International Mission for the Prevention And
Continuous Treatment of Childhood Obesity ™
Developed by Dr. J. Allen Queen and Dr. Donald Schumacher
© Writer’s Edge Press®, 2010, 2009, 2003
Mission: To improve the unhealthy weight of all children in the world with an intense and continuing focus on students in America’s public schools.
Goal: To identify and disseminate effective practices in the fields of education, medicine and related health-based professions in preventing and reducing childhood obesity for preK-12 students.
Strategy: To provide prevention and intervention school-based programs through the development and implementation of specific action plans focused on the health and wellness needs of all students, preK-12.
Prevention efforts create environments that help children and youth of healthy weight to maintain that weight and guide and assist children and youth who are overweight from becoming obese and children and youth who are obese from becoming super obese.
Intervention efforts focus on the reversal of unhealthy weight in children and youth who are overweight using
IMPACT’s 21 Standards that assist districts and schools to promote healthy, realistic, and sustainable habits, behaviors, and attitudes of children, teachers, parents, and other professionals.
School Based Programs provide nutrition education and enhanced physical activity to students, teachers, and school staff and supportive information to parents and caregivers. Nutrition education (30 minutes a day) in the core curriculum is supported by healthy changes in the school nutrition program, vending machines, fund raisers and extra-curricular events. Physical activity (45-60 minutes a day) is embedded with well-defined lessons in major core areas of study. Supportive information includes strategies for helping parents and caregivers to adopt healthy practices within the home environment through a non-invasive but positive approach using changes that children are learning and practicing at school.
There are no direct costs to implement IMPACT or Register an Organized Group to support IMPACT Childhood Obesity. Districts and/or schools interested in becoming an
IMPACT Childhood Obesity Model School contact,
Dr. J. Allen Queen or check our
Speaker’s Bureau.
