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PRESS RELEASE

The Youth Empowerment Services 1515 Richmond Way Suite 32


Los Angeles, CA 94532 http://www.YES.org


Release No. 0365.01 Audrey Poindexter
Apoindexter0001@email.vccs.edu
437.552.4272

Ashley Alphin
Ala2946@email.vccs.edu
437.552.4273

Kate Dean
Ktd2968@email.vccs.edu
437.552.4274

Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Announces education Workshop Focused on
Childhood Obesity and the Correlation of the Lack of Physical Activity and Mental Health.

The YMCA and Rockbridge County Community Services Board announce a new educational
workshop, called YES (The Youth Empowerment Services). The workshop will help school
administration and parents work together to encourage healthy, nutritional, and physically active
lifestyles to promote healthy, productive children with positive self-esteem while eradicating
negative mental behaviors.

YES empowers and educates families, communities, and children in identifying negative
behaviors, mental, physical, and emotional, that are results of obesity. YES is focuses on health
and wellness, and helps define obesity and its patterns in school age children and identifies
health consequences, physical and mental.

This workshop is a step in the right direction for the community due to the rate of obesity
among children consistently rising. said Jeff Black, YMCA trainer. Joe Smith, Director of the
Rockbridge Area Community Services Board, stated The availability of this new information
has worked in numerous other cities and look forward to implementing the program in this
county.

The instruction in nutrition development alone is beneficial in addressing healthy caloric intake,
balanced diet choices and how to make healthy food decisions. This establishes the foundation
for physical activity, which leads to a positive body image and the reduction of negative mental
behaviors.


The topics include defining obesity, its causes and the physical and mental effects on children
and interventions. The health benefits of the Yes workshop are lifelong.

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