American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance - AAHPERD

Mission

AAHPERD’s mission is to promote and support leadership, research, education, and best practices in the professions that support creative, healthy, and active lifestyles. [Approved by the Alliance Assembly, April 2006.]

AAHPERD's national associations have the following purposes: 

1. to develop and disseminate professional guidelines, standards, and ethics;
2. to enhance professional practice by providing opportunities for professional growth and development;
3. to advance the body of knowledge in the fields of study and in the professional practice of the fields by initiating, facilitating, and disseminating research;
4. to facilitate and nurture communication and activities with other associations and other related professional groups;
5. to serve as their own spokespersons;
6. to promote public understanding and improve government relations in their fields of study;
7. to engage in future planning; and
8. to establish and fulfill other purposes which are consistent with the purposes of the Alliance.

Vision

AAHPERD envisions a society in which all individuals enjoy an optimal quality of life through appreciation of and participation in an active and creative, health-promoting lifestyle. Members of AAHPERD and its national, district, and state associations are recognized as dynamic role models in the realization of this desired future. Members and staff are fully committed to accepting responsibility for continued determination of this future.