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Move Your Mood
Move Your Mood (MYM) is a research-based program that promotes physical activity and healthy lifestyle practices to improve the mental and physical well-being of participants. The MYM program provides opportunities for participants to experience how to move their bodies, fuel their bodies, practice mindfulness, and build positive coping strategies. The goal is that participants have fun in the program, gain confidence and competence to be active and healthy for life.
The original MYM Program:
The program aims to allow youth to experience a variety of fun ways to move and be healthy in their own community. We partner with many local agencies to run the program to expose youth to fun activities they can continue in the future. Check the service listing for the location closest to you for dates, times, and contact information.
Other applications of the program:
Other applications of the program:
Family Challenge
The Family MYM Challenge is an opportunity for families to try different ways to be healthy together and create positive connections. The challenge provides different ideas on how families can move together, cook and eat together, practice mindfulness and build positive coping strategies, as well as learn about the 40 developmental assets to help their kids grow up great. The challenge was offered virtually during the pandemic and will move forward with both individual community challenges and an opportunity for all Central Alberta families to join.
School Challenge
The school challenge runs during Mental Health Awareness week in May. The challenge encourages all schools K-12 across Central Zone to take part. The goal is to increase awareness on the importance of mental health and how to improve mental health through healthy lifestyles practices. The school is encouraged to have the students read daily messages to the entire school and share one way to be incorporate a healthy choice each day. Students can use the ideas provided or get creative and make their own.
Community
The MYM program also aims at being involved in the community to help share the MYM message with other programs and projects that link the benefits of physical activity and healthy lifestyles to mental health. This includes community presentations, displays and projects like; Move Your Mood School Fun Run, Community Better ParticipACTION challenge, and the spray painted games for families to be active in local parks.
MHCB Program Manager Notes:
Move Your Mood (MYM) is a low cost program. The manual is provided for free when you take the training through an Alberta Health Services facilitator. Food and materials for the program are additional costs. The MYM Network does offer program grants to offset some of the higher costs of running the program.
MYM is an Albertan resource.
MYM is research-based.
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