Healthy Lifestyles
Healthy Lifestyles
Through Healthy Lifestyles programming, youth learn about good nutrition and how to make smart meal and snack choices. Members receive coaching in sports leagues and fun activities, developing their coordination and leadership skills. Organized social recreation activities strengthen character, increase confidence and enhance the ability to relate well to others.
Healthy Lifestyle programs were developed to increase the following among Club members:
- Their knowledge of healthy habits, good nutrition and physical fitness;
- The number of hours per day participating in physical activities;
- Their ability to interact positively with all youth and engage in healthy relationships; and;
- Increased participation at the Club, including recruiting new members.
The program consciously incorporates elements of belonging, competence, usefulness and influence. For example, Boys & Girls Club designed sessions to provide a mechanism for older members to assist younger members, which provided older youth with a sense of usefulness and influence while reinforcing
the positive behaviors that are the goal of the program.
