Community Impacts on Physical Activity
Research Team

You Did It! THANK YOU for participating in Stay Active. This is the final week of our program so this will be the final week you will receive a newsletter and text messages from us. We hope you enjoyed your time and hope you continue to use what you learned to Stay Active in 2021! Social support and being active as a family Who is your support network? This program has focused on family support, but it is equally important to have support from outside your family as well. H

Problem solving In the course of everyday life, you’re going to experience lots of decisions or situations that make being active more difficult. You’ll need good problem-solving skills to find solutions to these situations. Everyone uses problem solving skills every day without even realizing it. People deal with all types of problems, both big and small. When you have problems come up, we want to teach you a strategy to help to solve these problems. We use the acronym SOCS

Screen time recommendations and health risks So far, we have mainly focused on promoting physical activity, but we haven’t addressed the other end of the spectrum: “sedentary” activities. Sedentary activities include activities like watching TV, using the computer, or playing with other electronics (videos games or phones). These activities involve sitting or lying down without any extra physical effort. Too much sedentary time can lead to poor health, so it’s important to mi