PROGRAM SUMMARY

 

Bringing PFA to your community

We create exemplary schools of fitness in edcuation. The total funding required to sponsor a pilot and model school program is $17,800. This is inclusive of the entire two-year program with absolutely no hidden or additional costs. Our goal and driving purpose is to create new opportunities for kids to be active, fit and healthy as part of the everyday school experience. This is accomplished through educational programs and equipment, that will allow the school to successfully teach fitness education year after year. PFA will provide and implement the following components at the selected school(s) :

  1. State-of-the-art outdoor, above ground fitness equipment. UCLA specifically designed to address all the deficit areas where children fail fitness tests. The equipment becomes the permanent property of the school. Shipping to the school site is also provided.

  2. Indoor Mobile Fitness Equipment. Our Indoor fitness equipment is mobile as indoor facilities vary from school to school. Some have gyms, other use multipurpose rooms, and so on. Our indoor equipment is comprised of the following:
    1,500 Fitness Cups. These are fitness cups for explosive cardio, team work, challenge and cooperation with the kids. These cups are a PFA innovation and not for sale to the general public.
    A squad set of 3 lb weighted hoops. They are weighted, multicolored and feel like wetsuit material. Great for sustaining upper body strength training and cardio.
    Pacer cadence tape. This activity provides outstanding cardio training where kids shuttle run to a "beeped' cadence. As they increase their cardio, the beeps get faster to maintain challenge and increase levels.
    Support Materials. We provide unlimited certificates and ribbons. Each school receives a starter kit of 25 each and call in for supplies as needed. If they are running programming we will keep them in supplies.

  3. Curriculum. The curriculum is not to replace any existing curriculum. We have 2 curriculum. The first is the Broad Based ideal for classroom teachers and non phys ed teachers. Each teacher will receive a curriculum germane to the grade level students they teach. The second is our Core Curriculum. This book published in May of 2004 as been a huge hit with PE teachers. It was created by former Project Fit America grant recipients for future Project Fit America grant recipients. All curriculum is the permanent property of the school.

  4. Teacher training at the school site with specialists from PFA. This will be an all day-eight hour session to commence the program in year one and a second all day booster session in year two. If needed, a substitute teacher fee is paid to the school to add classroom support to the PE teacher(s) on the day of the in-service.

  5. Community Outreach. PFA will work with your sponsorship to create events and activities, which will engage the parents and community to focus on their own personal health and that of their children. This will include guest speakers at the school, a family lecture series on health topics, and support from media as well as civic and state leaders. Typically these events and activities include and highlight the sponsoring organization. We will host a community wide, opening day kick off and ribbon ceremony to dedicate the program and have the students provide a demonstration of their new found fitness skills and talents. Parents, teachers, civic and state leaders along with the media will take part in this host event.

PFA was established eighteen years ago and is unique in that all of our sponsors have been hospitals, healthcare agencies, and/or health conscious corporations.

The PFA program is designed to be a permanent program in each school developed, as the need to get children fit will never diminish. PFA will work with your sponsorship to fully train the teaching staff and fully integrate the program in the school curriculum. At the end of the program, the school will be able to run PFA without any outside intervention. Your school(s) will join the other 600+ PFA schools across the country that use PFA well beyond the two year sponsorship as part of their regular school day activities. Years from now, when you pass the by the school(s), you will see PFA in action.