Snapshot 110
Using a Sports-Based Curriculum and College Athlete Volunteers to Re-Imagine Health Education and P.E. for Middle School Students
Presenters: Asia Horne and Darien Thomas
Grassroots Health (GrassrootsHealth.us) is an innovative, youth-led nonprofit organization that provides sports-based health promotion programs during middle school P.E. classes. By using kinesthetic learning methods, its model combines movement with learning and thereby reduces the common challenge that schools face in carving out the time and space necessary for both P.E. and health education. Grassroots Health’s model also places teams of 5 trained college athletes as facilitators of the curriculum in each of its partner classrooms, enabling youth to build relationships with local trusted adult role models over the program’s 10 weekly sessions. Our proposed poster will highlight how Grassroots Health is re-imagining mental, nutritional, and sexual health education in our partner middle schools. We will present our current reach and impact, as well as our plans for future expansion and how attendees can get involved.