Active Arizona for Life Coalition
This statewide coalition has four active committees including Communities, Schools, Older Adults and Worksites. Goals for 2006 include: 1) implement a physical education survey to assess how many schools require and/or provide physical education; 2) implementation of the Arizona Community Health Assessment Tool to assist communities identify areas where improvements can be made to promote physical activity; 3) work with the Arizona Governor’s Council on Health, Physical Fitness and Sport to recognize Arizona employers who support physical activity in the workplace; and 4) publish a resource manual highlighting activities/facilities that older adults can utilize to be more physically active.
Arizona Department of Health Services - "Make Your Move"
Employee Wellness Council
Arizona’s Department of Health Services encourages all employees to be active 30 minutes a day. To help employees achieve this, the Employee Wellness Council offers daily physical activity classes for all employees and twice a week, the Department’s Director guides a 15-minute walk around the state capitol. In addition to the activities above, the department holds monthly wellness lectures and publishes wellness tips to employees via the department’s intranet. Finally, the Employee Wellness site houses items to help employees be active such as desk stretches, stretch band exercises and an area walking map.
The mission of the YMCA is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
We will make a banner for all participants to sign so we can give them credit for 25/50 days of all types of activities from the fitness center to all types of fitness classes.
Erin Nurss, Miss Southeast Arizona 2006
As Miss Southeast Arizona 2006, I have begun a program called the Healthy Habits Challenge. I speak to elementary and middle schools in Southeast Arizona about the importance of a healthy diet and regular exercise, then challenge them to make changes. I ask them to record the changes they are making and turn them in to their teachers. I collect the sheets once a month and average each class’s changes. The class with the most changes will earn a luncheon with a local celebrity, most likely a collegiate athlete.
INSPIREHealth.org, formally Run Drugs Out of Town Run, Inc., is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation founded in Arizona and currently registered in 28 states. Our aim is to help people to a drug free life by teaching them to make better choices.
We know that kids who participate in sports are far less likely to do drugs and we also know that physical activity is essential to better health. INSPIREHealth.org currently has 73 chiropractors who are looking for ways to help their patients and communities be healthier. Besides encouraging our patients to set workout goals and participate in Get America Moving we will also work with schools in our communities to get kids running against drug abuse with the Run Drugs Out of Town Run.
La Posada at Park Centre Inc.
This not-for-profit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) located in Green Valley, Arizona seeks to maximize the care and well-being of seniors. To achieve this mission, La Posada promotes a wide range of fitness programs and social activities to the nearly 800 residents who live at La Posada (average age of 86). Fitness activities include the walking Trailblazers, yoga classes, Pilates, Tai Chi, line dancing, water aerobics, and circuit training. La Posada’s residents are participating in the Walk Across Arizona. Seniors who live at a CCRC and are active mentally and physically typically outlive the average senior.
Kidz for Life mission is to empower kids to be successful, happy, and healthy in all areas of their life through a complete understanding of themselves.
From health and wellness classes, health initiative consulting, and general health-related seminars, Kidz for Life offers a full range of health programs tailored for people of all ages. We work with groups, families, or individuals. Kidz for Life provides all the necessary components to implement and maintain a cost-effective health program in a school setting, as well. We help to replace important health education programs that may have been cut due to school budget constraints.
Our mission is to exceed our members’ expectations through a service that integrates exciting, results oriented, scientific based, and supportive instruction with an empowering online community.
LIVE offers an online source for fitness and nutrition information, exercise and diet services, and interactive supportive community. LIVE’s whole goal is for people to be fit for life, and we believe this is accomplished through different levels of support. We are striving everyday to create a vehicle that allows those that want to get fit and are insecure about joining a gym, unable to afford a personal trainer or dietician, or have busy lives. Our philosophy that everyone has an inner athlete inside of them we believe is inline with the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Inner athlete is about we all have an athlete inside of us and that through athletic goals like running a 5k, hiking, playing tennis, and many more are the key to being fit for life. In our experience people that choose inner athlete goals are more successful than those that pick cosmetic goals, even in cosmetic results. At LIVE, we look forward to supporting the Council’s push to get America active.
SilverSneakers® Fitness Program
The SilverSneakers Fitness Program is the nation’s leading exercise program designed exclusively for older adults. The award-winning program appeals to members at all fitness levels because of its high-touch, customized approach to increasing physical activity. With the average life expectancy in the United States now at 77 years, quality of life in one’s alter years is increasingly important. Adults over age 65 who adopt a physically active lifestyle can improve their health – and their quality of life – substantially. SilverSneakers is offered at more than 1500 fitness centers and class sites in 46 states. Please visit www.silversneakers.com for more information on this unique program.
Tucson Sport Magazine, along with the Activate Tucson Team, will join forces and work collaboratively to increase the overall flow of quality information, activities, and athletic challenges aimed directly at Southern Arizona’s active and sporting families of all ages and abilities and to impact overall quality of life through the celebration of family, sport, and life.
YMCA of Metropolitan Tucson's Activate Tucson
Our mission is to activate the Tucson area to achieve healthier lifestyles through education, motivation, facilitation through long term collaboration with business, government, schools, communities, neighborhoods, families, social service agencies, and media.
Our goals include:
- Involve key stakeholders throughout the greater Tucson area representing all facets of the community.
- Become the clearinghouse of physical activity and nutritional information for the greater Tucson area.
- Influence all public policy to have positive influence on physical activity and nutrition.
- Promote and support both new and existing activities in greater Tucson that encourage people to achieve healthier and more active lifestyles.
- Provider and promote information and education on healthier/more active lifestyles.
- Develop and deliver informational and motivational messages through local media based on the PCPFS 50th anniversary.
- Sustainability.
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