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Everyone has a role to play in reducing childhood obesity, including parents and caregivers, elected officials from all levels of government, schools, health care professionals, faith-based and community-based organizations, and private sector companies. Your involvement is key to ensuring a healthy future for our children.
Check out the list below for more ways to get involved with Let's Move!. You can also follow Let’s Move! on Facebook and Twitter, where you can get immediate updates about related activities and the latest news.
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For Parents
Parents and caregivers can set a great example for the whole family by creating a healthy environment at home. Join the Nutrition Communicators Network for free information on how to incorporate MyPlate into family meals. Earn Presidential Active Lifestyle Awards with your kids to encourage active lifestyles at home. Get updates from Let’s Move Outside on new ideas on what and where to play outdoors with your kids. Check out the following subscriptions for updates on fitness, health and outdoor fun:
- MyPlate Community Partnership
- President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition
- Let’s Move Outside
For Schools
School administrators, teachers, parents, students, and student services providers can work together to create a healthy school environment, where children have healthy meals at lunch and breakfast and opportunities to be physically active during the day.
- Take the HealthierUS School Challenge
- Apply for a salad bar for your school
- Partner with a local chef
For Community and Faith Leaders
First Lady Michelle Obama has challenged faith-based and community organizations to get involved in Let's Move Faith and Communities. We encourage you to take action to make your congregation or community a place of wellness.
For Local Elected Officials
No city, town or county is the same, and each one needs its own approach for solving childhood obesity. Let’s Move! Cities, Towns and Counties engages local elected officials by focusing on their unique ability to promote improved nutrition and increase physical activity at the local level.
- Become a Let's Move! City, Town or County
- Sign up on healthycommunitieshealthyfuture.org for Let's Move! Cities, Towns and Counties updates
For Chefs
Chefs have a unique ability to make good nutrition fun and appealing. Through the Chefs Move to Schools initiative, you can adopt a school and work closely with teachers, parents, school nutritionists and administrators in your community to introduce students to healthy food choices that are also delicious.
For Museums, Zoos, and Public Gardens
Join Let's Move! Museums & Gardens, a national initiative to provide opportunities for millions of museum and garden visitors to learn about healthy food choices and physical activity through interactive exhibits, children's afterschool and summer programs, and healthy food service.
For Tribal Leaders and Communities
The Let's Move! in Indian Country initiative seeks to support and advance the work that Tribal leaders and community members are already doing to improve the health of American Indian and Alaskan Native children.
Child Care Providers and Early Education Programs
Helping children learn healthy habits early, through child care and early education programs, is critical to solving the problem of childhood obesity within a generation. Let's Move! Child Care is a voluntary initiative to empower child care and early education providers to meet 5 goals: increasing physical activity, reducing screen time, improving food choices, providing healthy beverages, and supporting breast feeding.
- Sign up on HealthyKidsHealthyFuture.org for Let's Move! Child Care updates
For Health Care Providers
Health care professionals directly impact children’s health. Let’s Move in the Clinic is a voluntary effort by health care providers address childhood obesity. Working together with children and their families in clinics, practices, homes, schools and neighborhoods, health care professionals can make a real difference in solving the problem of childhood obesity.