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Caregiving Across the States: Publicly Funded Programs
Description: Provides information on publicly-funded caregiver support programs in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Description: Links to information on parenting, health, mental health, development, education and child care.
Community Voice: Health Care for the Underserved
Description: This website provides links to numerous resources aimed at addressing health issues of the uninsured, underinsured and underserved.
Description: Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health and long-term care for all Americans.
Health Literacy in America: The Role of Health Care Professionals
Author: Carmona, Richard
Description: Addresses policy issues around the topic of health literacy (defined as the ability of an individual to access, understand, and use health-related information and services to make appropriate health decisions.) Addresses the issue of low health literacy as a threat to the health and well-being of Americans and to the health and well-being of the American medical system.
Description: Living Well provides links to resources throughout the land-grant university system. Includes a link to "Find Cooperative Extension in your state" and research-based information on a host of topics including: food, nutrition, healthy lifestyles, house, home, food safety, raising children, family finances, and balancing family and work.
MEDLINEplus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing
Description: Provides suggestions and criteria for using the Internet to locate health and medical information.
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A Parent's Guide to Kids' Vaccines
Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of children’s vaccinations.
A Study Finds Most People Support Some Anti-discrimination Laws Protecting the Obese
Description: Discrimination happens every day, but obese people have little recourse when it happens to them, since there is no federal law protecting this population. But a survey reveals that public opinion may be in favor of anti-discrimination laws--to a point.
Description: This site provides tips on how to and why one should maintain physical activity.
Description: Time is a valuable asset. Budgeting your time is as important as budgeting your money.
Author: CYFERnet Program Editors, (12 more by this author)
Description: With the arrival of autumn comes the vaccine for the current flu virus in the United States, and time to update your understanding of this year's virus and immunization. It is important to have accurate and helpful information, especially for those working with children and youth. For youth workers, perhaps the best defense against the flu virus is hand washing and keeping surfaces clean, especially in environments where children and youth gather. The resources below provide information and prevention strategies for keeping germs away.
Backpacks: Keep Your Child's Load Light this School Year
Description: This article provides guidelines and suggestions about backpacks for school-age children.
Description: This brief fact sheet gives parents information about substances in the home that are poisonous to children if ingested. Examples are given for safe items and their look-a-like poison match. Brochure format for easy printing for families.
Description: Food biotechnology benefits, safety, and labeling.
Author: Day, Sharon
Description: Bone Builders is a community-based osteoporosis prevention education program for women and older men in Arizona. This website provides information on preventative measures such as diet, exercise, medications, and share information on osteoporosis.
Calcium Checklist-Food Guide Pyramid 
Author: Hertzler, Ann (3 more by this author)
Description: This publication enables consumers to evaluate their own calcium intake and compare it to recommended intake levels. It describes the role of calcium, explains how to read food labels and discusses the use of calcium supplements. Low, medium and high sources of calcium and fat are also listed.
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health
Description: The mission of the American Indian and Alaska Native Programs (AIANP) is to promote the health and well-being of American Indians and Alaska Natives, of all ages, by pursuing research, training, continuing education, technical assistance, and information dissemination within a biopsychosocial framework that recognizes the unique cultural contexts of this special population.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Description: "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CMS runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs - two national health care programs that benefit about 75 million Americans. And with the Health Resources and Services Administration, CMS runs the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a program that is expected to cover many of the approximately 10 million uninsured children in the United States."
Description: Parents and grandparents, friends, family, teachers, physicians and concerned citizens-people want to do what is right and best for children. With that in mind, C&NN has set out to compile a premier set of research studies to help us all understand the connection between nature and the healthy development of children.
Children and Youth: Find Out How To Get Fit
Description: The Services recognize the importance of physical fitness and healthy living habits for the military community and have created innovative programs to promote healthy living for children and youth.
Description: This fact sheet provides some tips to comfort children with diarrhea so they do not get cranky.
Commonly Asked Questions: Anorexia Nervosa
Author: Evans, Garret (12 more by this author); Samuel F. Sears
Description: "Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder that has been gaining a lot of attention in the last 10 to 15 years. People with Anorexia use extreme measures to lose weight. They often become dangerously thin and suffer significant health problems as a result."
Cómo mantener sus propios expedientes médicos
Description: Medical records are important to every family. Careful record keeping will help in the event you move or change doctors.
Consumer Responsibility in Health Care: Improving Communication with your Provider
Author: Rider, Mary Ellen; Paul Flack
Description: This fact sheet provides consumers information on how to improve communication with their health care provider. It describes the importance of communication, how to initiate communication and how to communicate better.
Author: Ebata, Aaron (3 more by this author)
Description: This article discusses how dads can help their children develop “healthy habits” by setting a good example and helping them learn how to make good choices.
Diabetes - Meal Planning, The First Step
Description: Diabetes basic rules for healthy eating.
Diabetes and Diverse Audiences
Description: An overview of diabetes, signs and symptoms, risk factors, major types of diabetes and treatment are discussed.
Author: Gibson, Lisa (6 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides information, geared to the older adult, on diabetes, risk factors, and prevention strategies.
Author: Crawley, Connie (2 more by this author)
Description: These newsletter provide consumers with information on a wide variety of topics related to diabetes care.
Author: Crawley, Connie (2 more by this author)
Description: This two page fact sheet defines Type 1, Type II and gestational diabetes. It also describes potential health complications of uncontrolled diabetes.
Description: This fact sheet tells you how to detect and prevent dehydration in babies with diarrhea and vomiting.
Description: Article written by a CYFAR program participant in New York State's CITIZEN U project about the benefits of eating a diet high in different fruits and vegetables.
Diviértase al preparar alimentos con sus niños
Description: Mealtime can be an important family sharing time. Involve your children in planning, shopping for and preparing meals.
Description: "Easy-to-Read Drug Facts" is based on formative research about how adults with reading levels between fifth and eighth grade use web sites. The web site uses simple language, navigation, design, and features to address many of the common barriers to accessing information.
Author: Billing, Amy (1 more by this author); Dr. Meredith Pearson; Lisa Lachenmayr; Drs. Nancy Atkinson and Robert Gold
Description: The Eat Smart, Be Fit, Maryland! website is a healthy living resource for families interested in learning how to eat healthy, be active, and save money on food. It also has information on local Maryland resources, such as community events, directories, and grocery specials. This website is free to the public and was developed by the University of Maryland, College Park and the Maryland Cooperative Extension, through funding by the USDA's Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program.
Egg and Egg Product Safety and Quality
Description: How to keep your eggs safe to use.
Author: Dresbach, Serena; Lewis Sanderow
Description: This four page fact sheet addresses the controversies surrounding environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). It defines and explores the history of the ETS health research. It also describes risk associated with ETS and how to minimize exposure.
Description: People suffer heat-related illness when their bodies are unable to compensate and properly cool themselves. The body normally cools itself by sweating. But under some conditions, sweating just isn't enough. This site provides resources on how families and individuals can cope with extremely hot weather.
Extreme Heat: Effects to Children and Pregnant Women
Description: Brief fact sheet on why children and pregnant women need to take extra precautions to avoid overheating on days of extreme heat.
Description: The Families, Food, and Fitness section of eXtension provides resources and tools designed to help families make informed decisions about healthy eating and physical activity by providing them with evidence research based information and interactive learning opportunities. This virtual educational environment is targeted to families with young children. The Families, Food, and Fitness (FFF) Community of Practice is organized around three goals: 1) improve diets, 2) increase physical activity, and 3) maintain body weight in a healthy range and avoid excess weight gain.
Families: Eating Smart and Moving More
Description: Offers suggestion on way to make healthier choices, exercise as a family, and spend time together.
Family Health and Safety Organizer
Author: Kurzynske, Janet; Linda Patterson, RN, MSN, Mississippi State University Extension Service; Vivian Bibbs, MPH, Kentucky State University; Ashurst, Kerri
Description: This resource is to assess the level of health risks some families have inherited and have due to lifestyle choices. This puts order to information about major illnesses and other health problems and strategies to improve health status and outcomes.
Description: This article provides an overview about children’s health, specifically in terms of fevers.
Description: This fact sheet tells you the importance fo feeding children with diarrhea and provides a list of good and bad things for them to eat.
Flu.gov: Know what to do about the flu
Description: This website from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services contains the latest information on the H1N1 flu. It includes information for families, people with health conditions, seniors, caregivers and travelers, as well as a state map for locating where the seasonal and H1N1 flu shots are available. Many resources are available in multiple languages.
Description: This publication provides simple tips for keeping active children hydrated when playing youth sports.
Food Additives - Are They Safe?
Description: Any substance added to food that changes its characteristics is called a food additive. Additives are used in the production, processing, treatment, packaging, transportation or storage of food. This publication discusses the reasons for using food additives and addresses the safety issues related to them.
Description: The term "food allergy" is often used to describe any abnormal reaction to food. However, a true food allergy involves an immune reaction to food by the body. Reactions can be triggered by eating a food or for very allergic people, smelling or touching the food. Estimates from 1 to 7% of children under the age of 6 have allergies to foods. This publication explains the causes, symptoms, and treatment of food allergies as well as some common allergenic foods.
Description: This site provides a link to food for thought, which provides fun ideas each month about food, nutrition, and eating for parents of preschool children.
Food Product Dating & Storage Tips
Description: With the exception of infant formula and baby food, product dating is not required by federal regulations. There is no uniform system used for food dating by manufacturers in the U.S. Although dating of some foods is required by more than 20 states, some states do not require any date codes. This publication is a brief guide for how to read food dating, which includes; types of dates, safety after dates expire, changing dates, dating of infant formula and baby food, can codes, dates on egg cartons, and storage times. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Food Safety for Holiday Entertaining
Description: Why is food safety especially important during the holidays? What foods should you be most concerned about? How can you keep holiday foods safe? Learn the answers to these questions and protect your family and friends from food-borne illness.
Description: Most of the "bad food" reported illnesses are due to bacterial contamination. Nearly all of these cases can be linked to improper food handling, both in our homes and in restaurants. This article briefly discusses the causes of food contamination and how to handle food safely.
Food Tips for Training and Competition
Description: Food intake tips for training and competition.
H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu): Resources for Parents and Caregivers
Description: This website from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) provides resources for parents caring for babies, children, and other family members. Includes prevention information, as well as resources for pregnant women and those at high risk for H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu).
Description: Purchase, preparation, and storage of ham.
Hazardous Look-A-Likes in a Child’s World
Description: This brief fact sheet gives parents information about substances in the home that are poisonous to children if ingested. Examples are given for safe items and their look-a-like poison match. Suggestions are given for poison-proofing the home.
Author: McClellan, Deborah (4 more by this author)
Description: This article discusses the importance of staying fit for children and adults, as well as tips on how to do so.
Author: Sullivan, Eileen (1 more by this author)
Description: A manual regarding Health Literacy with the following sections: Definition, Skills Needed for Health Literacy, Background, Role of the Consumer Health Librarian, Support, Health Literacy Organizations and Programs, Bibliographies and Webliographies, and Health Literacy Listservs.
Health Literacy in America: The Role of Health Care Professionals
Description: A speech given by the surgeon general regarding Health Literacy, the part it plays in the lives of health care professionals, and their role in the lives of others.
Description: Health Literacy Studies (HLS) is located in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. HLS is engaged in a variety of activities, studies, and explorations linking health and literacy. Their work is based in public health, health care settings, and adult education programs.
HealthHints: Keeping Children Healthy
Author: Rice, Carol; Janet M. Pollard, MPH
Description: This newsletter issue contains articles on various health topics for children to prevent illness and encourage health habits.
Author: Bobroff, Linda (6 more by this author)
Description: A self test for a healthier lifestyle through the University of Florida with six sections: Cigarette Smoking, Alcohol and Drugs, Eating Habits, Exercise/Fitness, Stress Control, and Safety.
Healthy Fats -- Guide for Improving the Quality of Fat Intake
Description: Guide for Improving the Quality of Fat Intake
Description: Mealtime can be an important family sharing time. Involve your children in planning, shopping for and preparing meals.
Healthy Habits: Let's Eat Together
Author: McClellan, Deborah (4 more by this author)
Description: This article stresses the importance of eating with your children as well as how to find time to do so.
Healthy Homes Partnership: How Healthy is Your Home?
Description: The Healthy Indoor Air for America's and Healthy Homes  website provides up-to-date information about lead and the health consequences.
Description: Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
Author: Hellevang, Kenneth
Description: A web site that is continuing to grow with extensive information related to moisture problems in homes and associated topics such as mold. Includes links to information on coping with natural disasters and publications regarding a family's emotional well-being and stress levels.
How Influenza can hurt your family
Description: This article explains what influenza is and why your family should get vaccinated every year.
IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS for school admission
Description: To be considered fully immunized, most schools require the following immunizations (keep in mind that vaccine requirements for school entry vary from state to state).
Author: Hertzler, Ann (3 more by this author)
Description: This publication enables consumers to evaluate their iron intake. Users are instructed to record their dietary intake for 24 hours and assess their iron intake based on food charts. Individual results can be compared to recommendations. The need for iron is discussed as well as sources from each of the groups in the Food Guide Pyramid.
Keep A Cool Head On Hot, Humid Days To Avoid Heat Stroke
Description: Offers suggestions for keeping cool on hot, humid, summer days and avoiding heat stroke.
Keeping Your Own Medical Records
Description: Medical records are important to every family. Careful record keeping will help in the event you move or change doctors.
La marihuana: Lo que los padres deben saber
Description: Marijuana: Facts Parents Need to Know Provides valuable information from research on the dangers of marijuana. Gives parents explanations of the latest scientific information about the drug and suggestions on how to talk to teens about it.
La seguridad alimenticia durante las reuniones en días festivos
Description: Why is food safety especially important during the holidays? What foods should you be most concerned about? How can you keep holiday foods safe? Learn the answers to these questions and protect your family and friends from food-borne illness.
Lead Poisoning and Your Child's Health
Description: Describes dangers of lead poisoning to infant and early childhood and what parents should look for to detect lead dangers.
Let's Move: America's Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids
Description: Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. Combining comprehensive strategies with common sense, Let's Move! is about putting children on the path to a healthy future during their earliest months and years. Giving parents helpful information and fostering environments that support healthy choices. Providing healthier foods in our schools. Ensuring that every family has access to healthy, affordable food. And, helping kids become more physically active.
Author: Gibson, Lisa (6 more by this author)
Description: A webpage discusses the various forms of arthritis, some treatments for it, and ways you can cope with the disease.
Managed Care: Understanding our Changing Health Care System
Author: Carlson, Gail (2 more by this author)
Description: This three page fact sheet provides basic information about managed care. It includes a comparison to conventional insurance and defines key terms such as capitation, etc.
Author: LaFont, Marjorie
Description: This article provides tips on mealtimes for preschoolers.
MEDLINEplus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing
Description: This resource suggests what people should look for when evaluating the quality of health information on web sites and provides a set of suggestions and criteria.
Description: Milk facts, information, and tips.
Description: This section of the NWHIC web site addresses the most common health risks and concerns of minority women. Even though minority women have many of the same health problems as white women, they are in poorer health. Minority women use fewer health services and continue to suffer more from premature death, disease, and disabilities. Many also face huge social, economic, and cultural barriers to having life-long good health. Also, because minority groups are very diverse, even within one group, these women's access to health care, their health behaviors, and their health status can vary widely.
Minority Women's Health: African Americans
Description: This website provides information on the following common health problems found in African-American women: asthma, breast cancer, diabetes, getting health care, heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, HIV/AIDS, infant deaths, kidney disease, lupus, other cancers, overweight and obesity, pregnancy-related death, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), sickle cell anemia, smoking, stroke, tuberculosis, and uterine fibroids.
Moving Children = Healthy Children
Author: Rocha, Sherry
Description: This article discusses how to keep children moving to establish healthy habits.
Author: Heimlich, Joe (2 more by this author)
Description: This three page fact sheet defines multiple chemical sensitivity and Environmental Illness. It identifies symptoms and the controversy surrounding these illnesses. It also lists common chemical sensitivities.
National Hispanic Family Health
Description: The mission of National Alliance for Hispanic Health is to improve the health and well-being of Hispanics. It is the nation’s oldest and largest network of
Hispanic health and human services providers.
Description: The National Institutes of Health's health information web site offers links to a range of NIH's valuable resources, features colorful images to highlight a range of useful features, and gives readers an opportunity to test their health knowledge. The site has information geared for the whole family, including children, youth, teens, parents, and seniors. Educators, clinicians, and researchers will continue to find the site a valuable resource of tools and guidelines.
National Women's Health Information Center
Description: This website and toll-free call center were created to provide free, reliable health information for women. Includes information on heart disease, disabilities and pregnancy, as well as other important topics of interest to women. Health services information and resources are available in Spanish.
Author: Glasser, Debbie (1 more by this author)
Description: News For Parents.org provides news and information to parents. Contains up-to-date information on issues that are important to parents, such as education, expectant parents, family and home, health and development, special needs and medical challenges.
Description: Keeping food safe to eat is as simple as keeping hot foods hot, cold foods cold, and all foods clean. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Description: This website provides information and resources for nutrition education programs.
Nutrition & Your Child Newsletter
Description: This website provides a link to current and past issues of a research-based newsletter produced by the ARS/USDA Children's Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) at Baylor College of Medicine in cooperation with USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES). You can sign up to receive the free nutrition newsletter at this site.
Description: Explanation of package dating on foods.
Author: Hertzler, Ann (3 more by this author); Tim Roberts
Description: This fact sheet provides guidelines for safely packing, storing and transporting food. It identifies causes of food safety problems and how they can be avoided. It also identifies safe work habits.
Description: Healthy nutrition and a healthy lifestyle are of concern to parents, caregivers, afterschool staff, teachers . . . everyone. We've heard about the concerns that the current generation of children will be the risk to not live as long as their parents due to childhood obesity. Learn about programs and info that can impact a child for life!
Description: NIHCM Foundation: This issue brief reviews the need for confidential care delivery for adolescents, legal protections in place, and health insurance system barriers to delivering confidential care. It recommends strategies for health insurers to assure that their billing processes are protecting adolescents' access to confidential care.
Reading the Nutrition Facts Label: Step-by-Step Approach
Description: Step by step instructions on how to read nutrition fact labels.
Description: This fact sheet provides helpful tips to parents and professionals on how to keep babies safe while sleeping. This resource describes ways to help prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and the death of infants while sleeping with others.
School Age Children and Physical Activity
Description: Offers suggestions on ways to plan family exercise activities so that parents and children can exercise together and have fun.
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
Description: This website is the home page for the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), a non-profit organization that develops, collects and disseminates information and advocates for responsible sexual choices. The site provides resources and links for a wide variety of audiences on numerous sexuality issues.
Should See Doctor Before Starting School
Description: This article provides an overview of what parents need to know before their children start school.
Small Steps to Health and Wealth
Description: This Web site provides information, resources, and 25 behavior change strategies to help Americans simultaneously improve their health and personal finances.
Description: This Web site is a searchable collection of government resources about a wide variety of health and nutrition topics.
Steps to a Healthier You: My Pyramid.gov
Description: From the USDA. One size doesn't fit all. MyPyramid Plan can help you choose the foods and amounts that are right for you. For a quick estimate of what and how much you need to eat, enter your age, sex, and activity level in the MyPyramid Plan box.
Strategies for Successful Health
Author: Holmes, Patricia (4 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides information on maintaining good health and nutrition as people get older.
Su Familia: The National Hispanic Family Health Helpline
Description: The National Hispanic Family Health Helpline (1-866-783-2645) is a national helpline that offers consumers free reliable and confidential health information in Spanish and English.
Sugar Substitutes - Are They Safe?
Description: Facts about 6 different sugar substitutes approved by the FDA
Author: Goard, Linnette (5 more by this author)
Description: A webpage through the Ohio State University Extension that works on targeting a healthier diet through four main factors: drug intake, stress level, practicing good safety, and the amount of physical activity you partake in.
Description: The Communicator is a monthly research update in the areas of food safety, family development, nutrition education and family economics from the University of Idaho School of Family and Consumer Sciences.
The Family Connection to Good Nutrition and Raising Healthy Children
Description: Understanding the importance of family meals and the inverse relationship between families eating together and childhood obesity.
The Guide to Community Preventive Services
Description: The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) is a free and valuable resource that helps inform decisions about public health practice, policy, research, and research funding. Topics include: adolescent health, alcohol, birth defects, cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, mental health, obesity, tobacco, and violence.
The R Factor: Building Resiliency in Young Adults
Description: Welcome to Dads Make a Difference, a paternity education program for middle school-age youth, older teens, young adults, and the teachers and other professionals who work with them. Dads Make a Difference is the umbrella program for two exciting curricula:
the original Dads Make a Difference curriculum taught by older teens to middle school-age youth, and
our second curriculum, The R Factor: Building Resiliency in Young AdultsTM, taught primarily by teachers to students ages 16 to 20 years.
Learn about the importance of fathers in the lives of children, planning for a healthy future as a responsible parent or mentor, and the people who help share the important message of Dads Make a Difference.
Tips for Parents – Ideas to Help Children Maintain a Healthy Weight
Description: This article from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides research-based information on how parents can help their children maintain healthy weights.
US Department of Health and Human Services and SAMHSA
Description: SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is the Nation's one-stop resource for information about substance abuse prevention and addiction treatment.
Vaccine Preventable Diseases: Fact Sheet for Parents
Description: In the U.S., vaccines have reduced or eliminated many infectious diseases that once routinely killed or harmed thousands of infants and young children each year. However, the viruses and bacteria that cause vaccine-preventable disease and death still exist and can be passed on to people who are not immunized. Many of these diseases are described here.
Video Game Addiction Is your child hooked?
Description: This link provides a 17 minute discussion with CHAM radio talk show host, Mike Nabuurs, on video game addiction.
Video Game Addiction: Warning signs and issues
Description: This is a link to a discussion about video game addiction, providing warning signs and issues.
When Should You Call the Doctor?
Description: No doctor wants to be called for every sniffle, but any doctor would rather have you call with a question, than let a problem become serious.
When to worry about common childhood conditions
Description: This fact sheet highlights one of the most common worries of parents--whether they are up to the challenges of parenting, especially when it comes to recognizing illness.
Your Child's Health, Your Child's Weight
Description: This publication discusses the problem of childhood obesity and gives parents BMI charts and information to determine if their children are at risk.
Description: Time is a valuable asset. Budgeting your time is as important as budgeting your money.
¿Cuándo debe llamar al médico?
Description: No doctor wants to be called for every sniffle, but any doctor would rather have you call with a question, than let a problem become serious.
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Center for Deployment Psychology: Preparing Professionals to Support Service Members and Families
Description: As the number, duration and frequency of military deployments increase, so do the behavioral health difficulties of Service members and their families. To better fulfill the unmet deployment-related behavioral health needs of Service members and their families, the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP). The CDP’s mission is to train military and civilian psychologists, psychology interns/residents and other behavioral health professionals to provide high quality deployment-related behavioral health services to military personnel and their families.
Children’s Health in the Aftermath of Floods
Description: This website provides a series of articles relating to children’s health in the aftermath of a flood.
Description: An interactive anthology that provides research methods and tools to address emerging challenges in public health, such as the obesity epidemic and the rise of chronic diseases such as heart disease. The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health collaborated with New England Research Institutes to create the free resource, called e-Source.
Description: healthfinder.gov en español le ofrece la información más actualizada para que usted y sus seres queridos se mantengan saludables. [This site from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides links to health information and resources in Spanish.]
Description: This series of nine fact sheets was created for those who are designing patient education materials for consumers with low health literacy skills. The sheets define health literacy, describe its impact on health outcomes, provide strategies to prepare appropriate educational materials to assist low-literate consumers, and provide resources for additional health literacy information and publications.
Description: This website managed by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services provides information and resources aimed at helping families improve their health and health care options.
Seminar for Parents: Alcohol Use On Campus
Description: The University of Minnesota has developed an online course for parents that addresses alcohol use and binge drinking during the college years. It provides statistics, tips for talking about alcohol, comments from parents and college students, and a list of resources.
US Administration on Aging and the Aging Network
Description: The U.S. Administration on Aging promotes the integration of health and social services, supporting our nation’s family caregivers, health promotion and disease prevention efforts.
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Center for Deployment Psychology: Preparing Professionals to Support Service Members and Families
Description: As the number, duration and frequency of military deployments increase, so do the behavioral health difficulties of Service members and their families. To better fulfill the unmet deployment-related behavioral health needs of Service members and their families, the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP). The CDP’s mission is to train military and civilian psychologists, psychology interns/residents and other behavioral health professionals to provide high quality deployment-related behavioral health services to military personnel and their families.
Getting Our Hearts Right: Three Keys to Better Relationships
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author); James Marshall, University of Arkansas
Description: This program is focused on three keys for activating our hearts. When combined with our knowledge and skills, these keys can turn our differences and conflicts into harmony and growth.
Living a More Balanced Life: CYFERnet Webinar (May 2011)
Author: Sant, Laura; Marnie Spencer, M.S., R.D., University of Idaho Extension, Bingham County
Description: This is an archived version of the webinar conducted May 10, 2011. The training is intended for parent and family life educators who want to learn about a new program that teaches individuals how to balance time, manage stress, eat mindfully, be physically active, and sleep well in order to live a more balanced life. "Balanced Living" was written by Laura Sant and Marnie Spencer, two University of Idaho educators with many years of experience teaching adult audiences. During this 90-minute webinar, the authors provide an overview of the "Balanced Living" curriculum and how it can be conducted.
US Administration on Aging and the Aging Network
Description: The U.S. Administration on Aging promotes the integration of health and social services, supporting our nation’s family caregivers, health promotion and disease prevention efforts.
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A Nation at Risk: Obesity in the United States
Author: Collins, Gail (3 more by this author)
Description: This statistical sourcebook provides key facts about obesity. The sourcebook was produced by The American Heart Association, in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The audience for the document includes media, policymakers, health professionals and school officials, among others.
A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers: But Everybody's Doin It
Author: King, Howard (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet from "Teen Talk" provides suggestions for parents on talking with their teenagers about peer pressure, decision-making, and risk-taking.
A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers: Relax Mom, It's Only Pot!
Author: King, Howard (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet from "Teen Talk" provides suggestions for parents on talking with their teenagers about marijuana.
Description: America On The Move (AOM) is a national initiative dedicated to helping individuals and communities across the country make positive changes to improve health and quality of life. AOM inspires people of all ages to have fun, shows simple ways to become more active by engaging individuals through interactive media, and supports community involvement and behavior change.
America On the Move and The Cooperative Extension Service: Partners for Healthy Living
Description: America On The Move (AOM) is a national initiative dedicated to helping individuals and communities across the country make positive changes to improve health and quality of life. This brochure describes the goal of the partnership, lists the partnership states, and includes program contact information. It is available as a PDF and may be duplicated for promotional use at extension state meetings, events, and mailings to county agents and educators.
America On the Move: A Partnership Guide for Walking and Healthy Living
Description: America On The Move (AOM) is a national initiative dedicated to helping individuals and communities across the country make positive changes to improve health and quality of life. This guide was designed by CSREES and America on the Move for use with ongoing classes and presentations of CES programs. The guide provides a 6-week walking promotion curriculum with lessons ranging from 5 to 20 minutes.
America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2008
Description: The report highlights selected indicators such as family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.
America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011
Description: America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011 is a compendium of indicators depicting our Nation's young people. The report, the 15th in an ongoing series, presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives. These indicators are drawn from our most reliable statistics, are easily understood by broad audiences. This report compiles the most recent national figures about the 75 million youth between ages zero and 17 in the U.S in seven different domains: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health.
Description: The American Camp Association is a national community of camp professionals dedicated to enriching the lives of children and adults through the camp experience. ACA is the only organization that accredits all types of camps, based upon 300 national standards for health and safety.
Description: This online Network is designed for community-based asthma programs and organizations that sponsor them—including representatives of health plans and providers, government health and environmental agencies, nonprofits, coalitions, schools and more.
At Your Doorstep: A Family Fact Sheet on Outdoor Play and Learning
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Lucy Bradley, Liz Driscoll
Description: This fact sheet from North Carolina State University provides information about the research on the benefits of outdoor play and provides tips for families on ways to spend time together, enjoy nature and the outdoors.
Breastfeeding - Best For Baby. Best For Mom
Description: This website provides a collection of articles on the benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and babies.
Description: The summary states that low-income households that receive maximum food assistance benefits usually can afford a healthy diet; others may have more difficulty.
Description: This training was developed to educate child welfare professionals about substance abuse and mental health disorders among families involved in he child welfare system. It is intended to provide learning opportunities and baseline knowledge on substance abuse and mental health problems and interventions; motivate and facilitate cross-systems work; and incorporate cultural awareness and facilitate cultural competency in child welfare practice.
Children and Youth: Find Out How To Get Fit
Description: The Services recognize the importance of physical fitness and healthy living habits for the military community and have created innovative programs to promote healthy living for children and youth.
Children and Youth: Find Out How To Get Fit
Description: The Services recognize the importance of physical fitness and healthy living habits for the military community and have created innovative programs to promote healthy living for children and youth.
Commissary News: Healthy Eating and Shopping
Description: Looking to eat healthier this year? The Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) website offers great tips and recipes for shopping smart and eating healthy.
Community Food Security Coalition
Description: The Community Food Security Coalition's goal is that all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that maximizes community self-reliance and social justice.
Description: This is a website for nutrition professionals. Sponsored by the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, Cornell NutritionWorks uses distance technology to provide professional development on a host of nutrition topics and research.
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Description: Ranking the health of nearly every county in the nation, the County Health Rankings illustrate what we know when it comes to what’s making people sick or healthy. The County Health Roadmaps show what we can do to create healthier places to live, learn, work and play.
Author: Ebata, Aaron (3 more by this author)
Description: This article discusses how dads can help their children develop “healthy habits” by setting a good example and helping them learn how to make good choices.
Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Description: Dietary Guidelines for Americans is published jointly every 5 years by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Guidelines provide authoritative advice for people two years and older about how good dietary habits can promote health and reduce risk for major chronic diseases.
Description: An interactive anthology that provides research methods and tools to address emerging challenges in public health, such as the obesity epidemic and the rise of chronic diseases such as heart disease. The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health collaborated with New England Research Institutes to create the free resource, called e-Source.
Description: "Easy-to-Read Drug Facts" is based on formative research about how adults with reading levels between fifth and eighth grade use web sites. The web site uses simple language, navigation, design, and features to address many of the common barriers to accessing information.
Author: Billing, Amy (1 more by this author); Dr. Meredith Pearson; Lisa Lachenmayr; Drs. Nancy Atkinson and Robert Gold
Description: The Eat Smart, Be Fit, Maryland! website is a healthy living resource for families interested in learning how to eat healthy, be active, and save money on food. It also has information on local Maryland resources, such as community events, directories, and grocery specials. This website is free to the public and was developed by the University of Maryland, College Park and the Maryland Cooperative Extension, through funding by the USDA's Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program.
Description: A North Carolina statewide initiative promotes increased opportunities for physical activity and healthy eating through policy and environmental change. The site provides professional and personal tools for increasing physical activity and healthy eating.
EFMP Nothing Can Stop Healthy Living
Description: This article provides some different tools, programs, and ideas to consider when looking to improve personal health and well-being.
Description: Empowering People provides resources for all areas of your life. Health, wealth, parenting, relationships, spirituality and much more.
Description: Family Album Radio is a daily radio program on family issues, designed to help families improve their lives. This research based radio program on family life is distributed through National Public Radio and a companion website. Podcasts and MP3 files are archived on a host of topics including: parenting, relationships, caregiving, health, nutrition, family finances and home safety.
Family Health and Safety Organizer
Author: Kurzynske, Janet; Linda Patterson, RN, MSN, Mississippi State University Extension Service; Vivian Bibbs, MPH, Kentucky State University; Ashurst, Kerri
Description: This resource is to assess the level of health risks some families have inherited and have due to lifestyle choices. This puts order to information about major illnesses and other health problems and strategies to improve health status and outcomes.
Description: Like other forms of parental involvement, research shows a positive relationship between frequent family dinners and positive teen behavioral outcomes. Teens who regularly have meals with their family are less likely to get into fights, think about suicide, smoke, drink, use drugs, and are more likely to have later initiation of sexual activity, and better academic performance than teens who do not. Research differences by race and ethnicity are addressed.
Description: Farm to School connects schools (K-12) and local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing agriculture, health and nutrition education opportunities, and supporting local and regional farmers.
Description: This site provides a link to food for thought, which provides fun ideas each month about food, nutrition, and eating for parents of preschool children.
Health Care Coverage for You and Your Family
Description: This is a fact sheet on health care coverage and how your family is covered.
Author: McClellan, Deborah (4 more by this author)
Description: This article discusses the importance of staying fit for children and adults, as well as tips on how to do so.
Author: Sullivan, Eileen (1 more by this author)
Description: This document provides a comprehensive overview of the topic of health literacy with links to resources and other publications.
Description: This article explains how to be involved in your child making healthy choices.
Healthy Habits: Let's Eat Together
Author: McClellan, Deborah (4 more by this author)
Description: This article stresses the importance of eating with your children as well as how to find time to do so.
Description: Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
Joint Service Training Inclusive Recreation for Wounded Warriors
Description: This four-day course focuses on the important role recreation and sports can have in the recovery process.
Description: Links to videos about Kids in the Kitchen, a program of the Junior Leagues aimed at tackling childhood obesity.
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food
Description: This is a USDA effort to create new economic opportunities by better connecting consumers with local producers. It underscores the importance of understanding where your food comes from and how it gets to your plate.
Let’s Move! America's Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids
Description: Let’s Move! Provides parents, community leaders and teachers with ways children can be more physically active, and make healthy food choices.
Living a More Balanced Life: CYFERnet Webinar (May 2011)
Author: Sant, Laura; Marnie Spencer, M.S., R.D., University of Idaho Extension, Bingham County
Description: This is an archived version of the webinar conducted May 10, 2011. The training is intended for parent and family life educators who want to learn about a new program that teaches individuals how to balance time, manage stress, eat mindfully, be physically active, and sleep well in order to live a more balanced life. "Balanced Living" was written by Laura Sant and Marnie Spencer, two University of Idaho educators with many years of experience teaching adult audiences. During this 90-minute webinar, the authors provide an overview of the "Balanced Living" curriculum and how it can be conducted.
Local Food: Does It Matter What You Eat?
Description: This program resource focuses on sustainable food systems and is designed to help families understand how what they eat and where it comes from, it impacts the environment.
Description: Local Harvest is a not for profit website designed to help consumers find fresh locally grown foods in neighborhoods throughout the United States, including Farmers' Markets, CSA's, U-Picks and more.
Description: The MCH Navigator, a learning portal for maternal and child health professionals, students, and others working to improve the health and well being of women, children, and families.
Author: Spencer, Marnie (2 more by this author); Rhea Lanting; Laura Sant
Description: This curriculum focuses on helping families how to plan quick and healthy meals, shop to save time and money, and prepare healthy meals in less time. Includes ordering information.
Author: LaFont, Marjorie
Description: This article provides tips on mealtimes for preschoolers.
Moving Children = Healthy Children
Author: Rocha, Sherry
Description: This article discusses how to keep children moving to establish healthy habits.
Description: USDA recently replaced the old Food Guide Pyramid with MyPyramid, a new food guidance system that emphasizes the need for a more individualized approach to improving diet and lifestyle.
National Eating Disorders Association
Description: This website provides education, resources and support to those affected by eating disorders.
You’ll find a Parent Toolkit and an Educator Toolkit with helpful information, programs and events to help you get involved in the cause, up-to-the-minute news stories and much more.
National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
Description: The National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network is a system of integrated health, exposure, and hazard information and data from a variety of national, state, and city sources. On the Tracking Network, you can explore information and view maps, tables, and charts about health and environment across the country.
Nutraceuticals, Phytochemicals, and Antioxidants-What Are They All About?
Author: Oliveri, Cindy
Description: This fact sheet provides definitions for nutraceuticals, phytochemicals,and
antioxidants and describes ways to include these important nutrients in a healthy diet.
Description: This website provides information and resources for nutrition education programs.
Nutrition and Physical Activity Fair Planning Guide
Description: This planning guide consists of four PDF files regarding: Nutrition and Physical Activity Fair Planning.
Author: Nitzke, Susan
Description: This article provides an overview of how American's eating patterns have changed and the impact these changes have had on health.
Description: The American Association of Poison Control Centers offers continual updates and information for parents.
Protect Your Children From Poisons at Home (Proteja a Sus NiÃos de los Venenos en el Hogar)
Description: This brief fact sheet gives parents information about substances in the home that are poisonous to children if ingested. Suggestions are given for poison-proofing the home. (Note: This resource is also available in html at http://www.nasdonline.org/document/1697/d001584/protect-your-children-from-poisons-at-home.html and in Spanish as "Proteja a Sus NiÃos de los Venenos en el Hogar" at http://www.nasdonline.org/static_content/documents/1698/d001584s.pdf.) This document was reviewed in 2002.
Protecting Children in Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders
Description: This manual, from the the Child Abuse and Neglect User Manual Series, examines the nature of substance abuse; its impact on child development; in-home examination, screening, and assessment for substance abuse; treatment goals and approaches; the role of the child protective services (CPS) caseworker when substance abuse is identified; and how professionals can work together to help families.
Raising Healthy Children in an Overweight World
Author: Gallup, Shari (1 more by this author); Beverly Keil
Description: This fact sheet discusses what is known about childhood obesity and what parents can do to help their children maintain/achieve healthy weights.
Reaching Out: Successful Efforts to Provide Children and Families with Health Care
Description: This guide examines various enrollment efforts and activities community agencies can use to enroll children in public health care programs. The guide outlines activities to break down barriers in enrolling and retaining "hard to reach" populations in the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicaid. Each section of this guide highlights individual and organization experiences. Obstacles and successful outreach/enrollment efforts are described. Policy recommendations are presented.
Seminar for Parents: Alcohol Use On Campus
Description: The University of Minnesota has developed an online course for parents that addresses alcohol use and binge drinking during the college years. It provides statistics, tips for talking about alcohol, comments from parents and college students, and a list of resources.
Setting an Example When Eating Out as a Family
Author: Brinkman, Pat
Description: This fact sheet discusses how parents can help their children by setting an example for healthy eating.
Description: This page provides resources on smoking and tobacco use.
The ABCs of Health-Focused Well-Being
Author: Pelican, Suzanne; Marci Getz; Fred Vanden Heede
Description: The objective of this guide is to increase awareness of and appreciation for a health-focused versus a weight-focused approach to well being and to do so in a format that is appealing and user-friendly. Most of the content is conveyed through definitions of 38 health-related terms and concepts from "A" through "Z".
Description: Center for Food Safety is a public interest and environmental advocacy organization which works to address the impacts of our food production system on human health, animal welfare and the environment.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Author: Collins, Gail (3 more by this author)
Description: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a Federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Contains accurate and timely information on Medicare, Medicaid, and the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan.
Author: James, Lynn
Description: The Family Fitness Program is a nine-lesson after school program for all children ages 8-12, especially those who are at risk for becoming overweight or who are overweight. Children attend the program for 1.5 hour lessons to learn about making healthy food choices and ways to increase physical activity. Parents attend five separate meetings (three with their child) to receive information, skills, and motivational guidance leading to improved food choices, physical activity, and family support. Programs have been successfully conducted over a nine-week time period (children meeting weekly; parents meeting biweekly) and a five-week time period (children meeting twice weekly; parents meeting weekly).
The Family-to-Family Education Program
Description: The Family-to-Family Education Program is a free 12-session course on mental illness that includes ways to understand the illness and how to help the person who has the illness.
The President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition
Description: The Presidents Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition’s (PCFSN) mission is to engage, educate and empower all Americans across the lifespan to adopt a healthy lifestyle that includes regular physical activity and good nutrition.
The R Factor: Building Resiliency in Young Adults, A Dads Make a Difference Program
Author: Endersbe, Julie
Description: This curriculum promotes positive involvement of fathers and educates youth about responsible parenting. It is intended to be taught by adult teachers to high school students.
The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
Description: The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program is a U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded initiative that sponsors competitive grants for sustainable agriculture research and education in a regional process nationwide.
Tufts University Child and Family WebGuide
Description: The Tufts University Child and Family WebGuide consists of five main categories of information: family/parenting, education/learning, typical child development, health/mental health, and resources/recreation. The first four categories contain sites with research-based information. The fifth category, resources/recreation, contains sites with information about specific programs and things to do.
USDA Database of Community Supported Agriculture Farms and Resources
Description: Community Supported Agriculture consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community's farm, with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production.
Author: Crawley, Connie (2 more by this author); Kelly Cordray, Marilyn Wright; Janine Freeman; Gail Hanula
Description: These two notebooks contain 23 lessons that can be presented to those interested in weight control and becoming more physically fit. Each lesson contains 15 minute lecturette with supporting slide presentation, handouts, and recipes. Topics cover all areas of nutrition and physical activity.
We Can!—Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition
Description: We Can!—Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition—is a national healthy weight education program for families and communities. The program focuses on providing expert health information, classes and activities to families to encourage better nutrition, more physical activity, and less "screen time" for children and young people ages 8-13. We Can! is a collaborative program among the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and National Cancer Institute (NCI).
We Can: Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition
Description: We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition) is a national program designed as a one-stop resource for parents and caregivers interested in practical tools to help children 8-13 years old stay at a healthy weight. Tips and fun activities focus on three critical behaviors: improved food choices, increased physical activity and reduced screen time.
What Does the Safety Net Accomplish?
Description: This series of reports examines the research on the impacts and accomplishments of government programs that assist low-income families and individuals. Each report includes state-by-state data on the number of the people assisted by the program.
What the Research Tells Us About Family Meals
Author: Gallup, Shari (1 more by this author); Cheryle Jones Syracuse; Cindy Oliveri
Description: The goal of this fact sheet is to provide both nutrition and family life educators interdisciplinary information to encourage families to eat meals together by sharing what the research tells us about family meals in America today.
When the Pantry Is Bare: Emergency Food Assistance and Hispanic Children
Description: This site addresses the economic need among Hispanic families, the role of private food assistance in supplementing the government's nutrition safety net, and ways to increase income and reduce food insecurity.
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2009 KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-Being
Description: KIDS COUNT Data Book provides access to data on the well-being of children.
Author: Palan, Kay; Cheryl O. Hausafus; Jennifer Paff Ogle; Mary Lynn Damhorst
Description: This paper addresses an issue that has received little attention within the literature: the role that parents play in shaping childrens nutrition and exercise beliefs and behaviors. Of particular interest was the influence of parental style and the quality of parent-child communication upon childrens nutrition and exercise beliefs and behaviors. Twenty family units with a child in middle school were studied during home visits. Data were collected with a survey instrument, including measures related to parent-adolescent communication quality, warm and restrictive parenting styles, adolescent nutrition concern, adolescent weight loss behaviors, and adolescent exercise commitment and satisfaction. Results suggest that adolescents nutrition concerns were positively related to good communication quality and restrictive parenting behaviors, and they support the significance of parental communication on adolescents nutrition and exercise attitudes and behaviors. Implications for education and intervention are identified.
America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2008
Description: The report highlights selected indicators such as family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.
America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009
Description: This annual report, which provides detailed information on the welfare of children and families. It tracks three demographic background measures and 40 key indicators and features children with special health care needs.
Description: The summary states that low-income households that receive maximum food assistance benefits usually can afford a healthy diet; others may have more difficulty.
Author: Hair, Elizabeth (2 more by this author); Thomson Ling and Laura Wandner
Description: This research brief examines the prevalence of vending machines, school stores, and other outlets in
elementary schools that often provide non-nutritious foods, the types of food and beverages sold
within these outlets, and student consumption of food at school among a nationally representative
sample of fifth-grade students.
Description: This is a website for nutrition professionals. Sponsored by the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, Cornell NutritionWorks uses distance technology to provide professional development on a host of nutrition topics and research.
Does parenting affect children's eating and weight status?
Description: Although the etiology of childhood obesity is complex, to date, most preventive interventions have focused on school-aged children in school settings and have met with limited success. In this review, the authors focus on another set of influences that impact the development of children's eating and weight status: parenting and feeding styles and practices to assess the extent to which current evidence supports the hypothesis that parenting, via its effects on children's eating, is causally implicated in childhood obesity; and to identify a set of promising strategies that target aspects of parenting.
Early Childhood Policy Focus: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
Description: This fact sheet from Child Trends examines a number of factors that affect the nutrition and exercise habits of young children, including personal choices by parents and children, financial constraints (such as the availability, accessibility, and cost of healthy options), and public policies. Research on these factors offers insights into ways to encourage the development of healthy eating and physical fitness habits in early childhood and beyond.
Effectiveness of the six-week Strong Women Stay Young program
Author: Spencer, Marnie (2 more by this author)
Description: Two hundred forty-four women, ages 29 to 89, participated twice a week in a Strong Women Stay Young Extension program for six weeks. Participants completed six strength-training exercises and received nutrition information at each class. Participants reported that they increased their arm and leg strength by 46 to 80 percent; increased their intake of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy products; and improved their ability to complete daily activities.
Description: Like other forms of parental involvement, research shows a positive relationship between frequent family dinners and positive teen behavioral outcomes. Teens who regularly have meals with their family are less likely to get into fights, think about suicide, smoke, drink, use drugs, and are more likely to have later initiation of sexual activity, and better academic performance than teens who do not. Research differences by race and ethnicity are addressed.
Description: Health, United States is an annual report on trends in health statistics.
Description: This article provides the results of research into the association between a family's participation or nonparticipation in the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and the anthropometric status and health of their young children.
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009
Description: This report presents data on income,poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the 2010 and earlier Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic This report presents data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the 2010 and earlier Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic
Supplements conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Author: Summer, Laura; Cindy Mann
Description: This report examines the extent, causes, and consequences of instability in public coverage programs for children and families. It focuses particularly on the phenomenon of "churning," which occurs when individuals lose and regain coverage in a short period of time. It also looks at strategies to make public program coverage more stable for children and families. Findings are drawn from national and state-based studies, roundtable discussions and interviews with stakeholders and experts, and an examination of the affect of state and local policies on instability and churning in four states: Louisiana, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington.
Knowledge Levels Regarding the Concept of Community Food Security Among Florida Extension Agents
Description: This article describes a study that focused on Florida Extension agents' levels of knowledge regarding community food security.
Let's Move! Childhood White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity Report to the President
Description: The Let's Move! campaign is aimed at solving the childhood obesity epidemic. The report includes 70 specific recommendations.
National Center for Health Statistics
Description: The National Center for Health Statistics website contains data on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care. Also includes links to survey and data collection systems, news releases, CDC initiatives, and other publications
New Study Shows Link Between Sleep and Children's Weight
Description: This research brief highlights a recent study on the connection between sleep and children's weight, and includes suggestions for parents.
Nutraceuticals, Phytochemicals, and Antioxidants-What Are They All About?
Author: Oliveri, Cindy
Description: This fact sheet provides definitions for nutraceuticals, phytochemicals,and
antioxidants and describes ways to include these important nutrients in a healthy diet.
Author: Nitzke, Susan
Description: This article provides an overview of how American's eating patterns have changed and the impact these changes have had on health.
Reclaiming the Family Table: Mealtimes and Child Health and Wellbeing
Author: Fiese, Barbara (1 more by this author); Marlene Schwartz
Description: This policy brief focuses on the protective benefits of family mealtime. For example, children who take part in regular family mealtimes have more vocabulary growth and academic achievement. Teens who eat five or more meals a week with their families are less likely to smoke cigarettes or marijuana and to abuse alcohol.
School Food Unwrapped: What’s Available and what our Kids Actually are Eating
Description: This Research Brief examines the prevalence of vending machines, school stores, and other outlets in elementary schools that often provide non-nutritious foods, the types of food and beverages sold within these outlets, and student consumption of food at school among a nationally representative sample of fifth-grade students.
State Case Studies of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Systems: Strategies for Change
Description: Profiles efforts to develop mental health identification and intervention systems for children up to age 5 in Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Examines hurdles, reform potentials, and lessons learned, including the role of partnerships.
Substance Use among Women During Pregnancy and Following Childbirth
Description: This report examines past month use of alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana among pregnant and parenting women aged 18 to 44 to shed light on how rapidly use of these substances resumes after childbirth. It differentiates pregnant women by trimester of pregnancy and recent mothers by age of the youngest child in the household.
Take Care of Your Health! An Extension Program to Prevent Diabetes
Description: The University of California Cooperative Extension worked with Latino and African American adults to develop diabetes prevention programs that motivate people to be proactive about their health, improve cooking practices and eating patterns, and be more physically active.
Targeting Interventions for Ethnic Minority and Low-Income Populations
Author: Kumanyika, Shiriki; Sonya Grier
Description: The authors summarize differences in childhood obesity prevalence by race and ethnicity and by socioeconomic status. They show how various environmental factors can have larger effects on disadvantaged and minority children than on their advantaged white peers—and thus contribute to disparities in obesity rates.
Description: This article describes the Nutrition Education in School Foodservice project, which aimed to take advantage of the potential of school foodservice settings to positively influence children's eating—both at school and at home.
Television viewing, computer use, obesity, and adiposity in US preschool children
Description: There is limited evidence in preschool children linking media use, such as television/video viewing and computer use, to obesity and adiposity. These researchers tested three hypotheses in preschool children: 1) that watching > 2 hours of TV/videos daily is associated with obesity and adiposity, 2) that computer use is associated with obesity and adiposity, and 3) that > 2 hours of media use daily is associated with obesity and adiposity.
The Pediatrician’s Role in Community Pediatrics
Description: This policy statement reaffirms the pediatrician’s role in community pediatrics. It offers pediatricians a definition of community pediatrics and provides a set of specific recommendations that underscore the critical nature of this important dimension of the
profession.
The Role of Parents in Preventing Childhood Obesity
Author: Lindsay, Ana; Steven Gortmaker; Juhee Kim; Katarina M. Sussner
Description: The authors review research evaluating school-based obesity-prevention interventions that include components targeted at parents. Although much research has been done on how parents shape their children's eating and physical activity habits, surprisingly few high-quality data exist on the effectiveness of such programs. The authors call for more programs and cost-effectiveness studies aimed at improving parents' ability to shape healthful eating and physical activity behaviors in their children.
Top Health Issues for LGBT Populations Information & Resource Kit
Description: The Top Health Issues for LGBT Populations Information & Resource Kit, provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), presents an overview of health issues among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. The kit aims to create awareness among prevention specialists and healthcare providers of the needs and health status of LGBT Americans.
What Does the Safety Net Accomplish?
Description: This series of reports examines the research on the impacts and accomplishments of government programs that assist low-income families and individuals. Each report includes state-by-state data on the number of the people assisted by the program.
What Works for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity Among Children
Description: This fact sheet includes short descriptions of the rigorously evaluated programs and whether they were found to work, not proven to work, or had mixed findings for nutrition, physical activity, and weight loss.
Working Group Report on Future Research Directions in Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment
Description: This report is a summary of the Working Group meeting to identify priorities for future research directions in childhood obesity prevention and treatment and the recommendations from the Working Group’s two panels.