Child & Adolescent Tool Kit for Healthcare Providers

Overweight & Obesity

Activity & Nutrition Tool Kit for Children & Adolescents

This Tool Kit is for healthcare providers treating youth in their practice. In Missouri, more than 14% of middle school students and more than 13% of high school students are overweight. The number of overweight children has doubled in the past two decades and continues to climb.

How will this tool kit impact your practice?

Healthcare providers play an important role in helping children and adolescents maintain or achieve a healthy weight and in preventing future obesity. The Healthcare Work Group from the Missouri Council for Activity and Nutrition (MoCAN) has developed this Tool Kit to help providers effectively screen, assess and treat youth with weight issues. The Tool Kit resources summarize recommendations from the scientific literature and expert work groups related to child and adolescent obesity.

The Child and Adolescent Tool Kit contains the following valuable resources:
All toolkit resources in (.pdf) format

1. Introduction on Managing Overweight Children and Adolescents
2. Family Lifestyle Self-Assessment
3. Family Pledge & Goal Log
4. Pocket Guide: “Screening and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight”
5. Healthy Families: Tips for Parents
6. MyPyramid for Kids
7. MyPyramid for Kids - Advanced
8. BMI Wheel
9. BMI-for-Age Percentiles Growth Charts
10. Stature for Age Percentiles Growth Charts
11. Blood Pressure Tables
12. Blood Cholesterol Classification Chart
13. Addendum Assessment and Counseling Form for Pediatric Overweight
14. State of Missouri Consensus Screening Guidelines for Pre-diabetes and Diabetes
15. Expert Committee Recommendations on Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity
16. Resource Listing
17. Evaluation Form

Order your Tool Kit

The Tool Kit can be ordered online or by mail using the order form.

The complete Tool Kit is also available for download.