NIH We Can

Current

• Save the date! at We Can! Website
• We Can! Ways to Enhance Children's Activity and Nutrition at The National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Past

• Save the date! at NIH

Connections

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Industry

Health, Wellness and Fitness

Websites

• We Can! Website
• We Can! Flash Animation
• We Can! Partners

NIH We Can’s Summary

We Can! stands for Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition and is a national education program designed for parents and caregivers of children ages 8-13 years old to help them maintain a healthy weight.

National and local organizations and corporations play a critical role in the effort to prevent obesity by supporting programs that teach families healthy life habits. The goal of the We Can! partnership is to build collaborations around preventive strategies and outreach efforts, and to leverage resources and communication channels to effectively and efficiently disseminate the We Can! messages and materials.

The role of We Can! partners varies by organization, and the program is designed to help channel an organization’s strengths, networks, and influence at national and local levels. We Can! recognizes that partners’ involvement will depend on the existing national and/or branded programs they may already have in place, the resources they can contribute, and their own infrastructure and reach.

We Can! is currently working with over 20 Fortune 500 companies to include the We Can! messages and parent programming in corporate wellness programs and community outreach. We Can! has also partnered with more than 950 communities and over 25 National Organizations to promote the program and reach out to families and communities across the country.

We Can! appreciates the commitment of these organizations and corporations who have agreed to serve as national partners. We invite additional Federal agencies, professional societies, community organizations, private industry, health care organizations, and others to join us and strengthen our efforts to help prevent childhood obesity and improve the health of America's youth.

Find partners at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/wecan/get-involved/partners.htm

Visit the We Can! website at http://wecan.nhlbi.nih.gov

NIH We Can’s Specialties:

Employee wellness, employee health, childhood overweight and obesity, healthy living, family health, community health, encouraging healthy eating, increasing physical activity, reducing sedentary or screen time

NIH We Can’s Experience

• Save the date!

  We Can! Website

  (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  November 2008 — Present (2 months)

  We Can! Power Talk about effective ways to raise funds for your programs on December 3.
  Find out more at
  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/wecan/news/calendar.htm#powertalk

• We Can! Ways to Enhance Children's Activity and Nutrition

  The National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  June 2005 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  We Can! is science-based and a collaboration of four institutes within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) –
  
  - The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  - The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  - The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  - The National Cancer Institute
  
  NIH developed the program with a focus on three main areas of overweight and obesity – encouraging healthy eating, increasing physical activity, and reducing sedentary or screen time.
  
  We Can! builds partnerships around preventive strategies and outreach efforts and leverages resources and communication channels to effectively and efficiently disseminate messages and materials.
  
  We Can! offers posters for use in key worksite locations, e-mail messages for employees, brown bag lunch sessions, and materials for corporate health fairs. We Can! also connects employee programs across the country to community sites that are involved with We Can!

• Save the date!

  NIH

  (Government Agency; Research industry)

  November 2008 — November 2008 (1 month)

  We Can! Power Talk about effective ways to raise funds for your programs on December 3.
  Find out more at
  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/wecan/news/calendar.htm#powertalk

Additional Information

NIH We Can’s Websites:

• We Can! Website
• We Can! Flash Animation
• We Can! Partners

NIH We Can’s Interests:

Meeting and working with human resources and employee wellness directors, worksites, caregivers, community-based organizations, schools and universities, hospitals and health care settings, parks and recreations centers, health professionals, physicians, teachers, students, administrators, health departments, civic leaders, professional societies, corporations

NIH We Can’s Groups:

- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- The National Cancer Institute

View We Can! partners at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/wecan/get-involved/partners.htm

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