Living Healthy, Living Life
Focus:
Promoting healthy lifestyles through exercise, smart food choices, education, and so much more. Healthy lifestyles are not just about being healthy physically, but also emotionally. This initiative can focus on emphasizing how one’s overall health can be improved with the right choices and simple necessities such as sleep and having a more structured and organized way of living organization. It will also be important to educate spread awareness to the community and our members about unhealthy illnesses and how to prevent them. The main goal of this choice will be to educate and assist children and adults to change unhealthy habits and replace them with a healthy lifestyle.
Service Project Possibilities:
Promoting healthy lifestyles through exercise, smart food choices, education, and so much more. Healthy lifestyles are not just about being healthy physically, but also emotionally. This initiative can focus on emphasizing how one’s overall health can be improved with the right choices and simple necessities such as sleep and having a more structured and organized way of living organization. It will also be important to educate spread awareness to the community and our members about unhealthy illnesses and how to prevent them. The main goal of this choice will be to educate and assist children and adults to change unhealthy habits and replace them with a healthy lifestyle.
Service Project Possibilities:
- Workshops
- Circle K’ers can lead workshops focusing on promoting a healthy lifestyle. Possible topics could include: eating healthy, stress management, exercise, study skills, etc.
- Circle K’ers can lead workshops focusing on promoting a healthy lifestyle. Possible topics could include: eating healthy, stress management, exercise, study skills, etc.
- Care Packages
- Clubs can collect items and assemble care packages to be donated. These can include food, clothes, towels, toiletries, etc.
- Clubs can collect items and assemble care packages to be donated. These can include food, clothes, towels, toiletries, etc.
- Blanket Making
- No-sew blankets are an easy project and can be donated to nursing homes, shelters, or group homes.
- No-sew blankets are an easy project and can be donated to nursing homes, shelters, or group homes.
- Walks/Runs
- Circle K’ers can volunteer at events which promote a healthy lifestyle.
- The American Heart Walk, sponsored by the American Heart Association, which promotes physical activity and heart-healthy living .
- Step Out, Walk to Stop Diabetes, sponsored by the American Diabetes Association, aims to help raise awareness, promote healthy living, and raise money to fund educational outreach, advocacy efforts, and critical research that will ultimately stop diabetes once and for all .
- Out of the Darkness Community Walk, sponsored by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, which aims to increase national awareness about depression and suicide, advocate for mental health issues, and assist survivors of suicide loss.
- Circle K’ers can volunteer at events which promote a healthy lifestyle.
- Coach/Volunteer for a Sports Team for Kids
- In doing so, you can reinforce the benefits of exercise and staying healthy.
- In doing so, you can reinforce the benefits of exercise and staying healthy.
- Volunteer in a Classroom
- You can volunteer to read to kids at an elementary school about health, safety, etc.
- You can volunteer to read to kids at an elementary school about health, safety, etc.
- Health Fairs
- Volunteer at health fairs to promote a healthy lifestyle.
- Have different booths for kids with fun and educational games.
- Volunteer at health fairs to promote a healthy lifestyle.
- Create/Distribute a Healthy Cookbook to Low-Income Households
- Meal Delivery
- Clubs can volunteer with Meals on Wheels to prepare and deliver meals to seniors with limited mobility (http://www.mowaa.org/).
- Clubs can volunteer with Meals on Wheels to prepare and deliver meals to seniors with limited mobility (http://www.mowaa.org/).
