Every Step Counts

1. EVERY STEP COUNTS
What is it?
Why do we or should we care?

2. CAROL M. WHITE FEDERAL GRANT
OR THE P.E.P.
(PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR PROGRESS)
GRANT
 To increase physical activity before, during and
after school
 To improve nutrition education
 To provide professional development for physical
educators

3. Why would the federal government grant almost
one million dollars ($$$) to Traverse City, Michigan??

4. Michigan is the second fattest state in the nation
Michigan children show elevated levels of high blood
pressure, cholesterol, Type II diabetes
Traverse City Area Schools showed 40% of K-6
students to be obese or at risk of being obese,
according to BMI
40% of students randomly selected for cardio scores
K-12 were below grade level

5. For the first time in the history of the USA, our children’s
life expectancy is lower than their ours….and…
Of children born in the year 2000 or after, 1 out of 3 will
be diabetic; one out of two African-Americans will be
diabetic

7. It’s really about one thing: COMMUNITY

8. Through the grant, we have the opportunity to:
 Provide additional opportunities for physical activities
before, during and after the school day (“Lunch Bunch” at
the elem level, NAP at the secondary, intramurals)
 The ability to open facilities on Saturdays and offer
programming to both students and families
 Equipment (climbing walls, heart rate monitors)
 Professional development for PE staff
 Partner with groups within the community who have
a common vision: Let’s Get Moving; YMCA; Great Lakes Children’s
Museum; Michigan Land Use Institute; Munson Hospital

9. Ultimately, this is not about TCAPS or Munson or
Rotary or the Chamber. This is about all of us, coming together,
to leave a legacy for our children of healthy lifestyle.
We owe them that.

10. What can you do about nutrition?
• Consider a comprehensive school health program
and join Team Nutrition
• Have someone on staff do HSAT training and
administer it in your building
• Work with food service to evaluate menu and
nutritional components
• Be involved in wellness policy
• Consider healthy snack policy, removal of pop,
water breaks, water sales
• Cook training
• Farm to School Program

11. What existing programs do you
have to build on?
• Scheduling
• Lunch, after school, seminars, resource,
study halls, intramurals, before school,
Saturdays
• Community programs needing facilities
• Food service/nurses/nutritionists
• Train after/before school staff through MSU
extension services

12. What Models Can You Access?
• Dr. Pat Cooper—Memphis, Mississippi
• 80% free and reduced lunch
• Poor, black district
• Low test scores
• Comprehensive school health program
totally turned schools around, including test
scores, but, more importantly, student
health

13. Physical Activity as the Target
for Prevention EffortsCVD
Obesity Cancer
Arthritis Diabetes
Osteo- Kidney
porosis Disease
Injury Violence
Prevention Prevention
Mental
Health

14. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults
BRFSS, 1990
(*BMI ≥ 30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’4” woman)
No Data <10% 10%-14% 15-19% 20%
Source: Mokdad A H, et al. J Am Med Assoc 1999; 282:16.

15. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults
BRFSS, 1991
(*BMI ≥ 30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’4” woman)
No Data <10% 10%-14% 15-19% 20%
Source: Mokdad A H, et al. J Am Med Assoc 1999; 282:16.

16. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults
BRFSS, 1992
(*BMI ≥ 30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’4” woman)
No Data <10% 10%-14% 15-19% 20%
Source: Mokdad A H, et al. J Am Med Assoc 1999; 282:16.

17. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults
BRFSS, 1994
(*BMI ≥ 30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’4” woman)
No Data <10% 10%-14% 15-19% 20%
Source: Mokdad A H, et al. J Am Med Assoc 1999; 282:16.

18. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults
BRFSS, 1995
(*BMI ≥ 30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’4” woman)
No Data <10% 10%-14% 15-19% 20%
Source: Mokdad A H, et al. J Am Med Assoc 1999; 282:16.

19. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults
BRFSS, 1996
(*BMI ≥ 30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’4” woman)
No Data <10% 10%-14% 15-19% 20%
Source: Mokdad A H, et al. J Am Med Assoc 1999; 282:16.

20. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults
BRFSS, 1997
(*BMI ≥ 30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’4” woman)
No Data <10% 10%-14% 15-19% 20%
Source: Mokdad A H, et al. J Am Med Assoc 1999; 282:16.

21. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults
BRFSS, 1998
(*BMI ≥ 30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’4” woman)
No Data <10% 10%-14% 15-19% 20%
Source: Mokdad A H, et al. J Am Med Assoc 1999; 282:16.

22. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults
BRFSS, 1999
(*BMI ≥ 30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’4” woman)
No Data <10% 10%-14% 15-19% 20%
Source: Mokdad A H, et al. J Am Med Assoc 2000; 284:13.

23. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults
BRFSS, 2000
(*BMI ≥ 30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’4” woman)
No Data <10% 10%-14% 15-19% 20%
Source: Mokdad A H, et al. J Am Med Assoc 2001; 286:10.

24. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults
BRFSS, 2001
(*BMI ≥ 30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’4” woman)
Source: Mokdad A H, et al. J Am Med Assoc 1999;282:16, 2001;286:10.

25. Increasing Obesity
Among Children
%
Troiano, RP & Flegal. (1998). Overweight Children and Adolescents: Description, Epidemiology, and Demographics. Pedriatrics, 10 (3), 497-504.

26. Overweight Children and Adolescents
• More likely to become
overweight or obese adults.

27. Increasing Obesity
Among Children
%
Troiano, RP & Flegal. (1998). Overweight Children and Adolescents: Description, Epidemiology, and Demographics. Pedriatrics, 10 (3), 497-504.

28. Health Risks Associated with Obesity
• Premature death
• Type 2 diabetes
• Heart disease
• Stroke
• Gallbladder disease
• Osteoarthritis
• Sleep apnea
• Asthma
• Breathing problems
• High cholesterol
• Surgical risk
• Cancer (endometrial, colon, kidney,
gallbladder, post-menopausal breast cancer)

29. Consider This
•Health care costs are currently astoundingly
high.
•Imagine the economic reality when our
overweight, inactive adolescents reach the
workplace.

30. We need to be in this together…
The whole community
Every Step Counts
Let’s Get Moving
Munson, TCAPS, Rotary, Chamber
Families

33. Saturday Program

34. Saturday Nutrition

35. Nutrition Education

37. Winter Family Fun

39. What has been done?
• Through ESC grant programming, physical
activity has been increased at all levels
through NAP, Lunch Bunch, extended day
programming, intramurals, special events
• K-6 BMI (Body Mass Index) has decreased,
an almost unheard of phenomena!!
• Cardiorespiratory fitness testing has
improved at almost every grade level

40. •NAP at all secondary buildings has been successful, particularly at
those schools with closed campus. West Senior High has recorded
numbers of over 400 students per day participating in extreme 4
square, basketball, dancedance revolution, swing dance and ping
pong.
• Training has been done with extended day programs and summer
camp programs, providing increased activity and encouraging
creative play.
• Special events have included Rene Bibaub, world champion
jump roper, who has performed at many area elementaries,
high schools, Rotary and Chamber gatherings, as well as providing
Inservice training for TCAPS PE staff; Rob Sweetgall,
walking guru, who did a community walk, made appearances at
schools and promoted the use of pedometers and walking as an
affordable fitness activity; Friday Night Live appearances and
Promotion through jumprope marathon and ddr

41. Professional Development
• Physical educators have a captive audience.
Quality PE CAN and DOES make a
difference in fitness and lifestyle choices.
• What was your experience with PE?
• High school graduation requirements will
seriously impact PE. Will our district and
state DEMAND that health is a priority?

42. How About Nutrition?
• TCAPS has hired a part-time nutritionist who has
provided nutrition analysis of all TCAPS lunches
available on TCAPS website
• Many changes have been made within the lunch
program, including whole wheat wraps, breads,
pizza crusts, improved salad bars with mixed
greens and veggies
• Farm-to-School program has been implemented at
several sites

43. Nutrition
• TCAPS food service has created the first
online bid service in the state for local
farmers to try to purchase and use local,
fresh food in school cafeterias
• Vending machines have been stocked with
water and flavored waters, reducing the
opportunities for purchasing soda

44. Stuffee Program
• In partnership with the Great Lakes
Children Museum, ESC purchased literacy
bags and offered this program to every first
grade class in the TCAPS district
• Program teaches about internal organs,
healthy food choices, simple recipes for
families to use and asks child to write about
their experience with Stuffee

45. How to Sustain ESC?
• The grant will end as
of September 30
• What can this
community do to
sustain the good of the
grant?
• Do we value our
health and that of our
children enough to
figure this out?

46. If you don’t take care of your body, where will you live?
Once you lose your health, nothing else matters.

47. Here is the challenge!
• Our children are dying from obesity, lack of
activity, lack of creative play!
• Our state needs to wake up and do something for
the children!
• The Traverse City community MUST step up and
provide a model community in regards to healthy
lifestyle. We must DEMAND that health is a
priority in the schools and community. We have
the chance. We have the choice. We have the
responsibility.