Programs
Whether you’re taking your first actions toward being active or just need some inspiration to liven up your healthy cooking routine, these programs deliver the goods.
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Texas Outdoor Family Program
The Texas Outdoor Family program is offered at many Texas state parks to give visitors hands-on experience with basic outdoor skills. This site provides a list of times and locations where visitors can learn activities that are of interest to their family.
Habits to Help your Heart
Tips and lessons are provided on how you can make your own heart work better and avoid serious heart problems. Tips include: “Work on one habit at a time, get your friends involved and keep each other motivated.”
Active Lifestyle Program
The Active Lifestyle program shows you how to make a commitment to staying active and how to stick to it. The program helps you set realistic goals to encourage fitness for a lifetime and provides you a personal activity log to guide you every step of the way.
BAM! – Body and Mind
The Centers for Disease Control offers instructions for creating your own customized fitness and activity calendar. You can choose from over 100 activities to add to your calendar and you can get advice on ways to stay active. Share stories with other real kids who are trying to improve their body and minds.
42eXplore
The 42eXplore project has compiled all the information and links you could ever need to learn about bicycles and biking. Topics range from bicycle safety to how to ride by following the links to the web sites listed.
Junior Health Educator
The Junior Health Educator training and certificate program was co-created by ACTIVE Life Movement and the Coastal Area Health Education Center and is offered to anybody under the age of 18 years. This simple and easy-to-complete, free, online training equips youth with the tools, skills, and knowledge needed to become grass roots advocates for health among their peers and in their community.
Besides being an excellent resume builder, by becoming a Junior Health Educator, certified participants will experience what it’s like to work in the field of health promotion, begin developing essential individual skills and begin networking for higher education and a career. The training can be taken by creating a Team AL profile and visiting the Train tab through the "My Account" link.
