Vision Statement

All Americans lead healthy, active lives.

Mission Statement

PCFSN's mission is to engage, educate and empower all Americans across the lifespan to adopt a healthy lifestyle that includes regular physical activity and good nutrition.

The Council plays a key role in the development of the administration's programmatic priorities, outreach and awareness efforts to improve the health and quality of life for all Americans. Among the Council's charges are to:

1. Expand national interest in and awareness of the benefits of regular physical activity, fitness, sports participation, and good nutrition;
2. Stimulate and enhance coordination of programs within and among the private and public sectors that promote physical activity, fitness, sports participation, and good nutrition;
3. Expand availability of quality information and guidance regarding physical activity, fitness, sports participation, and good nutrition; and
4. Target all Americans, with particular emphasis on children and adolescents, as well as populations or communities in which specific risks or disparities in participation in, access to, or knowledge about the benefits of physical activity, fitness, sports participation, and good nutrition have been identified.

About the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition (PDF, 127 KB) - This fact sheet outlines the PCFSN mission as well as other important information about the new Council.