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Programs
Let's Get Movin'
Giving our kids a healthy start.
 Special note: The Discovery Health Channel recently featured the Let's Get Movin' program as part of a series on addressing childhood obesity. You can watch our clip online (we're in Part 3), or find out when the entire program is airing next.
It’s a hot summer day in East Boston, and a group of teenage girls are playing soccer in the sun. And they’re loving it. They’re also getting in shape—losing weight, and learning how to eat and exercise to keep the weight off. They’re part of our new program to reduce childhood obesity in our community.
When we saw that the national epidemic of childhood obesity was creating a variety of problems in our own neighborhood, we developed a plan to address this vitally important issue: Let’s Get Movin’, a lifestyle-change program for children and teens living in East Boston, Chelsea, Winthrop, and Revere.
Let’s Get Movin’ is centered on exercise, nutritional education, and medical monitoring. We offer after-school and summer programs, as well as educational seminars for adults who want to learn more about supporting their children’s healthier lifestyle.
We appreciate our participants’ complex lives, and provide ongoing support to keep children and families involved and motivated. We speak many languages. Our activities are fun as well as healthy and educational. And because we understand that the best program is no help if participants can’t get there, we provide door-to-door transportation.
The program is fully integrated with medical services provided at EBNHC, and designed with the best medical practices of our physicians and other clinicians. Participation is based on a diagnosis of overweight or obesity by a child’s physician, who monitors progress and overall health on an ongoing basis.
Let’s Get Movin’ works in proud collaboration with Urban Youth Sports, a program of Sport in Society at Northeastern University.
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