{"id":535,"date":"2013-04-08T17:38:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T23:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challenge.dev2.formbox.biz\/blog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2013-04-08T17:38:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T23:38:50","slug":"a-healthy-month-of-march-our-challenge-with-beaumont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/a-healthy-month-of-march-our-challenge-with-beaumont\/","title":{"rendered":"A Healthy Month of March: Our Challenge with Beaumont"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the month of March, we partnered with Beaumont Health System<\/a>\u00a0on a unique and fun challenge centered around the topic of health and wellbeing.\u00a0 It was the first time we were tasked with a healthy living project that would directly impact children. In the past, we worked on food access, but we never focused directly on children. Childhood obesity is a major issue throughout the country, and especially in Michigan.\u00a0 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 33% of children between ages 10-17 were overweight or obese in 2012. \u00a0These health risks disproportionally affect lower income and poverty stricken homes, which are largely seen in the metro Detroit region.\u00a0 Many youth in various communities pick up poor eating and physical activity habits throughout their childhood, and this carries on to their adolescent, young adult and adult years.\u00a0 If youth are properly educated on eating healthy and being more physically active, they will greatly reduce their risk of disease later in life, helping them save money in the future because of the high cost of health care.<\/p>\n

The challenge presented to the Fellows was to come up with two different 1-hour programs, one for a school assembly and the other for a community center workshop, focused on health and wellbeing with the goal of combatting obesity. We were split into teams and tasked with designing engaging, fun activities for schoolchildren that would motivate them to change the way they eat for a healthier lifestyle, increase their physical activity to ensure their bodies stay fit, and modify behavior towards healthy living.\u00a0 We worked for four weeks in various settings.<\/p>\n

We kicked off the challenge at Beaumont\u2019s training facility in Troy.\u00a0 Beaumont was gracious enough to provide us with a full day of educational panels, headed up by some of the leading healthcare professionals in the state! We were also asked to arrive in professional \u201cfit-friendly\u201d attire so we could participate in some light yet active physical exercises throughout our day.\u00a0 In the morning we did some stretching, followed by power-walking after lunch and then an afternoon exercise break using fit-bands. Not only did we learn a ton about healthy living\u2014from a nutrition, physical activity, and behavioral perspective\u2014but Beaumont truly rolled out the red carpet for our team.\u00a0 They provided us with many resources and fed us a truly healthy breakfast and lunch!<\/p>\n

In the second week, we worked at Rutherford Winans Academy in Detroit.\u00a0 Rutherford Winans currently partners with Beaumont; through this partnership, Rutherford Winans provides a great physical activity room for ANYONE in the neighborhood to use AND fully staffs a medical clinic for children, teachers, administrators and neighborhood residents for small medical issues.\u00a0 The school trip afforded us the opportunity to interview students and parents in various grades about their healthy living habits.\u00a0 We learned that kids did enjoy eating healthy and playing around, but a lot of the influence came from the parents.\u00a0 We also had the opportunity to eat with some kids during their lunch period.<\/p>\n

\"Gym\"<\/a>In our third week, we were back at another Beaumont-related facility in Grosse Pointe called the Neighborhood Club.\u00a0 The objective for the third week was to compile all the information we learned as well as all ideas we brainstormed into more digestible activities for the school and community center programs we were developing.\u00a0 We worked extremely hard that day, but we also had some fun.\u00a0 Part of the reason we worked at the Neighborhood Club was to see how a community center operated.\u00a0 We were again asked to wear \u201cfit-friendly\u201d attire and got a nice little afternoon sweat going from our mini boot-camp workout and basketball games. All the fellows loved taking a fun, active break from work!<\/p>\n

\"Beaumont2\"<\/a>Finally, our last week with Beaumont ended on a great note on an actual spring-like Friday! Fellows presented their interactive health programs, including a marketing strategy for outreach to both schools and community centers, to an audience of over 50 people from Beaumont and other guests.\u00a0 Overall, it seemed everyone was very impressed with our Fit-Ready: Mind+Body+Plate<\/i> school and community center programs.\u00a0 Activities demoed included dancing to improve physical activity and learning how to read food labels by playing a board game with stickers.\u00a0 After the final presentation finished, we ended the day celebrating with another healthy lunch meal and further dialogue about health and wellness. We look \"Beaumont1\"<\/a>forward to seeing how Beaumont implements the programs we created into their work with children in the greater Detroit community!<\/p>\n

\u00a0Contributed by fellows Isaac Gilman and Brittany Sanders<\/em><\/p>\n

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