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Recommended Criteria for Healthy Together Coaches:

• Qualification in areas including education, nutrition or dietetics, physical activity, behavior change, social work, psychology
• Experience facilitating groups
• Experience working with children and parents
• Recommend background check for all coaches, but particularly if coaches are alone with children
• Coaches should only recommend MEND nutritional guidelines and principles

Modular, electronically delivered curriculum includes 10 one-hour interactive families’ sessions and 10 one-hour parents only sessions. Included with subscription is the Coach’s Starter Kit which contains all of the key demonstration resources needed to effectively deliver Healthy Together:

• Fats and sugars box: a plastic box with clip handles that contains 12 empty plastic bottles and 6 resealable plastic bags, together with instructions about how to build the Fats and sugars kit, and grain sample bags.
• Demonstration pack: a shrink-wrapped print pack containing laminated examples of food labels, together with “cheat” sheets for the coach.
• Poster pack: nutrition targets poster, nutrition target covers and food-group pictures for use by the coach

Replenishable Family Materials (For 12 families):

• Family learning packs: Parents’ and Kids’ handbooks with helpful information for families, covering each topic discussed in the program.
• Other resources: Detective cards-credit card sized resources to help guide families through the label-reading steps, conveniently sized to fit into a wallet so families can carry it with them when they visit a supermarket. Good things about me posters and Goals and Rewards star charts.