P14: Families Eating Smart and Moving More

Abstract

Families Eating Smart and Moving More (FESMM) is a program that offers families simple solutions to help them eat smart and move more. FESMM gives families the skills to be able to eat more meals at home, eat healthy when eating out, move more in their everyday routine and watch less television. Focus group data guided the development of the program. The program includes four modules: Eating Smart at Home - simple solutions for planning, shopping, fixing and eating more meals at home, Eating Smart on the Run - skills to choose wisely when eating foods away from home, Moving More, Everyday, Everywhere - incorporating activity into your everyday routine, and Moving More, Watching Less - simple strategies to help turn off the TV and turn on to other opportunities. Multiple strategies have been employed to deliver FESMM including PowerPoint presentations for family workshops and flip chart for use with individual clients. Multimedia components of the program include video vignettes an interactive CD (Fast Food & Families). Collateral materials designed to help families implement healthy eating and physical activity behaviors are included in the program. FESMM employs the train the trainer model. Agents with Cooperative Extension and other health professionals with the county health department were trained to deliver the program. FESMM is currently being delivered in multiple settings including WIC clinics and family physician offices. Lessons learned and information about implementation and evaluation of the program will be presented.