Activities

The COI Healthcare Workgroup is comprised of healthcare stakeholders and advocates who support healthy eating and active living. Partners participating in the COI’s Healthcare Workgroup conduct the following activities in support of the strategies included in the COI’s Childhood Obesity Action Plan:

• Provide leadership to prevent childhood obesity across all healthcare settings in a collaborative manner
• Engage healthcare stakeholders to support and advocate for childhood obesity through healthy policy, systems, and environmental changes
• Provide training, resources, support, and technical assistance to healthcare domain stakeholders and others
• Provide a forum in which healthcare domain stakeholders can share and leverage resources and best practices
• Support projects and activities in other COI workgroups related to healthcare

Key Focus Areas for the Next Two Years

The Healthcare Workgroup identified four focus areas for the next two years:

• Understanding and responding to primary providers’ needs.
• Providing health resources to other COI domains./li>
• Integrate behavioral health and ACEs.
• Hosting a provider workshop focused on trauma-informed nutrition and social determinants of health.

For a more detailed description of workgroup activities, please refer to the workplan.