We Can! Energize Our Families in the
New Year
The beginning of the new year holds a great deal of
promise. It’s the perfect time for parents and caregivers to
help their children maintain a healthy weight. The
We Can! program offers science-based
programs and practical tips for community organizations,
health professionals, corporations, and others to help
families find the right balance of eating well and being
physically active. Check out the materials below to get
started.
Use the We Can! Energize Our
Families: Parent Program - A Leader's Guide
This guide provides a four lesson
program (90 minutes per lesson) with dynamic activities
and practical, reproducible handouts with tips for
parents to help their families maintain a healthy
weight. We learned from leaders of the original
six session curriculum that parents so enjoyed the
program once they came to the classes, they wanted to
stay longer. So this four lesson option provides
community leaders with more information during each
session on the core concept of energy balance ,
the long term balance between energy in
(calories from food) and energy out (calories
burned through activity).
The lessons are fun and hands-on, with a focus on
helping participants learn essential skills that can
help their families increase access to and availability
of healthy foods, make healthful food choices, become
more physically active, and reduce recreational screen
time. During each lesson, participants are encouraged to
try new nutrition and physical activity tips with their
families, and they are given the opportunity to
share their families' experiences with the
group. They also discuss ways to modify recipes to make
favorite, common meals lower in fat and sugar based on
the “ingredient substitution” concepts they learned.
Don’t miss pages 42-44 in session 2 on
portion distortion. Participants scoop out
different volumes of snack foods and compare their
chosen “portion” with the “serving size” on the package.
They then calculate how much more (or less) fat and
calories are contained in their “portion” relative to
the standardized “serving.”
Also check out page 73 in session 4: less
sit, more fit. This page explains the
importance of meal time being family time. Did you know
that the families who eat together tend to eat more
nutritious meals than families who eat separately?
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Order the We Can! Energize Our
Families: A Family Guide
This workbook contains all of the handouts and
activity sheets used during the We
Can! Parent Program’s four sessions. The
Family Guide also can be used at home to help parents
and caregivers talk to their families about eating
healthy and being physically active, plan healthier
meals, create grocery lists, save money while eating
healthily, and track their family’s physical activity
and screen time. Community planners using the Parent
Program Leader’s Guide may wish to order copies of the
Family Guide to provide to program participants.
Take a look at page 13’s Quick as a Flash
Healthier Snacks for no-time-needed 100 or fewer calorie
snack ideas.
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for ONLY $2.00 each
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Tune Into a We Can! Web
Cast
The Acting Surgeon General Rear Admiral Steven Galson
joins public health leaders from county, city, and state
levels to share how they developed innovative local
programs based on themes and materials from
We Can! Participants
will also speak about the challenges and lessons learned
via Web cast presented by the National Association of
County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and scheduled
for Thursday, February 21, 2008, from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Eastern time. Questions and answers to follow.
Registration is f|r|e|e and starts on February 7 at
http://webcasts.naccho.org.
After registering, you will receive the access link for
watching the session over Internet broadband streaming
video and the phone number for audio only situations.
For agenda, speakers, and more information, visit: http://www.naccho.org/topics/HPDP/mch/emch/archived/07-08/NACCHOEMCHNOVEMBER2007.cfm
View the archive on the Web cast section of the
NACCHO Web site at http://webcasts.naccho.org,
starting March 1.
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