About Us
The Urban Aboriginal Healthy Living Programme (UAHLP) can help you achieve your lifestyle goals!
This programme is taking major strides to help community members to increase their physical activity levels and their cardio-vascular health; to become smoke-free; to increase knowledge of nutrition, healthy eating practices and weight management; and, to enhance the leadership ability of our youth.
While the UAHLP offers great benefits for the community as a whole, it also maintains four key target groups for special programming:
- - Children
- - Youth
- - Women
- - Seniors and Disabled Adults
What to expect from the programme?
Children
Introducing daily physical activity and
sport participation as a healthy lifestyle habit early on is
important for childhood development. Also, being an active
child sets the stage for increased physical actiity and
self-esteem in adulthood.
Did you know? Sport participation by children in Canada is
on the decline?
Increasing your daily active time is fun and great for your
health! Children aged 7-12 years can look forward to various
sports and recreation activities that will strengthen the
heart, help to achieve and maintain healthy weight, and
enhance healthy growth and development.
Youth
Television, computers and video games can
keep youth very busy however these are not physically active
sources of entertainment.
Physical activity is important for healthy physical growth,
development, and healthy weight maintenance.
Did you know? 41% of urban Aboriginal youth in Canada are
overweight or obese. This has contributed to the rise of
early onset type 2 diabetes.
Increasing your physical activity by 30 minutes a day is a
great start to healthier activity habits which will carry
throughout your life.
Women
A woman may fill various care-giving roles
throughout her life: mother, daughter, sister, partner,
friend, teacher and more. Unfortunately, demanding work
and/or family schedules often prevents women from taking
time to care for their own well-being
Making the time to prepare healthy meals and engaging in
regular physical activity is important to your health. A
healthier you makes a healthier family, community, and
workplace.
Women can look forward to regular ongoing "Women Only"
programmes such as yoga and aerobics.
These programmes will provide women with the opportunity to
connect with other women and to engage in some
distraction-free "me" time, and to make exercise a healthy
lifestyle habit.
Seniors and Disabled Adults
It is never too late to increase your
physical activity level and improve your healthy lifestyle
choices. In fact, active living is an important part of
aging well and disability management.
Regular activity can help you maintain your health and
independence and prevent disabling conditions later on.
Seniors and Disabled Adults can look forward to a variety of
programmes designed to help build strength, flexibility, and
endurance - supporting our seniors and disabled adults in
living healthier lives.