Youth Fitness Collaborative

"Regular physical activity can help children and adolescents improve cardiorespiratory fitness, build strong bones and muscles, control weight, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, and reduce the risk of developing health conditions such as: Heart disease. Cancer. Type 2 diabetes." ~ Center for Disease Control There shouldn't be barriers to this kind of benefit. We're here to overcome those barriers. https://www.cdc.gov/healthyschoo/physicalactivity/facts.htm

"Experts say that youth today face more severe challenges than ever before, with school violence, deterioration of structure in families, substance abuse, electronic addiction, and pressure from the media. Teens who have trouble adapting and overcoming these stressors can turn to destructive or unhealthy behaviors. The result of unhealthy behaviors can be detrimental to their futures. These behaviors can derail a once aspiring young person and send them down a risky path." Here's a program whose footsteps we hope to follow https://www.wtoc.com//at-risk-youth-turned-national-weigh/

Inspirational figures in fitness https://melaninislife.com/blogs/lifestyle/black-fitness

Resources, support, personalized instruction, working with existing succesful student athletes. We will be mirroring this framework to make an impact! https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/02/at-risk-students