Overcoming Childhood Obesity “Helping Youth Build A Healthier America through Multi-Disciplined Sports™ DR. TEKEMIA DORSEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CEO, TRI CLUB ADVISOR & COACH Successful Program Implementation with Baltimore City Parks & Recreations Gardenville Rec Center “Summer Program” In-house confidential document not to be shared or cited C o p y r i g h t 2 0 1 6 I n t e r n a t i o n a l A s s o c i a t i o n o f B l a c k T r i a t h l e t e s 1
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Overcoming Childhood Obesity “Helping Youth Build A Healthier America through Multi-Disciplined Sports™DR. TEKEMIA DORSEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CEO, TRI CLUB ADVISOR & COACH
Successful Program Implementation withBaltimore City Parks &Recreations GardenvilleRec Center “Summer Program”
In-house confidential document not to be shared or cited
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CITY YOUTH” & CHILDHOOD OBESITY
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FACTS ABOUT “INNER CITY YOUTH” & CHILDHOOD OBESITY A few of the challenges our children face:
Inner-city physicians find even greater challenges in attempting to address the obesity epidemic among their young patients.
In some local communities the childhood obesity rate is as high as 40 percent
U.S. childhood obesity rates are 3x greater than in 1980*
Obesity is the second leading behavioral contributor to death in the U.S.*
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FACTS ABOUT “INNER CITY YOUTH” & CHILDHOOD OBESITY A few of the challenges our children face:
A lack of nutritious food during childhood can have lasting physical effects
That’s no way to be a child! Can we count on you to help keep our kids healthy?
"More than 50% of the kids in my practice are obese, and the parents don't perceive it as a problem," said Dr. Delgado.
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Part A: Educational Program
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IABT Junior Club Members
Members of IABT Junior Club taken a pic and ready to lead PART 1: Education Workshop on the topic of overcoming Childhood obesity through multi-disciplined sportsWith the youth of Baltimore City Recreations & Parks Summer Program at Garden Recreation Center.
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Although they prepared all summer on public speaking, writing and understanding the topic from their own perspective during the introduction they were still nervous. Some more than others. Nevertheless, they made it through.
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Part 1: Education Workshop
As a part of our educational program, we invited Another organization to join in whose focus remains on creative writing and creative expression. She workedwith the Junior Club Members on creative writing all summer and then assisted in helping the audience members to openup about topics such as obesity, peer pressure, bullying, etc. What is most Important about this portion of the education workshop is that the youth & adults were provided strategies to assist in their concerns they could apply right away.
Creative Writing Expert
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Audience members were engaged in the topic and discussion of overcoming childhood obesity(pros, cons, etc).
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Creative Writing ExpertParticipants engaged in a creative expression exercise where they learn strategies on how to deal with peerpressure of obesity, peer pressure, bullying, lack of self esteem, self confidence, self awareness, etc.
It was a great moment to see the youth and adults to think through the process and to realize they always had the answer of knowing who to do and who to talk to in negative cases.
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IABT’s Junior Club Members explaining theirExperience of engaging in multi-disciplinedSports. Club Members experiences vary fromNewbie’s to veterans of 2-3 years.
Multi-disciplined sports are triathlons and duathlons. Club Members are sharing their training experience, leadership experience,their support of one another, their strengths andtheir weaknesses, etc. Despite all they learnmuch about self and during training and events, there isn’t a focus on race, religion, race, etcbut more on individuality with support of their team along the way.
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Junior Club Member Ismail sharing with the audience how his club is more like FAMILY than club members. The FAMILY feeling is what remains the most important aspect of the sport for him.
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Junior Club Member Heaven explaining to the audience her commitment to training and what her training schedule versus competition looks like. She also talk about how this experience had help her to understand self better.
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Syd has experience peer pressure such as bullying, not being accepted, teasing, etc simply he is obesity for his age and height. Syd shares with his peers in the audience that no matter how hardit is, he still has found a way to look at life on the positive and being introduced to multi-disciplined sports has enhanced his sense of self. He is now running on his own while learning how to swim and cycle.
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Part B: Training and Event #PREPARATION FIRST
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Sponors and Swag Bag Preparation
Sponsors
1. Hammer Nutrition2. Nuun3. USA Triathlon 4. Joe Mann’s Awards5. IABT6. IABT Junior Multi Sport Club
Swag Bags & Drinks were prepared by Junior Club Members
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Part B: Training and Event
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Indoor Duathlon Relay
Duathlons are an example of Multi-disciplined sports. NormallyDuathlons are held outside howeverDue to heat index that day, the event had to be inside. Duathlons are run, bike, run events. Two disciplines in one event. ……
Youth & Staff were formed in teams of 2 to 3 persons. They had to work together using team work, effective communication, critical thinking, etc attributes for success.
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Teams were mixed with males and females, adult and youth. The youth were excited to take part in the event with one another and especially their Summer Staff Members.
Youth were placed on teams regardless of height, size, athletic-ability level, geographic background, socio-economic status, grade level, etc.
Indoor Duathlon Relay
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Peer Leadership Members of the Junior Club Programs are seasoned on someone handing them their medals at the endOf events however this was their first time actually handing medals to finishers at an event. This was an exciting moment for them.
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The mazing part for these Junior Club Members remains the fact they had just competed in their 1st
USAT Youth*Junior National Championships in West Chester, OH. They were also wearing their Championship Finishers Medals and USAT gear to increase awareness to the participants of the opportunities that exist through multi-disciplined sports. Opportunities such as scholarship, college, the Olympics, etc.
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Peer Leadership The moment the youth (participants and peer leaders were waiting for. After the Duathlon Relay was over,the participants (youth and adults) patiently awaited the medal ceremony. They deserved it.
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excitement in the building. A greater sense of self awareness, self confidence, and self esteem.
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For adults and youth; those receiving and Those delivering. A great sense of unity and accomplishment….
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Staff was elated to received their medals as well. The youth clapped for her while she received it. It was a joyous moment for all.
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The positive feeling was felt by all regardless of height, weight, ethnicity, athletic-ability,GPA, geographic location, etc.
This remains the beauty of multi-disciplined sports, it is a universal langue spoken by all regardless of……
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CERTIFICATES of Program Completion
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Program Completion
Each youth that took part in Both parts of the program Part 1: Education WorkshopPart 2: Multi-Sport EventReceived a Certificate of Recognition that demonstrated the training they took part in through our organization.
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POST EVENT Festivities
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We wanted to give them the full experience of the event, so we made sure they received their Swag Bags and post race food. This is the highlight of the experience for participants after engaging in a multi-disciplined sport.
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Youth in the summer program was not use to someone highlighting and spotlighting their accomplishments. While they had achieved their goal, They were now being exposed to being take care of versus taking care of someone else.
Additionally, the Junior Club Members were in the position of making someone feel happy as People do for them in events. It was all around great experience.
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humble themselves and cooperated after a great event.
This program had a positive impact on the males in the group as well as females.
Engaging in more than one discipline in any single event was not as easy as they had thought but now the seed has been planted.
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Junior Club Members had a POW WOW session at the end with the participants, recapping the importance of alternative ways to fight childhood obesity through multi-disciplined sports.
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Program SummaryPeer Leadership RECAP
The audience remained attentive and engaged even after a long day. It was a great way to end an AWESOME program experience.
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They all have new stories and experiences to share with one another mainly because they have all experienced a new healthy way of movement and living through multi-disciplined sports.
This remains the beauty of multi-disciplined sports, it is a universal langue spoken by all regardless of……
COMMUNITIES UNITED THROUGH MULTI-DISCIPLINED SPORTS
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Junior Club Members taking a photo with Parks and Recreation Staff at the end of the program. They were happy! We were happy!The youth were happy!
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INDIVIDUAL LEADERSHIP DEMONSTRATED
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Individual Leadership Emerged
This young lady was not as receptive during the event as she could have been however by the end she was all hands on deck assisting in the clean up, pack up, etc without being asked.
For some reason in the beginning she had a barrier blocking her success however some where along the way, her mindset changed. We were introducing her to a concept and movement she was not use to.
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Overcoming Childhood Obesity “Helping Youth Build A Healthier America through Multi-Disciplined Sports™
PROGRAM GRADUATES
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WE DELIVERED A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM
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POWERFUL
GAME CHANGING MOMENT
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HIS STORY
This young man shared with me during the educational workshop how he was being bullied and not liked at school or even during the summer program. Attempts were made to identify role models within their setting for everyone. For him particularly the person he chose was being mean to him. I gave him my card and told him I would see him again however he could call me at any time.
A few weeks lapsed in between Part 1 and Part 2 of the program. However when I saw him during the Part 2, his situation had not changed. Not deliberately he was placed on the team with the young man, he favored but did not favor him. Despite the past, they worked together as a team during the event. The other young made gave him a hug at the end. It made his day. What made his day more was the receiving of his 1st medal in his life as he is not in a situation to play sports of be a part of a team.
He was introduced to a program that educated him on how to overcoming childhood obesity such as good eating habits, strategies to overcome bullying and peer pressure but also ways to contribute to a healthy lifestyle. As a result, his self confidence, self esteem, and self awareness increase. We accomplished our mission, goal and program objectives as an organization.
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Program Objectives Successfully Met
The objectives of the program were to Introduce Youth to multi-disciplined sports Encourage youth to become and stay active Motivate youth to live a healthier lifestyle Combat childhood obesity by making better choices Increase self-esteem, self-confidence and self-
awareness through education and athletic opportunities