Strategy 1.3
Lead educational classes and programs for families to build knowledge and skills about
healthy lifestyles
Tactic: Continue to provide the evidence based Cooking Matters for Kids, Cooking Matters
for Families and Cooking Matters Grocery Store Tour classes for Children’s Colorado
patients on site at the main hospital campus. The program teaches low income families
nutrition, healthy meal preparation, and how to shop for affordable healthy foods. Assess
the need and capacity to offer the courses at other locations, either in Children’s Colorado
Network of Care or in collaboration with other community based partners.
Tactic: Continue to refer families directly to educational offerings made available by our
community partners and track effectiveness of these referrals.
Tactic: Assess need and capacity to pursue additional educational offerings
and partnerships.
Setting / Delivery Mechanism
Providers – Children’s Colorado as well as other community health clinic and
pediatric practice providers will refer families to educational offerings at Children’s
Colorado or in the community and document the referrals so partnerships can be
analyzed for effectiveness.
Schools – Children’s Colorado school nurse team as well as other school based
providers will refer families to educational offerings at Children’s Colorado or in
the community and document the referrals so partnerships can be analyzed for
effectiveness.
Community – Children’s Health Advocacy Institute (CHAI) Prevention, Education,
Outreach, and Coordination team will operate and provide technical assistance for
healthy lifestyle educational programming for families.
Home - Hospital and community based community health workers and educators
refer families to educational offerings at Children’s Colorado or in the community
and document the referrals so partnerships can be analyzed for effectiveness.
Additionally, the community health team may conduct family education.
Internal Resources
OO Children’s
OO Lifestyle
Health Advocacy Institute (CHAI)
Medicine and Primary Care
External Partners
Partners will be defined based on targeted communities for intervention. Current partners
include but are not limited to:
OO Cooking
Matters/Share our Strength
OO American
Familia
OO YMCA
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Diabetes Association/Por tu
OO Girls
on the Run
OO City
of Aurora
OO Other
community based organizations