Impact
In only three years, our Coach for Kids program has:
- Dramatically changed recess for 10,000 New York City public school children
- Placed 10 trained coaches on playgrounds as energetic and encouraging mentors for the children
- Taught basic skills, organized sports and sportsmanship to these children every day
- Made physical fitness a goal
- Convinced many teachers that a child who has had sufficient exercise is better able to focus and learn in the classroom
- Begun to demonstrate that a comprehensive approach to obesity – physical fitness along with good nutrition – can change habits and attitudes where they begin, in childhood
- Served as a model for schools nationwide
