Vibrant Faces

Vibrant FACES promotes physically active and healthy lifestyles for adolescent males and females.  Vibrant FACES was designed to help your students develop Fun, Active, Confident, Energetic Self-Images. 

This active learning program has been designed for students in grades seven and eight: a period when most of these students are experiencing physical, emotional and social changes. The program is designed to help girls and boys at this age develop an active healthy lifestyle because we know that physical activity and exercise can apply its effects on the brain by enhancing mood, releasing endorphins and stimulating nerve tissues, which are important during this developmental stage.

What Vibrant Faces offers you?

A Teacher's Guide that provides curriculum based lesson plans and themed activities addressing the physical, nutritional and emotional health of adolescents as well as valuable health, hygiene and body care content.

The Vibrant Faces Co-Ed program offers a variety of supplemental activities and quizzes as well as a permission letter  to support you in implementing this program.

What Vibrant Faces offers your student?

The program offers one workbook per student that provides guidelines to assist them in the development of active and healthy lifestyles skills.  Topics include becoming physically active, developing healthy eating habits, how to care for their bodies and how to achieve a healthy body/self image.  Order one book per student.

 Product samples for your students:

• Each female student receives one sample of Always® Infinity Pad, four Always® Flexi-Style Pantiliners, two Tampax® Pearl Tampons, one Tampax® Compak Pearl® Tampon and one Secret Antiperspirant.
   
• Each male student receives one Old Spice® Deodorant and one Gillette coupon.  

Vibrant Faces was written with, and for students to ensure that the program is relevant and meaningful to them. The program materials include a Teacher's Guide, a Student Guide and downloadable resources.

As with any school program/activity, you should consider your schools overarching protocol and guidelines concerning student safety before having students engage in any of the activities detailed in this program.
 

How does Vibrant Faces help your students?

The goal of this program is to help adolescents develop the skills they require to lead active, healthy lifestyles by:

• Becoming more physically active
• Developing healthy body images 
• Enhancing their self-esteem 

What will your students learn from Vibrant Faces?

On completion of this program, your students should:

• Be motivated and encouraged to begin and/or remain physically active
• Acquire the skills to overcome the barriers to becoming physically active
• Increase their self-esteem and develop a more positive self-image
• Manage time more effectively to become more physically active
• Develop healthier body images
• Understand the benefits of regular exercise in relation to menstrual health for girls
• Develop an understanding of emotional changes that take place during puberty and in doing so develop strategies for taking charge of their feelings
• Acquire the skills to feel more competent when doing physical activities
• Understand the importance of goal setting
• Be motivated to develop and maintain a healthy weight
• Gain valuable knowledge about their bodies
• Project Fun, Active, Confident, Energetic Self-Images
• Demonstrate respect for self and others
• Increase an understanding of gender differences associated with puberty
• Develop empathy for their peers
• Act as advocates for their peers in the pursuit of physical activity

Distribution of the Program runs from September through the end of May and closes for the summer months.  Please note, approximately 4-6 weeks for delivery.

PHE Canada endorses Vibrant FACES.

Vibrant FACES promotes physically active and healthy lifestyles for adolescent males and females.  Vibrant FACES is designed to help your students develop Fun, Active, Confident, Energetic Self-Images.