Three Faculties Will Win a $100,000 DON’T QUIT! Health Middle
Vermont Enterprise Journal Governor Phil Scott and Jake “Physique by Jake” Steinfeld, Chairman of the Nationwide Basis for Governors’ Health Councils (NFGFC), introduced right now that NFGFC has chosen the State of Vermont for its 2023 DON’T QUIT! Campaigns. To assist reverse rising traits in psychological sickness and childhood weight problems, the NFGFC will present a state-of-the-art DON’T QUIT! Health Middle to a few elementary/center faculties. Functions for faculties excited about receiving a health middle might be accepted beginning right now till Sunday, March 26, 2023.
Faculties can go to https://natgovfit.org/apply-now/, then click on in your state button to obtain the quick utility. The applying is simple and the NFGFC needs to listen to from as many colleges as attainable. They’re asking faculties to submit a brief video expressing why they deserve a brand new health middle and what they plan to do with it.
“For the final 40 years, I’ve led the cost concerning the significance of bodily exercise as a option to fight childhood weight problems. However the advantages do not cease there. Train has additionally been confirmed to offer a optimistic impact on a toddler’s psychological well being as nicely. Our children are our most treasured useful resource and by offering them with a powerful basis in well being and health, we might be serving to them excel past their wildest desires,” stated Jake Steinfeld. “It is inspiring to see elected leaders like Governor Phil Scott champion the DON’T QUIT! imaginative and prescient by leaping onboard and welcoming us into the good state of Vermont.”
“I’ve all the time believed it is vital to encourage our youth to be energetic and embrace wholesome life, which have had numerous optimistic impacts,” stated Governor Scott. “Common train has so many advantages, together with bettering psychological well being. I am thrilled that Jake Steinfeld is bringing his DON’T QUIT! Marketing campaign to Vermont, and excited for the chance it presents. Elementary and center faculties now have a possibility to win a brand new DON’T QUIT! Health Middle. I encourage all of our faculties to use for this excellent present that may assist our college students keep match and wholesome.”
“We have delivered DON’T QUIT! Health Facilities to 42 states plus Washington, DC, and this yr we’re including 4 extra states to our DON’T QUIT! household together with Vermont,” acknowledged Steinfeld. “I’ve witnessed first hand the optimistic affect our health facilities have on college students and communities. Once you present faculties with instruments and inspiration, you may be amazed by the adjustments that happen. Not solely are we seeing elevated tutorial scores, however we’re additionally seeing vanity skyrocket.”
The NFGFC can have gifted health facilities to all 50 states throughout the subsequent few years. Every health middle is financed by way of public/personal partnerships with firms like The Coca-Cola Firm, Elevance Well being Basis, Wheels Up and Nike, and doesn’t depend on taxpayer {dollars} or state funding. Health Provide supplies the health gear. The muse’s objective is to construct a nation of the fittest, healthiest children on this planet.
Bodily exercise and train are proven to assist forestall and deal with greater than 40 continual illnesses, enhance particular person well being and high quality of life, and scale back well being care prices. In faculties, research present that bodily exercise improves tutorial achievement, will increase confidence and vanity, reduces self-discipline issues, cuts absenteeism, and fosters higher interpersonal relationships.
For extra details about the NFGFC or to obtain an utility, go to www.natgovfit.org.
About The Nationwide Basis for Governors’ Health Councils
The Nationwide Basis for Governors’ Health Councils (NFGFC) seeks to encourage and reward innovation within the area of youth health by awarding health facilities to colleges that use new and distinctive strategies to advertise pupil bodily exercise and wellness. The NFGFC envisions a health middle in each faculty within the US, serving to to construct a nation that—by way of innovation and a “DON’T QUIT!” perspective—boasts the fittest children on this planet. Since 2012, the NFGFC has delivered health facilities to 42 states. In 2023, NFGFC will present health facilities to Vermont, Wyoming, Iowa, & Montana
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