Learning Forum Fire Up Your Feet Spring Activity

Learning Forum: Fire Up Your Feet Spring Activity Challenge Sophia Mellow, Program Manager Fire Up Your Feet, Safe Routes to School National Partnership

About Fire Up Your Feet is a core program of the National Partnership, funded in large part through a grant from Kaiser Permanente that is aimed at encouraging families, students and schools to create active lifestyles that inspire our children to be healthy and physically active.

What is Fire Up Your Feet? A year-round resource to get kids active, healthy and focused An online healthy fundraising platform A bi-annual “Challenge” with an opportunity to win cash awards for tracking activity!

Today we’ll talk about Where is Fire Up Your Feet available? How is it going? Who can participate and why target schools? What does it take to get Fired Up? Is it difficult, what if there is trouble when tracking? Who is expected to track? How much time will this take? How much money can a school win?

Fire Up Your Feet Across our Regions Kaiser Permanente Sponsored Regions Activity Challenge • California • Colorado • Hawaii • Metro Atlanta • Mid Atlantic (MD, DC, VA) • Oregon • SW Washington Staff • Nor. Cal • So. Cal • Oregon (partner w BTA) • Virginia (consultant)

Highlights 1574 schools registered 42 % 83 % active schools are lower income more schools 62, 049 total participants 324 % more participants 65 % reported children increased physical activity during Fire Up Your Feet

Resources COLORADO Run Club Chinook Trail Elementary

Fall 2014 Success Award Totals City School Name Colorado Springs Chinook Trail Elementary Award Summary First Place Award Week 3 (Old Skool) Award Florence Fremont Middle Week 1 Award Canon City Lincoln Elementary Canon City Mc. Kinley Elementary Fire Up Your Walk to School Award $ 500. 00 Third Place Award Denver Montclair Elementary Week 2 Award $ 200. 00 $ 1, 150. 00 Littleton Peiffer Elementary People for Bikes Challenge Award Week 3 New School Award Third Place Award Lafayette Ryan Elementary Week 1 Award $ 200. 00 Loveland Van Buren Elementary $ 1, 000. 00 Canon City Washington Elementary Second Place Award Third Place Award Week 4 Award Colorado Total Award Amount $ 2, 150. 00 $ 200. 00 $ 600. 00 $ 6, 500. 00

Highlights 160 135 140 Highlights 120 100 • Since fall, activated schools more than doubled and registered schools increased 145%. • Community Benefit intern assistance provided on-the-ground additional communications and support. • New Partners: Increased support and interest from the Denver PTA. 11 new Denver schools registered. • Local Fire Up Your Feet television coverage. Fall 13 80 57 60 40 20 26 55 Spring 14 Fall 14 20 10 0 Activated Registered “There has been an overall awareness of fitness and a healthier lifestyle alike. The excitement that is evident among all involved has helped to improve school camaraderie and moral. ” - Soaring Eagles Elementary, Colorado

Why Schools? Place where kids spend most of their day School is a captive environment Where many kids get their daily nutrition and exercise One in five KP members spends the majority of each weekday at a school Our opportunity: 13, 000 schools in 750 districts within our service areas

Let’s Get Tracking and ready for the Spring Challenge!

$6, 000 available in 2015 Spring Challenge Awards: 1 1 3 1 1 2 1 $2, 000 first place award $1, 400 second place award $500 third place awards $500 LMAS award $100 small school or runner-up award $200 Week 1 Drawing: 3 -2 -1 Blastoff Award $100 Final Weekly Reflect and Reward Drawing

1. Register www. fireupyourfeet. org

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