Shape Up SF’s 5 Minute Snapshot:

Health ChampionsCalifornia Pacific Medical Center

Supporting healthier lifestyles for children, families and

communities

March 12, 2008

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• Our aim: to improve the health status of children and adolescents in San Francisco by promoting healthy eating and physical activity.

• Our commitment: to work with communities which are the most impacted by environmental barriers and to support families in creating and sustaining healthy practices.

Who We Are

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• Primary Prevention – Health Champions School-Based

• Treatment – Health Champions MOVE Clinic– Health Champions MOVE Classes

What We Do

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• Our vision: to extend beyond traditional disease education and to change schools themselves, integrating healthy practices into the school environment so that

students experience health as well as learn about it. • Our goal: to permeate each school day with

opportunities for nutrition and physical activity and to establish the teacher buy-in and policy support to maintain these activities.

School-Based

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• Program Description:Our school-based program has worked with over

3000 families, students, and school staff to increase physical activity and healthy eating opportunities in San Francisco Schools since 1999.

• School Communities:Lawton Alternative School (K-8) 1999 to 2003Rooftop Alternative School (K-8) 1999 to 2003De Marillac Academy (4-8) 2004 to presentMcKinley Elementary School (K-5) 2004 to present

School-Based

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• Pediatric Weight Management Program– Combine best practices in pediatric weight

management to address overweight.– Our goals are to work with children and families to

achieve weight maintenance or weight loss and to develop healthier lifestyles.

MOVE

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• Clinic Description:• Multidisciplinary team of medical professionals• Full medical assessment and follow-up appointments

• When: Mondays 8-12pm & 4-6pm

• Who: 2-18 years olds with a BMI at or above the 85th percentile for age on the 2000 CDC growth charts

• Where: CPMC Pediatric Specialty Clinic

3700 California St. B555

MOVE Clinic

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• Class Description:– 13 week family group classes – Taught by behavior coaches

• Who: 8-13 years olds with a BMI at or above the 85th percentile for age on the 2000

CDC growth charts and their families

• Where: Bayview Child Health Center 1335 Evans Street

• When: Tuesdays, 4-6pm

MOVE Classes

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Amy Adkins, MEdHealth Champions ManagerCommunity Health Programs Department415-600-4523adkinsa@sutterhealth.org

Aimee Marcich, MPH, CHESHealth Champions MOVE Program CoordinatorCommunity Health Programs Department415-600-2975marcical@sutterhealth.org

Contacts

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