NCHPAD: Building Healthy Communities Part 1

I am excited to be bringing you a new episode of What's New in Adapted Physical Education (APE). This episode focused on NCHPAD: Building Healthy Communities, which is a public health practice and resource center on health promotion for people with disabilities.  NCHPAD has a multitude of resources for all types of adapted physical activity professionals, including APE teachers. For this episode we were able to do a in-person interview with two staff members at NCHPAD. The two interviewees were Dr. Jim Rimmer, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the director of the UAB-Lakeshore Foundation Research Collaborative and Director of NCHPAD; and Alex Martinez, the Expert Inclusion Specialist for NCHPAD. My hopes from this episode are to share resources from NCHPAD to my listeners/readers, please go to their website to see all of the resources that they offer! 

This podcast is part one of a two part episode. Part one focuses specifically on (a) what NCPHAD is and how it came to be, (b) how to navigate their website, and (c) some of the different resources they have available and how they developed them. 



Checkout some of the great resources NCHPAD offers for inclusion in physical activity & youth with disability below: 

Quarterly Digest Educators

The National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD)’s Quarterly Digest, our new quarterly supplement designed especially for educators who are seeking for information to make their classes inclusive for students with disabilities.

To subscribe to NCHPAD's target audience quarterly digest, please provide your area of interest and email address by clicking here or copying and pasting the following URL into your browser: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KMH8YHH.

You can access April’s Quarterly Digest by clicking on the following link https://conta.cc/2FgWdqS

Discover Inclusive Physical Education: A Guidebook for Educators

The goal of the Discover Inclusive Physical education Guidebook is to provide you with a “playbook” to help you create such an environment for all of your students, regardless of ability level, by providing appropriate assessment tools, games, and inclusion strategies to help you improve your teaching methods and implementation processes.https://www.nchpad.org/1402/6261/Discover~Inclusive~Physical~Education

Discover Inclusive Playgrounds

This guide provides information that will help you create learning environments at playgrounds from both design and usage perspectives. The information is specific and tailored to teachers, administrators, parents, caregivers, recreation specialists, and health professionals that utilize playground settings for emotional, cognitive, and physical child development.

https://www.nchpad.org/1616/6650/Discover~Inclusive~Playgrounds

Discover Inclusive School Wellness

The goal of the Guide to Inclusive School Physical Activity Programs is to promote inclusion of children and youth with disabilities in school physical activity programs.

https://www.nchpad.org/fppics/NCHPAD_Discover%20Inclusive%20School%20Wellness(1).pdf

Activity and Adaptation Cards

These cards offer information, tips, and pictures on how to adapt sports, activities, games, and equipment.  On the front of the card, you can find a brief introduction, description, and history of the sport.  On the back of the card, you can find information and pictures on how to adapt each sport.

https://www.nchpad.org/1667/6755/Activity~and~Adaptation~Cards