Healthy Weight and Your Child

Healthy Weight and Your Child is a 25-session evidence-based program for children with obesity. The family-based weight-management program emphasizes three elements: healthy eating, regular physical activity, and behavior change to elicit a positive life-long lifestyle transformation.

The Healthy Weight and Your Child curriculum is adapted from the most widely disseminated and extensively evaluated child weight management program in the world (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, Do-IT—MEND). Studies have shown the program model is effective in reducing a child’s body mass index and waist circumference, reducing sedentary behaviors, increasing physical activity, and improving self-esteem.

The program includes a Family Information Session followed by 25 sessions delivered over four months.

Program Goals Include:

• Reduction in the child’s body mass index (BMI)
• Adoption of healthier eating habits by the family
• Increase in daily physical activity
• Improved self-esteem for participants