Scheduled for April 12, the Big House 5K race is helping to raise money for Project Healthy Schools (PHS). A portion of every entry fee will go to support six charities, including PHS. Not a runner? Support PHS by making a donation on the Big House 5K website. Find out more.
In early November, PHS traveled to the U.P. to begin implementing PHS in middle schools in Manistique and Marquette as part of the Building Healthy Communities partnership supported by the Michigan Department of Community Health. Despite over 35 inches of snowfall during the week, the trip was a success!
Governor Snyder participated in a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan press event to announce the 58 new Building Healthy Communities schools starting the program this fall, including 13 that will implement Building Healthy Communities: Engaging middle schools through Project Healthy Schools Read the press release.
Read the press release about a partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and the Michigan Department of Community Health called Building Healthy Communities: Engaging middle schools through Project Healthy Schools that will make it possible for five additional middle schools to apply for the PHS program.
Project Healthy Schools (PHS) provides a school-based
program to reduce childhood obesity and its long-term health risks. Focusing primarily on sixth grade students, PHS aims to
stem the tide of this epidemic by:
Healthy youth who continue to practice healthy lifestyles will grow into healthy adults with fewer risk factors for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other chronic illness. Project Healthy Schools is one of the few school-based programs that have demonstrated significant improvements in both health behavior and cardiovascular risk factors, such as reductions in:
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