CYCLE KIDS INC
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Mission Statement
The CYCLE Kids program integrates bike riding and safety skills with nutrition education and mentoring. We invest in children to help them develop positive, safe and active lifelong habits, achieve academic success, and improve their social skills.
About This Cause
CYCLE Kids was established to address the physical and emotional problems facing today’s under-active, often over-weight children. In our society, children often choose technology over physical activity; computer games replace ball games, texting replaces personal interaction, and oversized portions of fast food replace home-cooked meals. However, this problem is not new, and continues to receive attention on local and national levels. Resources enabling families to live healthier lifestyles are available to those who seek it, but this is not enough to implement real change in our society. As it becomes less and less natural for children to pursue active and healthy lifestyles on their own, they need guidance and tools to help them change their behavior. It has become the mission of schools to make sure their students have the information they need to make healthy living a fun and easy option. CYCLE Kids helps schools meet this goal by providing them with a program that teaches kids a fun and active skill, which affects all aspects of life and learning. By giving schools the bikes, helmets, textbooks, and teaching curriculum, schools have everything they need to help kids develop healthy behaviors. The children learn how to ride a bike safely, and they learn practical nutrition skills that build upon nutrition knowledge they already have. They go through the program with their peers, building confidence and important social skills, and mentorships develop with the teacher, community police officers, and volunteers who participate in teaching the program. Teamed with the fun of riding bikes, nutrition lessons complementing the cycling theme instill in children an understanding of the importance of healthy eating. Participation in the CYCLE Kids program also increases confidence and self-esteem, and exposes the children to mentors who have the ability to positively impact their lives. The CYCLE Kids program gets kids riding outside during their physical education classes, it has them learning about bike safety and nutrition, and it builds supportive relationships among the kids and adults who participate in the program.