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The Bank of America Foundation has awarded the YMCA of South Palm Beach County a $10,000 grant to support its youth obesity prevention initiative, High Voltage Kids.
Jorene Jameson, YMCA spokeswoman, said High Voltage Kids is a youth program focused on obesity prevention among school age children, ages 5 to 12. The program incorporates a research-based curriculum that is recognized nationally as a practice in helping children gain an understanding of calorie intake and activity output.
Another component of the program is a pedometer challenge, during which all children in the after-school programs walk or run for fun and log the number of steps that they take each day.
Jameson said the program would be implemented in the YMCA’s after school programs in the fall at both the Peter Blum Family YMCA of Boca Raton and the De-Vos Blum Family YMCA of Boynton Beach.
For information about the YMCA’s after school programs, call the Peter Blum Family YMCA at 561-395-9622 or the DeVos Blum Family YMCA at 561-738-9622 or visit www.ymcaspbc.org.
Mike Rothman can be reached at mkrothman@tribune.com.