Focusing our efforts on preventing childhood obesity and creating healthier lifestyles for all children, the Alliance has designated the month of September as Go Healthy Month. Our empowerME movement - 1 million strong - will reach out this month to expand and inspire more tweens and teens to eat better, move more and wipe out America’s obesity epidemic.
10 Simple Ways for Youth to Get Involved:
JOIN the Movement!
1. Visit empowerme2b.org and sign up for news, events and exclusive empowerME opportunities.
2. Change your Facebook status to “Your Name joined the empowerME Movement: empowerme2b.org.” Encourage your Facebook friends to do the same.
3. Friend empowerME on MySpace and Facebook.
4. Send a tweet to invite your friends to “Join the Movement at empowerme2b.org.”
INSPIRE with Your Story!
5. Share
6. Take pictures and videos of how you’re making your school or community a healthier place and send them to empowerme@healthiergeneration.org
7. Send a letter to the editor of your local paper—raise your voice and let your community know how passionate you are about wiping out childhood obesity.
ORGANIZE or ATTEND a Go Healthy Month Event!
8. Attend or volunteer at a Go Healthy Month event. Check out the events calendar.
9. Organize a Youth-Hosted Forum and raise your voice. Download the Playbook.
10. Host an empowerME t-shirt day at your school or organization. Visit the Clinton Foundation Store to purchase t-shirts.
JOIN the Movement!
ONE:
Put an empowerME web banner on your site, blog or social networking page. If your organization has a Facebook group page, newsletter or website, send your network a message about Go Healthy Month:
Language targeted to adults:
September is Go Healthy Month! Each September the Alliance for a Healthier Generation's empowerME Movement engages, educates and activates kids across the nation to motivate themselves, their families, and friends to eat better and move more. Activities include media promotions, Youth-Hosted Forums, community celebrations and Recess ROCKS! – our signature field-day, community event for family fun. Learn more about joining the empowerME Movement and Go Healthy Month activities at empowerme2b.org.
Language targeted to kids:
Celebrate Go Healthy Month in September.
JOIN the Movement at empowerme2b.org
INSPIRE with your story
ORGANIZE or attend a Go Healthy Month event in your community
INSPIRE with Your Story
TWO:
Encourage youth to share their own story at empowerme2b.org.
ORGANIZE or ATTEND a Go Healthy Month Event in Your Community
THREE:
Work in partnership with youth to organize a Youth-Hosted Forum or Recess ROCKS! Event - download Playbooks for ideas and support.
FOUR:
Distribute empowerME materials at schools, community centers or events.
Download empowerME Flyers - distribute empowerME flyers to your family, friends and community. Give away empowerME Postcards - empower kids to make a commitment to their health.
In addition, a limited number of hard copy materials are available at no cost on a first come, first served basis—send your request to empowerme@healthiergeneration.org.
FIVE:
Add your local Go Healthy Month event to the empowerme2b.org event list so we can spread the news - contact us at empowerme@healthiergeneration.org to tell us about the details.
