Our Press Release:
Healthy Kids Day at the Garfield YMCA
VERTICES is partnering up with Garfield Health Department, the Garfield YMCA, and HARP of HUMC to bring a new event to the 2008 Healthy Kids Day. Healthy Kids Day is the nation’s largest health day for children and is part of YMCA Activate America, an initiative designed to help children and adults adopt and sustain health lifestyles. This year, Healthy Kids Day will occur on April 12, 2008 from 9:00am to 4:00pm at the Garfield YMCA Outwater Lane facility. The day will be full of great activities for children and their families.
The Extreme Nintendo Wii Tournament is designed to get children involved with physical activities without the stress of performing outside the comfort of the indoors. Activities such as these allow children to use technology to get fit. The purpose of bringing Wii to Garfield’s children is to see how well the reception of technology is amongst children and to find out whether it is a good way to get children to embrace exercise, introducing a new trend of health-gaming. Garfield Fitness Unity Nutrition (F.U.N) program is already utilizing interactive mapping technology to promote children to participate outdoor activities collecting community asset mapping and healthy food choices and this technological approach to fitness can prove to be a great addition to the Garfield F.U.N. program
The schedule of activities is as follows:
9:00am – 10:00am Family Aerobics
10:00am – 12:00pm Nintendo Wii Play
10:00am – 10:45am Healthy Cooking Class
10:45am – 11:15am Belated Easter Egg Hunt
11:15am – 12:00pm Arts & Crafts Project
12:00pm – 12:45pm HEALTHY LUNCH
12:45pm – 2:00pm Nintendo Wii Tournament
2:00Pm – 4:00pm Family Swim Open Pool
Please join us for the Extreme Nintendo Wii Challenge Tournament as we kick off our first project about using video games to promote healthy lifestyles. The address for Garfield YMCA is: 33 Outwater Ln, Garfield, NJ 07026.
If you have any questions or would like further information please call Dr. Wansoo Im at 609-651-1352 or email at wim@vertices.com. To find out more please visit www.garfieldfun.org or healthgame.wordpress.com
