Healthy Kids, Healthy Families: A Collaborative Program to Address Childhood Overweight

Authors

  • Kathleen B. Jager Michigan State University
  • Amy M. Saxe Michigan State University
  • Amy K. Smith Michigan State University
  • Marsha T. Carolan Michigan State University
  • Lorraine Weatherspoon Michigan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2008.299

Abstract

Healthy Kids, Healthy Families is a program of outreach and research that has been developed to address treatment and prevention of the childhood obesity epidemic through a family-centered, multidisciplinary approach. The American Dietetic Association recommends community-based and environmental interventions as the most feasible methods to support healthful lifestyles for the greatest numbers of children and families (Ritchie, Crawford, Hoelscher, & Sothern, 2006). Healthy Kids, Healthy Families was developed as an innovative, collaborative program to help children and families maintain healthy weight, through impacting the systemic medical and psychosocial aspects of overweight in children. The program involves in-home, family-based intervention followed by multi-family group education and community outreach.

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Published

2008-12-01

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Research & Evaluation Studies