How
Agencies are Promoting Health and Wellness -
What’s
Happening Across the State
In
the June 1, 2004 issue of P&R Wired, CPRS asked agencies
to share how they are promoting health and wellness through
their
programs and services. Please share yours by sending an
e-mail to jane@cprs.org and we will regularly promote what
you are doing!
Thanks to San
Leandro and Tulare for being our first “responders!”
San Leandro Recreation and Human Services:
Contact: Carolyn Knudtson, CKnudtson@ci.san-leandro.ca.us
- For
our Summer Camps and Year-round programs we have developed
the following minimum physical activity guidelines
• For 1/2 day programs, a minimum of 45 minutes of active
physical activity (broken into no less than 15 minute segments)
• For full day programs, a minimum of 75 minutes of active
physical activity (broken into no less than 15 minute segments)
During the physical activity time that is the only thing
going on.
- The
only choices made available for snack are healthy choices.
We offer fresh fruit and vegetables;
nuts
and dried fruit; multi grain breads, tortillas and
crackers; low fat, no sugar spreads (hummus, ranch
dressing,
cream
cheese, etc.) Processed, packaged items should contain
10 or less grams of sugar; 5 or less grams (2 or
less trans fats) or less than 30% of total calories
of fat
per serving.
- Each
playground site will serve water. Plenty will be made
available. Each child will have
water bottle
with
their name on it that they can keep at the site
and use all day and extras will be available in case
they
are lost.
- Produced
a four-hour training of the trainers on an 8 week nutrition,
exercise and body image
curriculum that
will be given by the leaders at the sites. We
also provided a two hour ACTIVE games training.
- Staff
has been requested to bring healthy lunches if they
have an all day camp. No fast
food or soda
permitted.
- UC
Extension staff is teaching an hour-long weekly nutrition
lesson (fun and interactive)
at our Middle
School all-day
summer program and our child care all day
summer program.
- A
letter will be sent to all of our summer camp and care
program participants letting
them know
what we are
doing as a department to promote healthy
choices and opportunities for youth.
- The
Fall Activities Guide will reflect health and wellness
on the cover and the
message will
talk about what we are
doing as a department. We've used information
out of the CPRS VIP Action Plan, "Leading
to Promote Health and Wellness".
The program descriptions will include
the benefits
of exercise and promote making healthy
lifestyle
choices.
- We
will be disseminating information regarding nutrition
and physical activity
throughout
the year through our youth,
families and senior programs.
- Internally
staff has chosen to bring in healthy snacks for our
meetings
and
to only
provide healthy
snacks when
we provide food for meetings. When
someone brings in a cake, donuts,
etc. (which
has almost stopped
completely),
they take it to the employee lounge
(which is across an outdoor plaza)
and send
an email that
there
is a treat
in the lounge (which really keeps
people from continually going back to the
table to get
more and pick at
the goodies).
Click
here to
download a slide show presented to staff on healthy lifestyles.
Click
here to download a Word document with healthy lifestyle
facts presented to staff.
City of Tulare
Contact Barry Dugan, bdugan@ci.tulare.ca.us
- We
have incorporated two health programs during our Rollin'
Rec Preschool Program. As parents must attend with
their children during the Rollin' Rec program, we incorporate
parent education covering a variety of health issues.
- We
have a joint effort with Blue Cross to incorporate
into the preschool curriculum a healthy eating component.
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