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Free Program Helping Churches Get Healthier Enrolling Now
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Faith, Activity, and Nutrition (FAN) is a FREE program that helps churches create healthier environments and congregations. FAN is now enrolling for the April online training session. Training includes engaging lessons and resources that will enable churches nationwide to become healthier during the ongoing pandemic and beyond.
Physical activity and healthy eating are known to prevent and treat common conditions including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, cancer, and obesity. The FAN program works to prevent and address these common health conditions impacting congregations. It is effective and is included in the National Cancer Institute’s Evidence-Based Cancer Control Programs.
The goal of FAN is to help churches build physical activity and healthy eating into its regular practices. FAN supports churches to:
- Increase opportunities for physical activity and healthy eating
- Create guidelines for physical activity and healthy eating
- Engage leaders in FAN goals and support their health
- Share health messages with members
FAN is offered through a research study at the University of South Carolina Prevention Research Center. The deadline to enroll for the next session is April 1, 2022, and participation in FAN is open to churches across the U.S. To learn more or to sign up, visit http://prevention.sph.sc.edu/projects/fantraining.htm or contact the FAN team at FAN@sc.edu or 877-971-5259 (toll-free).
About the Prevention Research Center & FAN:
The University of South Carolina Prevention Research Center (UofSC PRC) is one of 26 Prevention Research Centers funded by the CDC and is based in the Arnold School of Public Health. UofSC PRC promotes physical activity and healthy eating through community-engaged intervention, training, dissemination, and applied prevention research.
FAN is UofSC PRC’s core research project and was developed through a partnership between researchers in South Carolina and leaders from the 7th Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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