We help community members and families live healthier lives, and we strive to foster children's learning and development. Following are our community service programs.
- America on the Move (AOM)
Pittsburgh on the Move is a School of Education, community-wide initiative to improve the health of individuals in our region. The focus is on small, realistic changes to eating habits and physical activity. Collaborating with UPMC Health Plan and KDKA-TV, the goal is to create a sustainable, area-wide intervention to reduce risk of chronic disease and to improve the health-related quality of life.
- Basic Physical Education
The University of Pittsburgh has charged the Basic Physical Education Project to provide specific services to its population. Physical education makes its contribution through the use of vigorous muscular activity. The individual's needs are our first consideration. The harmonious development of his/her mental, emotional, and physical being is the cornerstone of our philosophy.
- Community Fitness Project
The University of Pittsburgh Physical Education Department offers non-credit courses to the community each semester. The project offers instruction in aquatics, fitness, and lifetime carry-over activities. Classes are offered as per the time schedule at Trees Hall on the University of Pittsburgh Campus.
- Community Leisure-Learn Program
For more than 35 years, the Community Leisure-Learn Program has provided activity-related opportunities and access to Pitt's facilities for thousands of youth and adults. CLL offerings for children include a summer camp, which serves youth from economically disadvantaged areas; Saturday's Kids; and PAWS (pitt Athletes Working with Students), a mini sports camp. Adult programs include providing passes to use the recreational facilities at Trees Hall and Collaborating with other organizations to provide activity programs throughout the community.
- Kinder Kinetics
Kinder Kinetics is designed to meet the motor development needs of children ages 3 to 12 years (including special needs children). The program is unique in that it provides physical education and aquatic instruction to children in an inclusive setting. Each child will receive 45 minutes of instruction in gym and swim classes. At the end of each session all children are given evaluation cards that provides information as to what they learned and what they are ready to learn next
- Lewis and Clark: Pittsburgh
This site provides a focus on the value of the Eastern Legacy, and in particular the Pittsburgh region, to the Lewis and Clark expedition. A major highlight is the scientific aspect of the Voyage of Discovery. Both teachers and students will find a variety of resources from lesson plans and resources to games and webquests.
- Literacy Educators Assessing and Developing Early Reading Success (LEADERS)
LEADERS was developed to help teachers address the needs of students who are at-risk for encountering difficulties in early reading. It is designed to provide intensive, stable professional development and ongoing, in-classroom support for teachers in schools serving high numbers of students who struggle to learn to read.
- Maximizing Adolescent Potentials (MAPS)
MAPS is a research, public service, and training program dedicated to the prevention of drug and alcohol problems amoung youth, the promotion of adolescent mental health, and the development of capable young people. MAPS works with schools, families, communities, children, and adolescents in a variety of settings. MAPS is a program of the University of Pittsburgh, School of Education, and Allegheny County Drug and Alcohol Prevention Programs. MAPS is certified by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health, Office of Drug and Alcohol Programs. The following list provides a snapshot of the various components of the MAPS program.
- National and International Job Postings
As the School receives job postings from other schools, businesses and organizations, we will add them to our Job Postings site.
- Office of Child Development (OCD)
The University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development works in partnership with faculty and the community to enhance the welfare of children, youth, and families.
- Pittsburgh Performance Profiles (PPP)
Pittsburgh Performance Profiles offers individual fitness testing to athletes of all levels. We also offer fitness testing to the sedentary individual who is looking to begin an exercise program and wants some baseline values. Basically, testing is available to anyone interested in knowing how fit they really are. The Pittsburgh Performance Profiles staff is composed of exercise physiologists, and other health professionals, with extensive experience in testing the highly trained individual as well as the sedentary individual. We offer a variety of fitness tests that can be applied to and assist in improving any exercise routine. Body composition, aerobic fitness, and anaerobic fitness levels are some of the tests that we perform.
