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Happy Healthy
and Active Children

Happy Healthy and Active Children (Glade Sunde Børn i Bevægelse) is a social and health-promoting initiative for children at risk in residential areas. The purpose of the project is to promote a healthy and active everyday life among 3-9 year old children and their families. The initiative focuses on socializing and outdoor life around play, food and nature.  A wide range of fun, active and exciting outdoor activities will be carried out in kindergartens, pre-schools, after-school programs and local communities. The activities strengthen the childrens' and parents' movement skills, food skills, nature skills, social skills and health skills. The institutions' employees will also acquire skills to anchor and further develop the activities.

Visit Happy Healthy and Active Children's website here:

www.gladesundeboern.com

Happy Healthy and Active Children (Glade Sunde Børn i Bevægelse) involves approx. 1,200 children spread acorss seven kindergartens and three primary schools in north-west Copenhagen. The kindergartens are organizationally rooted in the integrated daycare centers in Brønshøj-Vanløse Cluster A. The public schools are Husum School, Korsager School and Tingbjerg School. In the schools, the induction classes and after-school arrangements are involved.


The institutions involved are all anchored in the Child and Youth Administration in the Municipality of Copenhagen. Other partners include Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, the Copenhagen Hospitality College, the Danish Society for Nature Conservation, Gerlev Center for Play and Exercise, The Social Development Plan in Tingbjerg and Utterslevhuse.

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Acitivites included in the project are continuously developed in co-creation with children, parents and staff. Everyone contributes to the activities' idea development, planning, implementation and evaluation. This ensures local ownership, relevance and anchoring of the activities in the institutions' annual cycle and the everyday life of families with children. Experienced professionals working across relevant fields such as food, movement, nature, and health, will assist by teaching, facilitating and supervising activities. 

The project is evaluated at process and impact level using qualitative and quantitative research methods. First of all, changes in the children's physical activity over time are measured in an objective and quantitative way. In addition, changes in the children's and parents' knowledge, skills, attitudes and behavior in various areas are measured.

 

Data is collected systematically throughout the project period and are used to prepare a model for anchoring and scaling the initiative to other residential areas in Denmark. The project receives financial support from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for a three-year period from 2023-2025.

If you, or your association, company, club or institution would like to hear more or be involved in the project, contact project coordinator Niklas Lynge Villersholt on the email: 

niklas.lynge.villersholt@regionh.dk

Photographer: Mikal Schlosser

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