NCHPAD: Building Healthy Communities Part 2

I am excited to be bringing you a new episode of What's New in Adapted Physical Education (APE). This episode is the second part of a two part series that focuses 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 episode focuses specifically on (a) whether people with disabilities can be healthy, (b) archiving adaptions in our field (grades), and (c) how we can use research in our field and how we can help researchers.