Bright Horizons Teaches Disabled Students More Than Just Gardening
Behind Janel Rowe’s classroom is a garden. Rowe, a teacher at Bright Horizons School in Pompano Beach, has been running the garden since the beginning of the year as part of Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Healthy Schools Program (HSP). Bright Horizons is a Broward County Public School, but for the most severe handicapped students – a mix of 140 Autistic, intellectually disabled, medically fragile and physically disabled kids. “The garden provides our students with pre-vocational, vocational, entrepreneurial, academic and therapeutic opportunities,” Rowe says. Students range from Kindergarten through age 22. Rowe has been teaching at Bright Horizons since 2004. This year she ...
TOUCH and Partners Join Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Day
The 2nd annual Food Revolution Day is meant to raise the profile of food education as a key to transforming the lives of millions of people across the world. Created by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, the inaugural event last year was celebrated in 62 countries with more than 1,000 events globally. This year, FLIPANY (Florida Introduces Physical Activity and Nutrition to Youth) is planning a nutrition education, a cooking demonstration and fun nutrition-related activities and games for kids and families at the Dania Beach PATCH (People’s Access to Community Horticulture) on Saturday, May 18 from 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. FLIPANY ...
Earth Day Celebrations at PATCH
More than 200 children and adults came out to our Earth Day festivities at the Dania Beach PATCH and Sistrunk Farmers Market this weekend, planting sunflowers, making their healthy living pledge, and even releasing ladybugs into the garden. Alliance for a Healthier Generation had a pledge tree where kids can write down their healthy promise. Many kids pledged to drink more water, eat less candy, and even watch less TV. YMCA of Broward County showed kids how to get through a hula hoop without letting their hands go from their partners. Kids played fun, high-energy games for nearly two hours with the YMCA. Nova Southeastern ...
FAU Club Finds Over 5,000 Butts in an Hour
When Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus held “Butt Day” earlier this month, they invited Transforming Our Community’s Health (TOUCH) partner American Lung Association (ALA) to aid in a clean up. What they found was thousands of cigarette butts – more than 5,100 of them, actually. On April 3, FAU’s Exercise Science and Health Promotion Club (ESHP) hosted Butt Day – a day to learn about the dangers of tobacco products and increase awareness for the need of a university-wide tobacco-free policy. While FAU currently has designated smoking areas, they do not have a smoke-free campus policy in place. The butt ...
Active Livingand Healthy Eating
To ensure Broward County Residents, especially children, low-income, and those living in high-need communities have access to physical activity opportunities and healthy foods by improving nutrition quality and increasing physical activity opportunities throughout the community…
TobaccoFree Living
To target prevention and raise awareness of the effects of secondhand smoke exposure by supporting local efforts to increase the number of smoke-free parks, and public spaces, smoke-free campuses and smoke-free apartment and condominium buildings.
High Qualityand PreventativeServices
To encourage individuals and their health care providers to engage in preventative services by controlling high blood pressure and cholesterol by integrating proven intervention and improving outcomes of arthrities, asthma, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes through chronic disease self-management programs....
Healthy and SafePhysical Environment
To create healthy and safe places for Broward residents that are supportive of an active lifestyle by establishing “Complete Streets” community design standards to make streets safe for all users, including those who walk, ride bikes, and use public transportation.
