Goal 1: Educate and empower families across the lifecycle with the
skills and information they need to make behavior changes that
support a healthy lifestyle
Anticipated Impact
Increased community access to information about healthy lifestyle behaviors in
children will result in increased community knowledge and skills related to healthy
lifestyle behaviors in children, with the long term goal of better health outcomes
resulting from positive behaviors such as healthy eating, physical activity, and
adequate sleep. Additionally, research suggests a correlation between obesity and
mental health, suggesting that engaging in healthy behaviors also has the potential to
positively impact mental health.
Additionally, we expect health care and service providers to be better equipped
with information and skills they need to address healthy lifestyles with children and
their families across the continuum, beginning in pregnancy. Ideally the community
capacity to understand and support healthy lifestyle behaviors in children across a
continuum will be increased.
Strategy 1.1
Increase community knowledge by centralizing evidence based healthy lifestyle
resources and content and make them easily accessible and available for families and
other community based providers that serve families.
Tactic: Form expert panel to identify evidence based content, and approve and
update content on routine basis. Content will be focused on primary prevention and
will encompass a child’s lifespan, starting during gestation.
Tactic: Create an online hub to house information. Develop comprehensive,
interactive toolkits for target audiences (such as parents, WIC program professionals,
school staff, and other community based organizations).
Tactic: Track utilization of resources and other actions, such as referrals resulting
from people who accessed the information.
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