Helping At-Risk Youth Through Physical Fitness Programming

Collingwood, developer of the First Choice program, explains how a physical training program can help young people learn to choose concrete goals, develop discipline, and become responsible members of society. In addition, he provides descriptions of specific programs, results and conclusions drawn from them, and the actual delivery of a program in terms of five components: health screening and fitness assessment; structured exercise classes; educational programming; teaching values and motivating behavior change; and support programming for adherence. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.