Jays Care Foundation and Sobeys partnered together to create Sobeys Healthy Athlete Clinics to provide Challenger Baseball students and athletes with access to information and resources on nutrition and healthy eating.
What is a Sobeys Healthy Athlete Clinic?
Sobeys Healthy Athlete Clinic’s, facilitated by Jays Care staff, teach athletes about how to live long and healthy lives. These clinics are educational and play-based and work on developing students’ life skills, such as independence, that they can transition into their everyday lives. Students will be actively participate in activities that have been adapted to focus on healthy eating.
What are the goals of each clinic?
Each Sobeys Healthy Athlete Clinic has specific learning goals and ever clinic is designed to focus on the following four overarching goals:
Connection: Working with peers to enhance knowledge of healthy eating
Independence: Having the power to choose what food to eat to become a healthy student-athlete
Love of Self: Learning all of the ways nutrition can fuel a strong, healthy body
Courage: Developing the courage to try new, healthy foods
How long are the clinics?
A clinic can run between 30 minutes to 1.5 hrs (based on the educator’s discretion). The goal of the clinic is to have athlete leave feeling like they learned something new about healthy eating that will in turn, help them become a healthier athlete.
Below are the 5 clinics that we offer for the Sobeys Healthy Athlete Clinic:
1.
Myth Busters – breaking down common myths about food
2.
Food Groupies – introducing/reviewing groups of healthy foods
3.
Sugar Sugar – Introducing the effects of sugar on ones body
4.
Water, Water, Water – Teaching the importance of hydration
5.
Health Detectives – Demonstrating how to identify healthy food vs. unhealthy food
If your school/organization has completed 15 sessions of Challenger Baseball, that means you are eligible for a Sobeys Healthy Athlete Clinic! If you would like to apply for your school or organization to participate in a Sobeys Healthy Athlete Clinic please fill in the form below and send an email to
Rebecca.rulys@bluejays.com letting us know that you have applied!