While children have more influence over their eating and physical activity habits than many people realize, it is important to reach the children's parents and families too. The best way to do this is to create opportunities within the program for the young people to share what they are learning with their parents and families. Healthy Children Healthy Futures has two main strategies for involving and reaching out to parents: sharing the parent postcards, and sharing the media messaging the young people create. The expected outcomes for all parent activities are:
1) increased parent awareness regarding healthy eating and physical activity, and
2) increased youth interaction with parents.
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