{"id":7825,"date":"2015-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/togethercounts.com\/fire-up-your-feet\/"},"modified":"2015-04-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T00:00:00","slug":"fire-up-your-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/togethercounts.com\/es\/fire-up-your-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Up Your Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/togethercounts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Fire-Up-FB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4856\" src=\"https:\/\/togethercounts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Fire-Up-FB.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Up FB\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/togethercounts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Fire-Up-FB.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/togethercounts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Fire-Up-FB-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/togethercounts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Fire-Up-FB-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/togethercounts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Fire-Up-FB-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obesity prevention has been identified by PTA members as a top priority for health and safety.\u00a0 School nutrition has long been a key component to PTA\u2019s history, yet PTAs are relied on to raise much needed funds for schools often through food-based methods. As a member of the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation and a Together Counts\u2122 Ambassador, we promote energy balance and encourage schools to make healthy changes having to do with more activity to balance calories consumed. This year schools began implementing \u201cSmart Snacks\u201d that ensure all food sold to kids during the school day is healthy.\u00a0 PTAs and families play a critical role in supporting the new nutrition guidelines as any fundraisers, school stores or vending machines running during the school day must meet these new standards.\u00a0 PTAs and school groups therefore needed a healthy, easy choice for school fundraisers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireupyourfeet.org\">Fire Up Your Feet<\/a>, a program launched in partnership between National PTA, Safe Routes to School National Partnership and Kaiser Permanente as part of First Lady Michelle Obama\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letsmoveschools.org\/\">Let\u2019s Move Active Schools<\/a> program, gives families, students and schools tools to create fun, active lifestyles that inspire our children and their families and schools to be healthy and physically active by walking before, during and after school.\u00a0 The program, available to any elementary and middle school (grades k-8) nationally, offers an online activity tracker and school fundraising component that supports annual PTA annual fun runs or walkathons, with 75 percent of the money raised going back to the PTA or school, which is more than the typical amount of 60percent.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/fireupyourfeet.org\/about\/challenge-award-criteria-and-process\">Fire Up Your Feet Activity Challenge<\/a> award program, which has awarded more than $115,000 and more than 1,100 K-8 schools, is also available in sponsored regions.<\/p>\n<p>For many years now, Jenkins Middle School PTA has supported students, families, and staff by raising funds.\u00a0 They decided that Fire Up Your Feet was a wonderful way to engage students, staff, families, and the community in increasing health and wellness. They kicked off their <a href=\"http:\/\/fireupyourfeet.org\/about\/challenge-award-criteria-and-process\">Fire Up Your Feet Activity Challenge<\/a> with a before school walk around their track, with 100 parents, staff, and students energetically completing laps while logging their hours for the challenge. As a result, they received a $200 award.\u00a0 Bathgate Elementary PTA proudly walked to school on October 8 (Walk to School Day) with almost 85 percent of the students participating.\u00a0 They used their activity challenge award to purchase additional PE equipment and provide CPR and First Aid training.\u00a0 Rainbow Elementary PTA used Fire Up Your Feet to support their \u201cWalk Around the World Challenge, where families logged in almost 2,300 miles and over 79,000 minutes of exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Parents are a key part to the coordinated approach to child health.\u00a0 Through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireupyourfeet.org\">Fire Up Your Feet<\/a> National PTA is giving families the tools they need to model positive health behaviors, meet their required amount of daily physically active and burn energy together.\u00a0 And, it helps PTAs fully supporting the positive changes happening at school while still meeting the obligations of bringing much needed funding into the school.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this program, we\u2019re proud to announce year three of our partnership with Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation and their Together Counts program to bring schools an incentive toward healthy lifestyles through the Healthy Lifestyles: Energy Balance 101 grant.\u00a0 The application is open now, with a deadline of June 19, 2015.\u00a0 Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pta.org\/awards\">pta.org\/awards<\/a> to find out how your PTA can get involved.<\/p>\n<p><em>Heather Parker, MS, CHES is the Senior Manager for Health and Safety at National PTA, where she serves as in-house expert on child health and safety and develops new programs, materials and resources to support PTA\u2019s health and safety efforts.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity prevention has been identified by PTA members as a top priority for health and safety.\u00a0 School nutrition has long been a key component to PTA\u2019s history, yet PTAs are [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[174,445,165,362,213,176,446,217],"class_list":["post-7825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-living","tag-exercise","tag-fire-up-your-feet","tag-healthy","tag-parent-teacher-association","tag-pta","tag-school","tag-students","tag-walk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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