Find out more about CHL program offerings:
Parent ProgramParents Connect for Healthy Living:
Our parent health & empowerment program |
Neighborhood Resource Map |
Other SupportsOther ways we support Head Start parents and staff so they can help improve child health behaviors
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Connecting Staff to Parents and Each Other
- Bring evidence-based health resources to Staff
- Staff as co-leaders with parents for our Parent Program
- Collaborate on data collection instruments
- Collaborate on establishing protocols for engaging families
- Staff as co-leaders with parents for our Parent Program
- Collaborate on data collection instruments
- Collaborate on establishing protocols for engaging families
Our Unique Focus
Developing healthy behaviors early in life protects them from lifelong chronic diseases such as type II diabetes and heart disease, and reduces children’s risk of becoming overweight. Targeting child health among preschool parents means healthy choices can be established early on in life. Programs like ours typically target children at school, but parents and caregivers have the ultimate responsibility of overseeing their child’s nutrition, physical activity, screen time, and sleep.
Unlike typical nutrition or exercise programs, CHL is designed to empower parents with a broad range of life skills, like healthy communication and advocacy; in turn, these skills support the establishment and maintenance of healthy eating, physical activity, screen time, and sleep behaviors, which brings many health benefits for children and their families.
Unlike typical nutrition or exercise programs, CHL is designed to empower parents with a broad range of life skills, like healthy communication and advocacy; in turn, these skills support the establishment and maintenance of healthy eating, physical activity, screen time, and sleep behaviors, which brings many health benefits for children and their families.
The CHL Healthy Habits
We selected these behaviors because of their strong association with decreased risk of childhood obesity. The Healthy Habits are integrated across all of CHL’s intervention components, and are the key health behaviors our project targets. By targeting key health behaviors, we are able to create clear, concise messaging across all our activities and materials.
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CHL is an Intervention Study
Our goal is to impact health behaviors through parent empowerment. Read more about our research, which is a collaborative partnership between Boston College, Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) Head Start, and Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS) Head Start.
