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Allied Health Associates is dedicated to keeping you active.
If you work in an office setting you require a regular exercise program to maintain or improve your overall muscle tone. The Solution is to provide you with exercises and techniques that are simple to perform, target muscles that potentially give you discomfort, can be used when you need them, fit easily into your busy schedule, and requires equipment that is readily available to you at the office or at home.
As The Office Coach I provide quality prevention information for busy individuals who must include regular exercise while juggling the responsibilities of home and work life.
As a physical therapist I provide rehabilitative healthcare to thousands of clients. Three benefits are obtained by making therapeutic exercise part of their treatment plan: They strengthen weak areas that were injured through consistent, progressive activity. They reduce re-injury by maintaining the tone of previously affected muscles. After recovery they can start or return to recreational activities that include toning, cardiovascular and weight-loss goals.
Our mission at BeFittr is enabling online collaborative fitness. We are focusing our philanthropic efforts to educate individuals on the benefits of developing a healthy lifestyle. We will create BeFittr sessions that will inform attendees on how to eat healthy, get in shape, and other fitness and health related objectives.
Coast Guard Station St. Clair Shores has implemented the President’s Challenge. To date, 85% of all active duty members are enrolled in the Challenge and on their way to achieving bronze medals! Along with Presidential certificates, the station has special incentives for members who achieve certain milestones. Crew members are given opportunities to acquire more points with three workout hours a week and their progress is tracked weekly on a status board. During 2006, they anticipate 100% participation and numerous fitness medals to be awarded. The unit’s Presidential Challenge administrator is FS2 Galen Varon, who can be reached at: Galen.A.Varon@uscg.mil
The Crim Fitness Foundation, Inc. promotes physical activity for individuals of all ages and provides specific programs for both adults and children.
The Crim Festival of Races is the premier program of the Foundation with a 30-year history, attracting over 50,000 people to downtown Flint, Michigan each August for the running of the world re-known Crim Festival of Races!
CrimKids currently serves over 10,000 children annually in Feeling Good Mileage & Summer Running Clubs and the Annual Crim Kids Classic a family running event each May.
CrimFit is a running/walking program for any adult interested in improving their fitness; the Crim Training Program annually serves over 1,000 people who are interested in competing in one or more of the Crim Road Races.
*All Crim events & corresponding printed materials will recognize the 50th Anniversary partnership.
The mission of The Industrial Athlete, Inc. is to increase worker productivity through the provision of on-site fitness facilities and to decrease lost time through on-site, rapid rehabilitation of injuries. Our success will result in a significant reduction in medical costs, thereby helping American industry achieve its profitability goals and maintain its worldwide competitive edge.
Our target audience would be the 30,000 auto industry employees whom we reach through nine employee fitness facilities (within greater Detroit, MI and Buffalo, NY), and their families. We will tie the President’s Challenge into our regular promotions schedule over the second and third quarters, including family oriented run/walk events. One such event will be run in conjunction with a local community recreation center and open to the public. This promotion will also tie in with National Employee Health and Fitness Day in May.
Oakland Physical Therapy is honored to have been an integral part of the community and has valued the opportunity to provide therapy to thousands of patients since 1981 and to provide an active Community Health Education program to the general public as well as a quarterly newsletter. In addition, Oakland Physical Therapy has remained actively involved by providing clinical education programs to hundreds of physical therapists from several universities.
In concert with the 50th Anniversary of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and National Physical Therapy Month, Oakland Physical Therapy will be celebrating their 25th Anniversary milestone this fall with an Open House, a fitness-centered Community Health Education program and Pilates Program.
The mission of the Port Huron Recreation Department is to plan, promote, organize and supervise a comprehensive municipal recreation program and administer the same in the interest of the entire community. This department shall consistently evaluate the recreational interests and needs of the community and be responsible for the effective communication of the recreation program to the citizens of the city.
Our department operates 10 playgrounds within the City of Port Huron. It is our intention to implement the President’s Challenge program within this program. The program operates for six weeks during the summer and we anticipate an attendance of between 300 and 400 children ages 6-15. A daily activity log, exercise program and healthy snacking will be the focus of the program. We will keep records of activities and award healthy behavior. We feel it is very important to start with the children to develop better and healthier habits.
The Prevention Research Center of Michigan, based at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, conducts community-based research to improve the health of families and communities. We are promoting physical activity though state and local partnerships with health departments, hospitals and community organizations. The Center is evaluating an internet-based program that will allow communities to improve the physical environment and adopt public policies to support and encourage physical activity among all residents. The project has created a research-based guide to help communities make changes to encourage walking, biking and active recreation.
Programs to Educate All Cyclists (PEAC) teaches people with disabilities to become cyclists. Through our various programs, participants learn to ride safely in their communities, participate in weekly family rides, commute to and from work by bicycle, and ride in bicycle tours throughout the state of Michigan. Our participants will use bicycling as a tool for lifelong fitness. By removing the barriers that individuals with disabilities face when cycling, PEAC will be encouraging participants and their family members to live more active lives.
The Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan’s Steps to a Healthier Anishinaabe program works with eight tribes in MI on the areas of Diabetes, Obesity, and Asthma through improved physical activity and nutrition along with smoking cessation. Each of the eight tribes has unique interventions that encourage their populations to move more and to eat better. Upcoming 2006 activities include a “Belly Busters” exercise program, a “Lifestyle Coach” Program, a “Get in and Get Fit” fitness program, “Get Moving” fitness challenge, “10,000 steps a day” programs, “Walk the Path” diabetes prevention programs, and many more. We look forward to partnering with PCPFS.
Contact: Christin Hasselbring, Executive Director
E-mail: cmhasselb@aol.com
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Wellness Institute of America (WIA) is guided by its conviction that providing a work environment supportive of positive health and fitness practices fosters a healthier lifestyle for employees. This, in turn, benefits employers by contributing directly to increased productivity and containment of escalating health care costs. We continually strive to deliver the highest quality programs and education and provide the broadest scope of opportunities for all employees.
WIA is contracted out by companies to manage their onsite fitness centers and wellness programs. We currently manage 11 fitness centers for Ford Motor Company and 17 Fitness Centers and 5 wellness programs for DaimlerChrysler. We educate the employees of these plants on various topics including nutrition, exercise, stress and disease management, smoking cessation, cholesterol and blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes, just to name a few. We use the National Health Observance Calendar to promote special events and educational topics. We also run incentive program and fitness challenges to encourage current and new members to participate in physical activity. Incentive items are usually given to increase participation. We would use stop-by-tables out in the plants to promote the 50th anniversary and the Get America Moving program. We would encourage everyone to Get Moving!
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