This is the third session of a six-week "Fun With Food & Fitness" program designed by medical and physical therapy students at SUNY Upstate Medical University as part of a Semester of Service. Through a series of interactive games and healthy snacks, SUNY Upstate students will bring nutrition education to fourth grade students at Dr. King Magnet School.

This is the fourth session of a six-week "Fun With Food & Fitness" program designed by medical and physical therapy students at SUNY Upstate Medical University as part of a Semester of Service. Through a series of interactive games and healthy snacks, SUNY Upstate students will bring nutrition education to fourth grade students at Dr. King Magnet School.

This is the sixth and final session of a six-week "Fun With Food & Fitness" program designed by medical and physical therapy students at SUNY Upstate Medical University as part of a Semester of Service. Through a series of interactive games and healthy snacks, SUNY Upstate students will bring nutrition education to fourth grade students at Dr. King Magnet School.

This is the fifth session of a six-week "Fun With Food & Fitness" program designed by medical and physical therapy students at SUNY Upstate Medical University as part of a Semester of Service. Through a series of interactive games and healthy snacks, SUNY Upstate students will bring nutrition education to fourth grade students at Dr. King Magnet School.

Students at Cypress Trails Elementary are designing and building two walking trails on school campus to be used for walking breaks during the school day. Raccoon Trail is marked with red paw prints and is 3/10ths of a milej. Fox Trail is marked with orange paw prints and is 1/10th of a mile. The students cut down tree branches, raked leaves, cleaned up tree debris, painted trail signs, installed trail signs, and made a map of the trails.

April 24th, 2009
Kick-off for Let's Get Fit Field Day for all youth at Vare Beacon Middle school
To inspire creativity and raise awareness to health in the community
To motivate the youth to plan their own field day
May 29th, 2009
3-6pm organization wide field day
Youth Leaders from Vare Beacon will administer the event at 24th and Snyder Ave in Point Breeze with the activities and health topics that they feel are most appropriate to the neighborhood
Over 250 children will participate
June 6th, 2009

Julian, California– (DATE) – Julian Elementary/Julian Pathways has received a $1,000 UnitedHealth HEROES service-learning grant from Youth Service America (YSA) and UnitedHealth Group.

HEROES grants support youth-led projects that combat childhood obesity and encourage healthy lifestyles. Naming children and youth as ‘first responders’ to this national crisis, HEROES grants challenge youth to find solutions to a health issue that directly affects them.

Julian Union School District will be celebrating student service learning projects at our Global Youth Service Day event on April 23 at 12:45 in the Julian Elementary multi-purpose room located at 1704 Cape Horn Drive, Julian, California. The community is invited to attend and discover the amazing array of community service projects our students and teachers are conducting.

Rocky Mountain High School will host dozens of interactive healthy activities during a Lobo Day of Wellness, an event designed to promote health and wellness among students, staff and community members.

The Lobo Day of Wellness will be from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and the day will feature live hip hop dancing demos, free yoga classes, informational booths, blood pressure screenings and bike giveaways.

This event is sponsored by Seton Hall University, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program and will take place at the Cerebral Palsy of North Jersey Horizon Lower School and High School in Livingston, NJ on April 23rd, 2010 as a celebration of fitness in honor of GYSD. This is the culminating event of a fitness program conducted by the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT)students for children and adolescents with special needs.

First Grade Students from Peralta Elementary School will visit seniors at Bay Area Community Service Adult Day Care Center at The North Oakland Senior Center. The student will make musical instruments with the seniors and then use the instruments to accompany some songs that they will sing with their music teacher - Bonnie Lockhardt

This event directly addresses childhood obesity and healthy living by working with young people in Greensboro, North Carolina. The semester-long service project involves undergraduate students from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro working with school-age children in Guilford County. UNCG students have been working with school-age children to develop a Food and Nutrition Fair for an organization called Parents as Teachers. The Food and Nutrition Fair will be held on April 24th.

Members of Payson High School's (Payson, AZ) Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) Club are performing a service-learning project to promote physical activity and nutrition/health awareness among the young people of our community. We are working with students in grades 5-8 at the Tonto Basin School in Tonto Basin, AZ, to conduct a walking/fitness program and to help students set individual goals related to nutrition and healthy eating habits.

This event is made possible by a generous grant from United Healthcare and will be coordinated by the Jefferson Awards Student Leaders and Kennedy Angels. In cooperation with the health, physical education departments and select sports teams, such as the track and field team, the students would like to host a health and fitness day in the park. The main focus of the day will be a walk/run but the students also imagine having track and field, fitness events and a mini health fair whereby they would invite community health and fitness professionals.

This event will be in partnership with the Jefferson Awards Youth Service Initiative (www.jeffersonawards.org) and the Building with Books Club (www.buildOn.org), thanks to a generous grant provided by United Healthcare. The student leaders will organize a dance-a-thon with a global focus. Freshmen and Sophomores will be asked to find sponsorship for their entry into the "Dance-A-Thon" with the object being to find out who will be the last couple standing after 3 1/2 hours of dancing. Their fellow peers will cheer them on!

All middle school age children and parents of the Columbus area are welcome to attend After-School All-Stars Columbus' 2009 Youth Health and Sports Field Day. Children and their parents will have the opportunity to participate in fun activities while learning about healthy living and getting some exercise! The event will take place on Saturday, April 25th, 2009 from approximately 9:00am to 1:00pm.

Schedule:

All participants will gather on the basketball court at Blackburn Recreation Center from 8:45-9:00am on Saturday, April 25, 2009.

Modesto's Eisenhut Elementary School was recognized for its effort to combat childhood obesity when it received a UnitedHealth HEROES grant from Youth Service America and UnitedHealthcare. Visit http://tinyurl.com/c8h98w for more information.

The youth health promoters from Erie's Youth Options Unlimited program will have an event called "Create Your Own Salad" with the goal of increasing health awareness and healthy food choices that are both nutritious and delicious. By allowing the youth and their families explore new vegetables bought at local supermarkets at an economic price, they will realize that eating healthy might fit their budget. On Friday, April 24, 2009 from 2:00-5:00PM the youth and their families will have the opportunity to create their own salad by choosing their own ingredients.

The Pioneer Roots and Shoots kids are learning a lot about healthy living and plan to share their knowledge and skills with the other students at their school and on GYSD in Lafayette CO. The children will display an educational booth about healthy living and will have their new book available called Eat Run and Have Some Fun- a healthy living guide for kids.

Gove's Wellness Student Council sponsors and guidance department invited the schools wellness business sponsors plus many new business and educational programs for a week of learning a variety of new career opportunities for our students and school family plus be informed of what buisnesses and services are in our community. The culminating event will be on Friday with a Wellness Walk around the World. We will invite the families and community to walk with our school and bring attention to ways to save our people, community and planet by being aware of wellness and green pathways.

The United Way of Blair County's Youth Leadership Board consists of high school students, younger students from the County’s Foster Care and Juvenile Probation programs, as well as college students. Thirty youth board members will design and implement programs that promote physical activity and healthy eating. These programs will be held at different locations each month, including a low-income housing development, a recreation center, and a college campus, and offer nutrition education to increase healthy eating habits as well as physical activities to promote exercise.

1. Event Name:
The official title(as submitted in the grant): "The Gardening Project: Growing Healthy Habits in Baltimore’s Children.”

2. Detailed Event Information:

April 24, 2009: 1 p.m.- 3 p.m., in the lobby of Harford Heights Elementary School (1919 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21213)

3. Event Description:

A "Train the Trainer" event will be in held in which early childhood education staff members will learn how to implement an Early Childhood Healthy Eating and Lifestyles Program at their centers.

The HT High Flyers will perform a jump rope demonstration of youth fitness and healthy active living with jump rope skills for individuals, pairs, small groups, and teams. Then, volunteer team jumpers will teach and model jump rope fitness to all participants in a wide variety of skills and exercises.

Jones College Prep students will raise money to support an organization that promotes health and fitness among youth. Students will educate their peers adn participate in a three mile walk around Chicago's grant park.

To learn about local seasonal foods Peralta Elementary School students will make two trips to a local farmers market during two different growing seasons. They will meet the farmers, talk to them about the foods they are growing, origins, growing qualities, and purchase food for a snack for the other elementary school students. They will take photos while at the farmers market. They will return to school, prepare a snack, and serve it to the rest of the school. While serving, they will also describe what they learned about the food at the farmers market.

True Vine Health Services, Inc., is sponsoring a youth obesity prevention program.

This event is being held in conjunction with Youth Service Day on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:30 am to 1:30pm at Cornerstone Community Church in Orangeburg, SC.

The primary focus of the project is to motivate children to live healthy lives by eating healthy and exercising on a daily basis. There will be two fun, interactive workshops on healthy eating and healthy physical activity.

Results of a Healthy Items Restaurant Menu Project in Posey County, Indiana on April 24 from 2-4 pm with a celebration of outcomes at the University of Southern Indiana Health Professions Building room 1079.

7th & 8th grade students from Valley View Elementary School will design a project focusing on health and obesity. Students will raise awareness and educate about the health and obesity problem in South Phoenix; inform others to plan, budget, and prepare low-fat meals; and talk about how health problems can affect peer relationships.

Students will attend and participate in the AZ Human Rights Global Youth Leadership Conference on April 24, 2009.

The students in the forum will become health leaders of the school by undergoing their own "boot camp" of fitness and nutrition twice a week for 3 months. They will learn how to read labels, portion control, estimate nutritional value, and write food journals. They will have their body composition outline, make goals, use pedometers, heart rate monitors, and record in their exercise journals. Their focus is not only on improving their own Wellness but also conducting surveys and making suggestions that would represent the entire student population.