Healthy Living Club Challenge 2022-2023
“Healthy Communitites, Healthy Future”
Healthy Living is one of the five program priorities in Iowa 4-H Youth Development. We pledge our “health to better living” and in order to learn, practice, and advocate for healthy choices we are challenging clubs, learning communities, volunteers, staff, and families to practice healthy choices during their meetings, events and daily lives.
The 4-H Healthy Living Club Challenge promotes simple modifications and educational opportunities during monthly club/group/team gatherings to explore our well-being while also building skills to help others through community wellness.
Each month, groups will be challenged to incorporate healthy options such as…
- Offering and promoting water as a beverage
- Featuring a fruit and/or vegetable as a snack option
- Incorporating time for a movement-based activity
- Completing the monthly community health equity activity
The Challenge
Each month, your club can earn 50 points for completing each of the staple challenges of promoting healthy choices in a club meeting: unsweetened beverages, nutrition, and physical activity.
There will also be a featured monthly activity focused on community health and learning how access to healthy choices and environments can be a challenge. This bonus activity is worth 100 points.
A monthly tracker will be posted and emailed out to club leaders/wellness officers to submit your club/group’s achievements for each month. These are due on the 10th of the following month and then a running total of points will be shared out by the 15th.
A monthly tracker will be posted and emailed out to club leaders to submit your club/group’s achievements for each month. These are due on the 10th of the following month and then a running total of points will be shared out by the 15th.
Registration
Now is the time to sign up your 4-H club or group to participate in our Healthy Living Club Challenge!
Register during the month of September to receive a club challenge kit with resources to implement the challenges this year. Clubs can join at any time, but the first challenge will begin in October!