Let’s Move! Blue Springs

Let's Move

Check out these FREE and low cost children and family activities that are part of Let’s Move! Saturdays around Blue Springs!

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  • Fox 4 News - June 2011 (video of Summit 3)
  • Blue Springs Magazine - Spring/Summer 2011 (cover, page 3)
  • Let’s Move! Blue Springs kickoff - Mar ‘11 KC Star photo, article
  • Publicity on National Let’s Move! Blog.

    Blue Springs has the opportunity to change the future of our community by impacting the health of our citizens.  According to the 2010 Surgeon General’s report, two-third of adults and nearly one in three children are overweight or obese.  The impact that food and fitness lifestyle choices have on our health is evident with increasing incidents of diabetes, heart disease, stroke and other chronic diseases.  

    We’ve taken the first step.  The City of Blue Springs has been designated a Let’s Move! city.  The goals are focused on reducing the risk of obesity in early childhood, making health food affordable and accessible, providing health food in schools and increasing physical activity. 

    The good news is the resources exist.  Using ideas from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), we have a foundation to assess resources and address any health service gaps that may exist in our community. 

    The second tool is citizen-led summits, similar to those that helped develop the Dog Park at Grounds Park and the Disc Golf Course at Wilbur Young Park.  Facilitated by StandUp Blue Springs, we will use citizen-led summits to review successful, existing programs and services which could be expanded. We will generate new ideas for successfully meeting the four goals of the Let’s Move! initiative.  Even more importantly, we will ask the citizens who participate in these summits to help us implement the ideas they generated.  We will help them develop action plans, identify potential partners both in city government and within the community who can assist in implementation, and find the resources to see their ideas through to a completed project that will impact our entire city.