Promoting healthy lifestyles for children & families

Resources

Bright Futures in Practice: Physical Activity

The Bright Futures in Practice: Physical Activity guide is designed for use by a wide array of health professionals, including physicians, nurses, dietitians, and health educators. The guide provides information health professionals can use to screen and assess the physical activity levels of infants, children, and adolescents and to provide anticipatory guidance on physical activity to families.

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Childhood Obesity: Breaking the Cycle Educator's Toolkit

This educator’s tool kit uses behavior change as the overriding framework with positive, realistic, and achievable goals. It is designed to help educators customize their presentations to meet the needs of a variety of audiences, from very young children to high school students to parents.

Children and Weight: What Families Can Do/ Los Ninos y El Peso: Que Pueden Hacer las Familias

With Children and Weight: What Families Can Do/ Los Ninos y El Peso: Que Pueden Hacer las Familias, health care professionals can educate children and their families about the problems associated with obesity, and help provide ways for children to grow into their appropriate weight.

Evaluation and Treatment of Childhood Obesity

Evaluation and Treatment of Childhood Obesity appeared in the American Academy for Family Physicians in February, 1999. The article discusses the epidemiology, pathophysiology, evaluation and treatment of obese children, and tips to give to parents.

Health & Human Services for Kids

The Health & Human Services for Kids website posts links to resources for children, youth, parents and educators/teachers, as well as to other federal websites.

Healthy Kids Healthy Weight

This website contains fact sheets in both English and Spanish that help families understand the importance of healthy weight in children. Download tips for healthy breakfast, snacks, lunches, beverages, and eating out as well as how to be active for life.

Helping Your Overweight Child

Helping Your Overweight Child, a booklet from Weight-Control Information Network and National Institutes of Health, provides information for parents on what causes children to become overweight, how to tell if a child is overweight and how to help an overweight child. Practical suggestions for helping children develop positive attitudes about eating and simple snack ideas are provided.

Key issues affecting school-based health centers and Medicaid

Key issues affecting school-based health centers and Medicaid, posted on Encyclopedia.com, links to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles on the subject of School Based Health Clinics.

National Association of School-Based Health Centers: Flowchart of Benefits

This National Association of School-Based Health Centers flowchart lists the benefits of School Based Heatlh Clinics.

National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)

The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) is dedicated to providing education, resources, and support to those affected by eating disorders. Whether you are an individual living with an eating disorder, a family member or friend looking to offer support to a loved one, or a treatment professional looking to help others — we have structured our site to address your needs.