University of Illinois at Chicago

BodyWorks is a program designed to help parents and caregivers of girls ages 9 to 13 improve family eating and activity habits. Using the BodyWorks Toolkit, the program focuses on parents as role models and provides them with hands-on tools to make small, specific behavior changes to prevent obesity and help maintain a healthy weight.

The BodyWorks program uses a train-the-trainer model to distribute the Toolkit through community-based organizations, state health agencies, non-profit organizations, health clinics, hospitals and health care systems. The program includes one six-hour training module for trainers and ten 90-minute weekly sessions for parents and caregivers.

The Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, developed BodyWorks following two years of formative research.

BodyWorks Resources

For the BodyWorks Powerpoint presentation, visit:
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/womenshealth/BodyWorks.ppt

Recruitment Materials:

• Flyers (Adobe Acrobat File - 375 Kb)
• Sample news release (Microsoft Word File - 22 Kb)
• Sample paragraph