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About Us
Activate America Goal
The Goal of Activate America is to help Americans live longer, better and healthier lives by focusing on community based solutions to combat obesity and chronic disease.
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Activate Bismarck Mandan Goals
- Activate Bismarck-Mandan improves the health and fitness of our community's youth and families regardless of age or ability.
- Activate Bismarck-Mandan has collaborative partners in the community in order to fulfill its mission, deliver its programs and fund its opportunities.
- Activate Bismarck-Mandan program is easy to access, deliver and use by the youth and families of our communities.
- Activate Bismarck-Mandan positively impacts the general public regardless of age or ability.
- Activate Bismarck-Mandan celebrates the successes of all its participants.
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Mission Statement
Activate Bismarck-Mandan is the community wide leader in an initiative to create a fit, healthy community through the collaborative efforts of area organizations and companies.
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History and Background
Discussions between the mayor, county health officials and the YMCA started in the summer of 2004 with the goal of reducing youth obesity and improving the health of our community. From these discussions, an initiative took shape and Activate Bismarck- Mandan began. A collaborative group was formed to address this initiative and dialogue and planning with a vision committee has been ongoing. The initiative has focused into three main components (website development; school education program; and community activities including The Fitness Challenge, events, and celebrations) with additional efforts on effective delivery and assessment strategies.
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Key Values/Components
• Fitness/Activity
• Nutrition
• Self Esteem
• Family Strengthening
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Program Overview
We will build fit kids and fit families through our program, which includes:
- Community Wide Fitness Challenge. The fitness challenge will be open to all members of our community and will focus on being active, proper nutrition and reducing TV/video time. Celebrations will be planned as milestones and those that complete the challenge will receive a special t-shirt. We will rally the community around the fitness challenge and educate and move people to action, and strengthen families in the process.
- School Education Program. Activate Bismarck-Mandan, with the help of the University of Mary's Leadership Academy, will partner with three Bismarck Public Schools and one Mandan Public School to deliver a school education program this year. This student team will develop a cooperative plan with the school to include health and wellness curriculum, fun events and ideas to activate the students. site.
- Community Events and Celebrations. Events will be held for the community to get our youth and families active. Celebrations will be planned for participants to encourage and reward those that are changing their lives.
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