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Active
Life Grant
Pacific Camps was designed to give children
a safe and engaging way to spend their summer and before
and after school hours and to give working parents, especially
single mothers, affordable child care by staff who are
committed to the welfare of children.
Currently, there are immense gaps in recreational services,
fitness opportunities, and physical education classes
for Ventura County's lowest income families. The Active
Life Project will increase the number of students
participating in physical education activities and the
percentage of those students that make progress toward
state standards for physical education.
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only are schools offering fewer physical activity opportunities,
but there are also few affordable and accessible opportunities
for children to access physical activities during non-school
hours (Overweight Kids: Why Should We Care? By the
California Research Bureau with requests by Senators Martha
Escutia and Cathie Wright, December 2000).
The Active Life Project was designed to help children
of working parents achieve California's
seven physical fitness challenge standards, which
dovetail with six PEP program elements: 1) fitness education
and assessment (e.g., individual assessment and tracking
through fitness diaries), 2) various motor skills and
fitness activities (e.g., track and field, ropes course,
weight training, sports leagues), 3) cognitive concepts
(e.g., credentialed teachers, family health information)
4) social and cooperative skills (e.g., atmosphere of
respect, mentoring, awards, responsibility curriculum),
5) healthy eating habit and nutrition (e.g., healthy nutrition
class and CPR training), and 6) professional development
for Pacific Camps staff.
Participants in Active Life will learn about fitness,
movement skills, and healthy lifestyle choices in a fun,
safe environment with children of all levels of abilities
and similar family structure and financial constraints.
Pacific Camps mission is to keep children from unhealthy
eating habits like this. |
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