CHEFS! program: teaching young people healthy eating and cooking skills
The Healthy Eating Physical Activity Coalition of New Brunswick (HEPAC) has developed the CHEFS! toolkit to help organizations, teachers, parents and other facilitators teach nutrition and cooking...
View ArticleCasitas de Colores: affordable apartments designed to encourage healthy...
This month, Veille Action is pleased to present three projects that won excellence awards from the Center for Active Design. This week: the Casitas de Colores affordable housing project, located in...
View ArticleBronx community campus designed to encourage healthy lifestyle habits
This month, Veille Action is pleased to present three projects that won excellence awards from the Center for Active Design. This week: an audacious project that has transformed a poor section of the...
View ArticleBring Back Play, a new campaign from ParticipACTION
ParticipACTION is launching a new national media marketing campaign to stop the decline in active playtime for children and teenagers.
View ArticleBOKS, a new before-school physical activity program, launched in Canada
The Government of Canada has joined forces with the Reebok Canada Fitness Foundation and the Canadian Football League (CFL) to introduce the before-school physical activity program called Build Our...
View ArticleBike Buddies introduces people to urban cycling
The city of Sydney in Australia has set up the Bike Buddies program, which matches aspiring urban cyclists with experienced ones free of charge.
View ArticleAn active transportation program for all
Already introduced in 375 Québec schools, the program, À pied, à vélo, ville active, will be available in all public primary schools and high schools, as well as in all of the province’s towns by 2015.
View ArticleAll kids in standing classrooms in ten years to combat sedentary behaviour
Fighting sedentary behaviour by getting all U.S. public school students at a standing desk in ten years is the objective of the recently established not-for-profit organization StandUpKids.
View ArticleAlberta program helps schools develop healthy school action plans
The Healthy Active School Symposia (HASS) program in Alberta, which aims to give school communities tools to develop action plans to support healthy active lifestyles, is producing good results.
View ArticleAffordable municipal and regional infrastructures encourage cycling
It is possible for municipalities to invest in cycling-friendly infrastructures without breaking the bank.
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