrease the prevalence of childhood obesity by 10%...
Read MoreInterview with Shannon Frank School Age Child Care Director Fanwood-Scotch Plains YMCA Scotch Plains, NJ
What prompted you to be an advocate and champion of children’s health? After graduating from the University of Delaware with a degree in Physical Education, I made the decision to work for the YMCA rather than work in a school. I wanted to work for an organization where I could work closely with both the children and parents to provide programming for a healthy lifestyle. The YMCA allows for its program directors to design unique programming to meet the needs of the ever-changing communities it serves. Over the past ten years I have had the opportunity to work at two different YMCAs, working with more than 2000 children and families in very diverse communities,...
Read MoreHealthy U Brings CATCH to Lincoln Schoolin Rutherford, NJ
Loving Their Veggies and Exercise Too by Sara Keegan, South Bergenite Newspaper Rutherford, NJ For parents, nothing is more important than their child’s health. But keeping healthy is more than just going for checkups at the doctor, it’s living a lifestyle that includes healthy behaviors, such as eating habits and being physically active. The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey and the YMCA have joined in a new initiative in New Jersey schools to make sure kids learn healthy practices at an early age. The program is called Healthy U, the first of its kind in the state to both address and correct childhood obesity. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),...
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