Many Latino students don’t meet daily recommendations of physical activity because they lack access to quality activity opportunities during school and they are burdened by barriers to access quality activity opportunities after school, such as safety, availability and cost. Kids that don’t meet daily recommendations of physical activity are at increased risk for obesity and other adverse health outcomes. Two PE teachers in Edmonds School District in Washington developed a before/after school program as well as a recess program to help kids reach 60 minutes of recommended daily activity on most days of the week. They developed these programs to be implemented in schools to reduce accessibility barriers associated with safety, availability and cost.
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Latino, black, and white adults all list childhood obesity and bullying as two of the top-three child health issues, but Latinos rank child abuse and neglect higher, according to the annual National Poll on Children’s Health by the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Overall, adults grew increasingly concerned about Internet safety (the 4th-biggest issue, up from 8th last year) and sexting (up to 6th from 13th). For Latinos, the issues that increased in concern were: Childhood obesity (rose to 1st biggest issue, up from 3rd last year)
Child abuse and neglect (rose to 3rd from 14th last year)
Internet safety (rose to 6th from 11th last year)
Sexting (rose to 7th from 8th last year)
Teen pregnancy (rose to 8th from 10th last year)
Suicide (rose to 9th from 13th last ...
In a Florida school district that didn’t provide health classes in high schools, a health educator, Risa Berrin, and her sister, Valerie Berrin, worked together to raise the bar on health education with their Health Information Project (HIP). HIP is a peer-to-peer program that allows students to teach each other about health problems, prevention, and how to access to local health resources toward reducing obesity, suicide, depression and other issues.
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Awareness: Risa Berrin was a health reporter for her college newspaper when she first started seeing how teens were unaware or misinformed about health and prevention. She became part of the solution, starting a career as a certified human growth and reproductive health educator. While teaching law classes at a Miami-area ...
Georgia Shape, a statewide initiative which seeks to bring an additional 30 minutes of physical activity to every elementary school in Georgia has partnered with the Atlanta Falcons Youth Foundation and Playworks, an organization that works to improve the quality of recess by creating a bully-free zone. Through the partnership, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, commissioner Georgia Department of Public Health, said in a Crossroads news article, that the aim would be to make recess safer by providing support and training to staff for delivering the Playworks curriculum to at least 35,000 students at elementary schools across the state. To support this effort and to make recess more inclusive, the Atlanta Falcons Youth Foundation provided an additional $750,000 in grant funds towards the ...
Physical activity and recess are both important to a child's development and growth, but many times students aren't provided with enough recess time at school. This is especially true for Latino students. According to a Salud America! research brief, schools with predominantly Latino students were were less likely to receive at least 20 minutes of recess compared to schools with primarily White students. Playworks, a national non-profit that helps schools transform the recess experience for students, is working to help change that. They are asking parents to learn more about the state of recess at their child's local school. All kids should be getting at least an hour of physical activity everyday and part of that should include 20 minutes of recess time. Unfortunately many ...
More Hispanic adults (47%) than white adults (39%) rate childhood obesity as the leading health concern for children in their communities, according to the latest annual poll by the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health. Overall, childhood obesity is the leading concern of all parents. However, the poll reflects markedly varied perspectives about child health concerns by race/ethnicity: Hispanic adults are more likely than black or white adults to express concerns about bullying and alcohol abuse.
Black adults express greater concerns about teen pregnancy. Hispanics didn't rate teen pregnancy in their Top-10 concerns.
Both blacks and Hispanics express greater concern than whites about school violence. "Such differences of perspective likely ...
Latino parents, how do you start a conversation on health and healthy weight with your children? A new parent conversation guide, “Weigh In: Talking to Your Children About Weight and Health,” is an online resource created to fill the information gap and offer practical advice for parents to responsibly and compassionately respond to real-world scenarios, such as: Understanding body mass index (BMI)
Body image
Bullying
Weight bias
Family obesity Download the guide, a collaboration between the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity ...
U.S. adults rate "not enough exercise" at the top of the list of top health problems for children in their communities, according to the sixth annual survey of top health concerns conducted by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health. Other top overall health concerns include childhood obesity, smoking, drug abuse and bullying. Hispanic adults were more likely to rate childhood obesity first, followed by "not enough exercise." Hispanics also rated drug abuse higher than smoking and tobacco use. Hispanic and black adults both identified sexually transmitted infections as a greater concern for kids in their communities than did white adults. Despite these differences, Hispanic, black and white adults agreed that "not enough ...
Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series that will highlight the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s work in Latino communities across the country. SaludToday Guest Blogger: Nancy Barrand Many children don’t get the recommended daily allowance of play they need to stay healthy. School recess is the number one opportunity to make sure kids are physically active. Playworks, a program that protects and promotes recess and physical activity throughout the school day, supplies trained, full-time staff to more than 100,000 students every day. These “recess rock stars,” as the organization calls them, teach new and classic games at low-income urban schools in 20 cities around the country, including Latino communities in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, N.M., Houston and ...
