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Health Promotion
Health Promotion VP: Lynn Everett, email lynneverett56@hotmail.com
Important documents regarding the Get Fit NC Challenge:
Get Fit Challenge Flyer
Distance Conversion
Shape Up For Life
Get Fit NC
Flat Stanley Gets Fit
Safe Surrender
Mean Chicks, Cliques and Dirty Tricks
Amazing Spiderman on Bullying Prevention
I Can Be Healthy Activity Book
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- Get Fit NC
- Partner with the NCMSA to promote fitness and proper nutrition
- Ideas For Your Alliance
- Form a walking or running club
- Have a local health club host an Alliance meeting
- Invite a yoga or pilates instructor to speak and demonstrate
- Plan a healthy nutrition and fitness day at your local school
- Encourage your schools to require PE for grades K-8
- Raise awareness by hosting a 5K fitness Walk/Run in your community
- GET FIT NC T-SHIRTS
 - Reinforce the message "GET FIT NC" with this cool t-shirt! Design on front only. Shirts are 50/50 cotton polyester for comfort and no shrinkage. Available in assorted adult and youth sizes. To order, call the NCMS Alliance office at 800-722-1350 or 919-833-3836, ext. 132.
- ADULT PRICE:
- $12 NCMSA member
- $15 non-member
- YOUTH PRICE
- $10 NCMSA member
- $13 non-member
- Flat Stanley Gets Fit !
- This project, based on the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown, is a story about a young boy who was flattened when a bulletin board fell on him. In our version, Flat Stanley has recently become overweight due to physical inactivity and poor eating habits, making it difficult for him to do some of the fun things that he used to enjoy.
(Official Flat Stanley web site is http://flatstanley.enoreo.on.ca/ )
- Objectives
- The purpose of this project is to address the issue of childhood obesity. This activity is designed to generate a dialogue about the benefits of regular exercise and proper nutrition.
- Materials
- Ideas
- Invite a nutritionist or pediatrician to talk to class
- Walk, run or jump rope to raise awareness
- Hold a Proper Nutrition Food Fair
- Distribute I Can Be Healthy Activity Books (link to order book from AMA Alliance here.)
- Distribute Snack Light Kits* (available January 2005)
- Procedure
- Introduce the book, Flat Stanley, and read chapters 1 and 2 to students.
- Read the story Flat Stanley Gets Fit
- Using the ideas listed above or your own information, discuss the benefits of exercise and proper nutrition
- Have students write a story about what Flat Stanley learned when he visited their class
- Mail, email or fax the project form to NCMSA so we can share your story with others on our website or in our newsletter
- Mail: NCMS Alliance, PO Box 27167, Raleigh, NC 27167-7167
- Web: www.ncmsalliance.org
- Fax: 919-833-2023
- Email: webmaster@ncmsalliance.org
- More information on Flat Stanley projects can be found at www.flatstanleyproject.com
- Safe Surrender
 - Safe Surrender for newborns is an effort to ensure effective implementation of the NC Infant Homicide Prevention Act. Under this law that went into effect in 2002, a newborn infant under 7 days old and unharmed can be surrendered to a responsible adult without fear of criminal prosecution.
Free posters and informational materials are available from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Resources. Go to www.safesurrender.net for more information. - Fact Sheet For Everyone
- Fact Sheet For Women In Crisis
- Flyer (from Safe Surrender web site. File is 11 mb in size so it will take some time to download)
- Mean Chicks, Cliques, and Dirty Tricks: A Real Girl's Guide to Getting Through the Day with Smarts and Style, by Erika V. Shearin Karres, Ed.D.
Erika V. Shearin Karres, Ed.D., is a school violence and education expert, lecturer, and columnist whose articles appear in the Durham, N.C., Herald-Sun. A public school teacher for thirty years, she is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor in Education at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has received numerous "Teacher of Excellence" awards and in 1996 was awarded North Carolina's highest civilian honor in the state. - Click here to order.
- Amazing Spiderman on Bullying Prevention
- Link to prevent child abuse web site and information on Spiderman comic
- The Amazing Spider-Man and The Brace, the villain he is fighting, discover that they share a past as victims of the same school bullies. They come to see how a witness who spoke out against SpiderMan's humiliation helped set the future Super Hero on a path of helping others, while The Brace, who had no ally, became a bully himself. Readers learn that while everyone is vulnerable to bullying, refusing to passively witness, or perpetuate, this type of abuse makes life better for all. Marvel and SpiderMan and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc., and are used with permission. Click on link above for more information.
- I Can Be Healthy Activity Book
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