Review the websites below to learn about ways to engage families in supporting their children’s health and wellness. Each resource offers tips, activities, and strategies that can be shared with families to encourage healthy habits at home. After reviewing the resources, discuss with your trainer, coach, or administrator how you plan to share this information with families—such as through newsletters, daily updates, or a family bulletin board.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Physical Activity
  • Information and tools to help increase physical activity and create active-friendly communities for all ages
• Healthy Kids, Healthy Future
  • Resources to share with families
• KidsHealth: For Parents Nutrition and Fitness Center
  • Tips for encouraging healthy eating, fun ways to keep kids active, and guidance for building lifelong wellness habits
• Office of Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Resources and strategies to promote healthy eating and regular physical activity at home, in schools, and in communities
• We Can! Parent Tip Sheets – Activity (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
  • Parent tip sheets offering family-friendly ideas for getting active and building healthy habits together