Healthy Together: Helping Families Build
a Healthier Future
To further its mission to promote health and wellness in the Hill Country, Create Healthy offers the Healthy Together program through the Create Healthy Wellness Center.
The free health education and behavior change program helps children and families address the habits and behaviors that can contribute to childhood obesity and the development of chronic disease.
Based on evidence-based curriculum from the Healthy Weight Partnership and the American Council on Exercise and led by a registered dietitian, Healthy Together empowers families with guidance and resources to help children achieve and maintain healthy nutrition and fitness habits.
“I learned to eat a variety of vegetables and fruits. I learned that I can change.”
– Healthy Together child participant
Subsidized by Create Healthy, the Healthy Together program includes educational programming and support and free Wellness Center family memberships.
The first cohort of eight families completed the 12-week program during the summer of 2024, and the program will be expanded for 2025 to serve more children and families.
Healthy Together Program Overview
Healthy Together gives children ages 7 through 11 and their families nutrition and fitness education and guidance to build healthy routines that can help children reverse obesity and maintain a healthy weight and activity level.
The free 12-week program includes:
- two activity sessions for the child
- a nutrition class for parents
- a combined nutrition class for the whole family
Every participating family also receives a free Create Healthy Wellness Center family membership for the duration of the program.
Healthy Together Program Goals
Summer 2024 Program Results
- 100% of participants improved or maintained cardiovascular fitness*
- 86% of participants lost or maintained weight
- 71% of participants reduced or maintained waist measurements
*Cardiovascular fitness is measured using a step test and heart recovery rate.
Did you know?
One in five U.S. Children and adolescents are obese.
Texas has the 5th highest rate of childhood obesity in the U.S.
Expanding Healthy Together
Three Healthy Together sessions are planned for 2025. Contact us for more information.
Kim Thornton, RDN, LD, CDE, ACE | Healthy Together Program Coordinator
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