Schools, families, and communities can work together to encourage active lifestyles. To achieve this objective, priority recommendations include adoption of school-based curricula and policies that provide quality, daily physical education for all students, encouragement of policies that provide K-12 students with opportunities for physical activity outside of formal PA classes, and provision of opportunities to replace sedentary behaviors, like TV watching.

The descriptions below illustrates what organizations and communities are doing to support priority recommendations to increase physical activity for children.



To promote limited television viewing in child care programs, a lesson plan was created to assist child care providers in implementing television viewing and physical activity policies at their facilities. The training includes information on why televison time should be limited for children and provides practical ideas on how to change daily routines. Resources are provided for the child care staff and parents of children served by child care.
Target audience: Child care providers in Washington state
Evaluation: Post intervention survey data is currently being collected. The results will be analyzed this summer.

Partners: Washington State Department of Health, Healthy Child Care Washington, Local Health Jurisdictions, UW Center for Public Health Nutrition

Lead agency role: Healthy Child Care Washington provides training, consultation and technical assistance to child care and early childhood providers through Child Care Health Consultants (CCHC) at each Local Health Jurisdiction in the state.
For more information:
Jan Gross Tel: 360-678-2162
Anne Lund
Web: http://depts.washington.edu/tvhealth/

This publication was supported by Grant/Cooperative Agreement Number U58/CCU019291 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC.


Last updated: March 28, 2006 15:24