This week we would like to spotlight the Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program for Children™ (Hip Hop), a comprehensive wellness program bringing together physical education, music, and arts in grade K-6th.
The Program Basics
Hip Hop works through wellness education that flows from teacher, to student, to family and the community at large.…
This week we would like to spotlight Alive!, an email-delivered intervention to help people increase their physical activity and improve their diets.
The Program Basics
The core of the Alive! program, is individualized weekly goal-setting, according to Dr. Gladys Block. Alive! is intended for adults with access to email and the web.…
By NCHPAD
There is a critical need to increase participation in physical activity for everyone, this we already know. Unfortunately, many physical activity programs are not designed in a way that includes people with disabilities. Recognizing the need for inclusive programming and the common barriers to physical activity for people with disabilities (cost, transportation, don’t know where/how to exercise, inaccessible facilities, lack of knowledgeable staff) the staff at the National Center on Physical Activity and Disability (NCPAD) knew it was time to put their heads together to come up with something creative, something that hadn’t been tried before. …