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Children teaching children to move, fuel up, and feel good!
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Healthy eating and active living help create a culture of well being and good health. If we are to grow healthy and active children, we must all share in the responsibility. Variety, with support from the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion and Healthy Buddies—an initiative of BC Children’s Hospital, is committed to expanding its Fitness Friends program to include delivery of the Healthy Buddies classroom program that helps teach children to live healthier lives.
Healthy Buddies empowers elementary school children to live healthier lives by providing them, their teachers and their parents with knowledge about, and a positive attitude toward, the three components of health: physical activity, healthy eating and positive self image.
Program delivery is based on children teaching children. Buddy time is formalized in a unique way that helps educators address children’s health issues and fosters supportive relationships between peer students. The older students are empowered by mentoring the younger students’ learning. This nurtures a better understanding of the program content and creates a positive school climate for the younger buddies.
For information on the origin of Healthy Buddies and to read the pilot study,
please visit www.healthybuddies.ca.
Program available for implementation in January 2008. To register your class for the program, please call 416-699-7167 x. 262 or email info@varietyontario.ca.
This program is made possible with the generous support of:
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