{"id":3655,"date":"2018-07-10T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2018-07-10T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:26:48","slug":"acsm-and-wellcoaches-expand-partnership-to-deliver-industry-leading-coaching-behavior-change-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/suppliers\/acsm-and-wellcoaches-expand-partnership-to-deliver-industry-leading-coaching-behavior-change-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"ACSM and Wellcoaches Expand Partnership to Deliver Industry-leading Coaching &#038; Behavior Change Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-300x88.png\" alt=\"American College of Sports Medicine\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-300x88.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-200x59.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-800x236.png 800w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine.png 851w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>American College of Sports Medicine<\/p>\n<p><strong>INDIANAPOLIS, IN<\/strong> &#8211; The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and Wellcoaches Corporation (Wellcoaches) announced an expansion of their 16-year partnership that will deliver two co-branded programs to those working in the fitness and wellness professions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe relationship between ACSM and Wellcoaches has been extraordinarily beneficial to both organizations and to those we collectively serve,\u201d said ACSM Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President Jim Whitehead. \u201cThis partnership expansion is the next step in fulfilling our mutual vision to ensure a better quality of life through the promotion of physical activity, health and wellness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two co-branded offerings include a health and wellness coach training and education program and behavior change coaching skills program for fitness professionals. These programs will allow ACSM and Wellcoaches to meet the growing needs for evidence-based, high quality and innovative coach training and education across the health care, employer and community sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Since the launch of the industry-first health and wellness coach training and certification programs in 2002, Wellcoaches has been a global leader, having trained almost 11,000 health professionals as health and wellness coaches in 50 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Wellcoaches coaching protocol, described in the ACSM-endorsed Wellcoaches Coaching Psychology Manual published by Wolters Kluwer, is supported by a rapidly-growing evidence base of 18 peer-reviewed journal articles demonstrating statistically significant benefits in more than 21,000 coaching clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted that the longstanding partnership we started with Wellcoaches, when the field of health and wellness coaching was just beginning, has grown and blossomed into national standards and robust leadership at a global level,\u201d said ACSM Immediate Past President Walt Thompson, who led the creation of the Wellcoaches partnership with ACSM in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether ACSM and Wellcoaches continue to lead the health and wellness coaching industry. We are delivering a gold standard for the eligibility, training and education of health and wellness coaches, which is a key to the successful rollout of population health that is one of the triple aims of health care reform,\u201d notes Wellcoaches Founder and CEO, Margaret \u201cCoach Meg\u201d Moore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>INDIANAPOLIS, IN<\/strong> &#8211; The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and Wellcoaches Corporation (Wellcoaches) announced an expansion of their 16-year partnership that will deliver two co-branded programs to those working in the fitness and wellness professions. The two co-branded offerings include a health and wellness coach training and education program and behavior change coaching skills program for fitness professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3656,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions\/3656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}