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HealthMPowers' Stories of Impact: Cowan Road Elementary School implements healthy school-wide change!
Cowan Road Elementary dedicated the entire month of January to health---providing games, activities, competitions and events for their students, staff and families! Andrea Bonner, one of HealthMPowers' school contacts, shared with us some of the fun ideas they implemented to get the whole school engaged and excited about health.
Setting the tone for a healthy and energized day, the students and teachers at Cowan Road began and ended their day with the HealthMPowers' Mind in Motion exercise video. This school-wide policy has students and teachers participating in "Brain Boosters" twice every day. Andrea told us, "The students loved it! It was a great way to start and finish the school day."
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PLAY recognizes HealthMPowers as a "Model School Based Program"
HealthMPowers has been named "A Model School-Based Program" by PLAY (Policy Leadership for Active Youth) in their policy brief Spring 2012, citing our commitment to work with schools to make nutritious foods more accessible and increase opportunities for physical activity. The brief focuses on the strengths of HealthMPowers' program: promoting policies, motivating students, staff wellness, engaging parents and families, and evaluation; as well as the results, which include increasing regular physical activity during the school day, improving cardiovascular fitness and BMI, increasing health-knowledge, and behavior change.
The major focus of PLAY is connecting emerging evidence around childhood overweight and obesity to prevention and reduction activities occurring throughout Georgia.
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