The Foundation for Active Healthy Kids is committed to increasing physical activity in all children and youth by providing visionary leadership, serving as a knowledge broker, and supporting effective programs.
The Foundation's
actions and relations with others will be driven by the core values that
shape its identity. These values are:
- Fun:
to develop and support safe, enjoyable physical activity opportunities
as an essential component of healthy growth and development in all children
and youth.
- Personal
Excellence: to illustrate how
physical activity initiatives can provide children and youth with a
unique opportunity to realize their talents and maximize their potential.
- Family
& Community: to demonstrate
how children, youth, families and the greater community measurably benefit
from the availability of accessible, high-quality physical activity
opportunities.
- Partnership
& Collaboration: to engage
the collective effort of governments, communities, businesses, institutions,
families and individuals to ensure that all children and youth are able
to develop active, healthy lifestyles.
- Equity:
to commit and focus our energies on the identification and removal of
physical, economic and social barriers to the participation of all children
and youth in physical activity.
- Child-Youth Focus: to ensure that all our initiatives are based upon direct input from children and youth, and that they are actively involved in shaping the programs we develop to serve their needs.
