The Center For Kids FIRST
In Sports, Health & Education, founded by Regis Tremblay and
Jerry Stitt, is
a national effort to prepare all children for active, healthy, and meaningful
lives. By placing the needs of children FIRST,
we can better prepare them to become self-reliant, confident, and healthy.
It is one of the few grassroots organizations
using comprehensive school-based intervention strategies to combat obesity
and chronic disease.
Instead of top-down unfunded mandates, we use
a grassroots approach to empower the school community. We believe we can
make a difference by getting and keeping kids active, and helping them
make healthy food choices. Kids FIRST
programs also involve educating parents, teachers, and coaches so that we
can effectively change the culture.