Health and Life Skills
HEALTHY HABITS
Runs 10 weeks each Tuesday from 4:00 to4:30pm.
The program starts in the fall ages 9-10 and after the new
year for ages 6-8.
Lesson 1: Learning about "My Pyramid"
Lesson 2: Portion Distortion
Lesson 3: Eating for Energy
Lesson 4: Fad Diets
Lesson 5: Fruits and Veggies
Lesson 6: Cooking
Lesson 7: Healthy Bones and Teeth
Lesson 8: All Body Systems
Lesson 9: Focus on the Food Environment
Lesson 10: Eating Away from Home
The SMART Moves (Skills Mastery and Resistance Training) program helps young people avoid four of the most immediate threats to their well-being: alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, and premature sexual activity.
SMART Moves uses age-specific modules that engage Club Staff, parents, community members and other teen members in a team approach to prevention. Therefore, depending on age, Club members will participate in the following:
SMART Kids: for ages 6-9; focuses on building self-esteem, positive social skills and the skills to avoid drugs and other harmful influences.
Start SMART: for preteens ages 10-12; Presents information and skills needed to resist pressures to get involved in alcohol, tobacco, other drugs or sexual activity. Group members analyze influences from the media and from peers; they also practice resisting peer pressure.
Stay SMART: for teens ages 13-15; provides information about alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and sexuality and develops skills to help teenagers make healthy choices. Teens practice problem solving and decision making, stress reduction techniques and ways to resist peer and media pressures.
The SMART Moves program is incorporated into our Summer, Education,
Social Recreation, and Youth Sports programs.
ALL afterschool programs
incorporate SMART Moves.
Theater-Theater members are teaching each
other about gateway drugs by writing and performing their own
skits.
Social Recreation-Programs focus on educating members 10
and older about gateway drugs by running trivia contests.
Arts and Crafts-Projects incorporate SMART Kids ideas
into after school art projects.
Athletics-Programs work the SMART Kids philosophy
into the game schedules for the 6-9 year olds by using
athletics to help them learn.
Education-Homework Help incorporates
SMART Moves by using the internet to research statistics
and drug cases involving youth and stressing the importance of education.
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