About Us

Support from GoodLife Fitness members and associates, as well as other community individuals and corporate partners like you, enables GoodLife Kids Foundation to inspire, support and create opportunities for kids to benefit from an active life.
Granting Program
We know that a greater impact can be made by partnering with other organizations with a similar focus. Our granting program primarily focuses on initiatives which provide the opportunity for sustainable behavioural change in the area of physical activity. Learn more about organizations we currently support and full details of the granting program here.
GoodLife Kids Champion
Olympic champion and mom, Silken Laumann has joined GoodLife Kids Foundation to inspire grown up role models like you, who have the greatest impact in a child’s life. Together we can ensure that physical activity and healthy eating become a part of every Canadian child’s daily living. Check out Silken’s blog here.
Goodlifekids.com
This is the place for all of us to communicate, share and learn to help ensure that the kids in our lives will benefit from being inspired to lead active and healthy lives.
GoodLife Kids Foundation is working to help children and youth understand they are in charge of their own health. We want to instill the ‘exercise habit’ at an early age and encourage these patterns to be lifelong.
David Patchell-Evans – Founder, GoodLife Kids Foundation
Our Values
- As a CATALYST we activate role models in helping to change behaviours, increase activity and reduce the obesity rates in Canadian kids.
- Making an IMPACT is about tangible results and evidence that positive change has occurred. Positive impact means more opportunities and more kids benefitting from an active life.
- GoodLife Kids Foundation will COLLABORATE with individuals and organizations committed to EXCELLENCE and PASSIONATE about inspiring active healthy kids.






2 Comments
Comment by Karen Gladwish — January 14, 2010 @ 7:32 pm
Thank you to Ms. Laumann for her statement in today’s Globe and mail regarding “screen time” as being a problem with our youth. As an educator, I am always looking for current events to discuss in my grade six Health class. Yesterday, we read Joe Rollino’s obituary and examined why he lived to be 104. Tomorrow, we will examine the truth of Ms. Laumann’s statement. After reading the article I have searched the GoodLife Kids Foundation website and I can’t wait to bring your material into my class.
Thank you….our class will be using your website!
K. Gladwish
Sarnia, Ontario
Comment by Sherry Kelly — February 3, 2010 @ 8:50 pm
It is great to see Silken in Ontario! We are in Windsor and my 13 year old daughter was just last weekend looking at a picture of herself as an infant in the arms of Silken. We were visiting family in BC in 1996 when we met Silken. My daughter is now a competitive swimmer and an Olympic hopeful. She was quite impressed that I snapped a picture of her with Silken and that spurred a whole conversation on how Olympians are such great role models. She was especially thrilled that she met a female Olympian! So, if you can pass this on to Silken, I would be very grateful and I’m sure this will further inspire my daughter. Please let Silken know that her kindness that day in 1996 might one day be rewarded with another medal for Canada or at least, thanks for fostering a girl’s dream!
Sherry and Brandelyn Kelly
Windsor Aquatic Club