YMCA Healthy Kids® Day - April 12, 2008*

Celebrate Healthy Kids, Families and Your Healthy Family Home with the YMCA

YMCA Healthy Kids Day is a free, fun-filled day of activities designed to promote healthy kids and families in spirit, mind and body. YMCA Healthy Kids Day celebrates making fitness fun, and introduces kids to an array of YMCA programs and tools that teach healthy behaviors and healthy ways to play-an essential lesson in learning how to take care of themselves throughout their lifetimes.

Click here for a list of YMCAs hosting Healthy Kids events.

Launching this year at YMCA Healthy Kids Day is Healthy Family Home, a program to help families in any community incorporate healthier habits at home.  Funded by Eli Lilly and Company, Healthy Family Home focuses on practical, achievable lifestyle changes in the areas of family life where small changes can have the biggest impact—playing every day, eating healthy and family time. Pick up a free Healthy Family Home Starter Kit at your YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day event, or visit www.healthyfamilyhome.org beginning April 12 for a Starter Kit and additional information to help you feel supported in making important changes with your family.

YMCA Healthy Kids Day is part of Activate America®, an innovative public health initiative of the YMCA movement that is making healthy living a reality for millions of Americans. By celebrating health and wellness of young people through a variety of fun, physical activities, YMCA Healthy Kids Day encourages kids and families nationwide to stay active, connected and healthy.

The YMCA Healthy Kids Day event is celebrated annually. Activities at participating YMCAs will vary and may include games, sports, health screenings and more.

*Some YMCAs may have different event dates. Please call your YMCA or visit their Web site for more information.

YMCA Healthy Kids Day is generously supported by: