Strategy 2.3
Utilize Children’s Colorado touch points with families to help increase access to
healthy food, physical activity, and healthy lifestyle services and supports.
Tactic: Screen for access to healthy food and physical activity for patients at clinic
visits. This is currently being piloted in the Child Health Clinic (primary care) and can
be expanded to other Children’s Colorado clinics and community health providers.
Tactic: Continue to operate and evaluate existing CHAI healthy lifestyle
programming and collaborations available to Children’s Colorado patients, such
as Bikes for Life, Camp Champions, Cooking Matters, Girls on the Run. Provide
technical assistance to other providers interested in offering these types of
programs for the children they serve.
Setting / Delivery Mechanism
Providers - Children’s Hospital Colorado will partner with other community
health clinic and pediatric practice providers to assess needs and develop a
coordinated response involving one or more of the tactics listed above.
Schools - Children’s Hospital Colorado will partner with schools and other
school based providers to assess needs and develop a coordinated response
involving one or more of the tactics listed above.
Home - Hospital and community based community health workers will
utilize questionnaires to assess a child/family’s needs and connect them with
appropriate resources and supports based on needs. Referrals will be tracked
and evaluated for effectiveness.
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