Professional Exploration: Orgs in the space
- Oct 28, 2018
- 2 min read
Yuchen Tong 10/27/18
HopeLab:
HopeLab has focused on the health and well-being of teens and young adults. They built upon the link between behavioral science and physical health to encourage childhood physical activity, design family-strengthening tools for young mothers and their babies, and help teenagers cultivate emotion-regulating strategies and skills. To make the greatest impact, they’ve worked with like-minded partners to scale these interventions and deploy them where they’re needed most. The work they do is to use the power of design and technology to encourage childhood physical activity in an innovative and fun way, which is very effective for children, and generalizable.
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“Health optimization is achievable at every age, and engaging in healthy behaviors in adolescence is proven to have great impact on bending the curve over the long term and creating healthier, happier populations.” - Jeff Margolis, chairman and chief executive officer for Welltok.
Obesity Action Coalition
OAC’s core focuses are to raise awareness and improve access to the prevention and treatment of obesity, provide evidence-based education on obesity and its treatments, fight to eliminate weight bias and discrimination, elevate the conversation of weight and its impact on health and offer a community of support for the individual affected. Many people suffer from obesity because they don’t have enough knowledge to avoid it. What OAC does is to elevate and empower those affected by obesity through education, advocacy and support, which is very important from the root.
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“It is a complex disease that needs appropriate care and treatment!” - Ava, Community Member
C.H.O.I.C.E.S. (the Center Helping Obesity In Children End Successfully, Inc.)
C.H.O.I.C.E.S. helps the clinically diagnosed and at risk children of obesity and their parents tackle childhood obesity and live a healthier life through cooking classes, workshops, summer camps and health expos programs like Cooking with C.H.O.I.C.E.S., Camp Divas, Let's Move! DeKalb Back-to-School Expo. What they do is very practical and help children with obesity problem in specific day-to-day activities.
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“We are ‘supercharged’ to continue the journey towards eliminating childhood obesity and replacing that with healthy lifestyles and food choices.” - Lynne Scroggins, FACHE, Chair, C.H.O.I.C.E.S. Board of Directors
Action for Healthy Kids
Action for Healthy Kids calls for the actions from school, family and community, with an emphasis on the cooperation with local school. They are helping U.S. schools to provide healthy foods, quality health and physical education for students. These community level actions are very important that we need a better school environment where nutrition, physical education and physical activity supports learning to ensure all students are healthy, active and ready to learn.
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Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Healthier Generation has worked with schools, youth-serving organizations, businesses, and communities to empower kids to develop lifelong healthy habits by ensuring the environments that surround them provide and promote good health. Their work is at a high level that to create healthy changes that build upon one another and create a system, a nation, that ensures all kids can have healthy futures.
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