Healthy Kids Day Packet

Put play & health into your day Sports & Fitness Clinics Boxing, Basketball, Lacrosse, Soccer, Football, Rock Climbing Health Screenings & Services Vision, Hearing, Diabetes, Weight Management Nutrition & Cooking Clinics WIC Registration, Healthy Cooking Demonstrations Arts & Dance Classes Yoga, Pilates, Martial Arts, Group Exercise

MUCH MORE! Presented by the Sponsored by

Jefferson County Childhood Obesity Task Force

Birmingham YMCA Youth Center | 9 a-3 p 2400 7th Avenue North | Birmingham, AL 35203 Located in Park Place in the heart of Downtown Birmingham

& Other Community Partners

Contact

Birmingham Metropolitan YMCA Jones Valley Urban Farm Children’s Health Systems United Way of Central Alabama Lakeshore Foundation Better Basics Birmingham Water Works Birmingham City Schools Birmingham Parks & Recreation Jefferson County Department of Health Junior League of Birmingham McWane Science Center Pioneering Healthy Communities Over The Mountain Youth Sports Review

Loyd McIntosh: 801.7210 or lmcintosh@ymcabham.org or Bree Garrett: 439.7213 or nutrition@jvuf.org.

Free to entire community!

Our Mission To put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.

Our Vision We will lead our community to become the healthiest in America

Learn more online at www.ymcabham.org

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ooking for a not-so-average Saturday this spring? Make plans to attend the 2009 Healthy Kids Day on April 18 at the Birmingham YMCA Youth Center. With athletic clinics, cooking and nutrition demonstrations, health screenings, kids from all over the Birmingham area will be able to "put play in their day" while also learning about healthy lifestyles.

The 2009 Healthy Kids Day is sponsored

by Moe’s Southwest Grill and presented by the Jefferson County Childhood Obesity Task Force (JCCOTF), committee comprised Healthy Kids Day Builds on of commuNew Community Partnerships nity health and wellness leaders that formed last year in order to combat the youth obesity epidemic in Birmingham. The partnership with the JCCOTF has made the YMCA even stronger in its fight to help Birmingham citizen lead healthier, happier lives.

“The task force wanted to work with YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day by bringing

Put play, and health, into your day

together a wide variety of organizations and citizens committed to making Birmingham a healthier place to live,” said Bree Garrett, Healthy Kids Day co-chair and community nutrition coordinator for Jones Valley Urban Farm, a JCCOTF agency.

With Alabama ranking 11th among all 50 states and the District of Columbia in childhood obesity, the issue has become a major touchstone in efforts to make Birmingham the healthiest community in America.

“Nearly one-third of all U.S. children and adolescents are either overweight or obese, putting them at higher risk for heart disease, type II diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, asthma and certain types of cancer,” Garrett added. “Because of these childhood diseases, this is the first generation of children who are not expected to outlive their parents.”

The primary goal of Healthy Kids Day is to provide an introduction to a variety of sports and other activities, giving children of all ages and abilities the opportunity to gravitate to one

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that best suits them. Along with clinics in soccer, basketball, football, and rock climbing, children will also be exposed to Yoga and Pilates, dance, lacrosse, ultimate disc, and even boxing.

"We not only have to reach out to the children who are at-risk, but reach each family and get back to the simplicities of playing outside, cooking at home and having meals together, and making healthy choices," said Lisa Jones, Director of Association Advancement for the Birmingham YMCA. In addition to the physical activities, diet and nutrition education will be a major part of 2009 Healthy Kids Day. Children and parents will get to tour the Jones Valley Urban farm next door to the Youth Center, and participate in healthy cooking demonstrations in the Youth Center’s teaching kitchen throughout the day.

“The goal is to celebrate wellness and to draw families' attention to local healthy eating and active living resources available to them,” Garrett said.

Health care professionals will also be on hand providing hearing, vision, and diabetes screenings, and body mass index. Join the YMCA and the entire community for Healthy Kids Day and help make this community the healthiest it can be.

Top A group of children compete to answer a question during a nutrition demonstration in the Youth Center's teaching kitchen.

Above Susanna Whitsett leads a group during a youth Pilates class in the performing arts studio.

Left A young girl suits up for her turn on the 30-foot climbing tower at the Youth Center.

Sponsored by

Presented by

The Jefferson County Childhood Obesity Task Force Programs, support & other services provided by, but not limited to:

Junior League of Birmingham Better Basics Lakeshore Foundation United Way of Central Alabama Birmingham City Schools

Round 1 Boxing No Training Wheels Lakeshore Foundation Birmingham Youth Lacrosse League Southeastern Bible College Basketball Team UAB Athletics Birmingham Ultimate Disc Association Children’s Health System of Alabama Jefferson County Department of Health For schedule updates go online to www.ymcabham.org.

Saturday, April 18, 2009 Birmingham YMCA Youth Center

Print a copy of the registration form and fill it out prior to arriving at the Youth Center for Healthy Kids Day and turn it in without having to wait in line.

Name of Parent or Guardian __________________________________________________________________________________________

(Last)

(First)

(Initial)

Name and Age of each child ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Address

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Phone ______________________________________________________ E-mail __________________________________________________ Are you a YMCA Member or Program Participant Are you interested in learning about memberships at the YMCA If Yes, how do you wish to be contacted?

q Yes q Yes q Telephone

q No q No q E-mail

q Mail

Use of the YMCA facilities and participation in sports or other physically demanding activities inherently expose the participant to a certain degree of risk of personal injury, Illness, and other adverse medical consequences. The YMCA is not an insurer of a guest’s life or personal safety. No guest will engage in activities which require a level of physical fitness exceeding the guest’s physical condition or abilities, as determined by the guest.

Every guest assumes the risk of personal injury, illness, or other conditions arising out of or related to the guest’s activities on YMCA premises and releases the YMCA, its directors, officers, agents, and employees from all claims, actions, or liability on account of such causes.

By registering your children for YMCA Healthy Kids Day, you agree to allow the association to take photographs of your children during the event for publicity and print materials.

Signature ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Our Mission: To put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.

Birmingham YMCA Youth Center 324.1643 2400 Seventh Avenue North Birmingham, AL 35203 www.ymcabham.org