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Theory of change

One of the problems my internship is trying to solve is childhood obesity and to focus on a healthy lifestyle. I believe we achieve this by providing healthy food options for dinner and snack. For dinner we provide food that is USDA approved. And the same thing with snack.
We also provides opportunities for exercise throughout week. On an average day we go to the gym and the kids play with balls and play tag. Once a week YMCA on the move comes and spends an hour with the kids. The goal of YMCA on the move is to engage the youth and families of Providence in health and wellness activities that increase their physical fitness and help them combat the growing epidemic of childhood obesity and other related illnesses while having fun in a safe, supervised environment.
I think these are great ways to promote healthy living for youth.

The theory of change is to solve childhood obesity and to achieve a healthy lifestyle.

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  1. Victoria RestlerFebruary 14, 2018 at 11:14 AM

    Thanks for your post Kristen. This is a clear link between the social problem (childhood obesity) and the programming (healthy snacks and exercise). To take it deeper, you could explore WHY childhood obesity is such a big problem and HOW the Y believes these interventions help (helping youth develop skills/ routines/ experience with healthy food and exercises that they will carry on throughout their lives)?

    Best
    Victoria

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  2. Emily TwitchellFebruary 21, 2018 at 1:12 PM

    I love how you thought about " solve is childhood obesity and to focus on a healthy lifestyle.", because I decide to choose the children being starving at snack time. So it was so weird when I look at your to see what other people wrote when I was done with my post. This is why we said the every YMCA is different, because we are taking about two different thing but the same part of the mission statement.

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  3. UnknownFebruary 22, 2018 at 7:24 AM

    I enjoyed reading your post. There is a lot of thought and care put into your internship and I like how the focus of your org. is changing the environment of the youth to reach your goal instead of changing the youth to fit the environment.

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