Let’s Go! Healthcare
Getting Started

How can you become a Let’s Go! Practice? Complete the following three components:

1. Connect to your community and the Let’s Go! community efforts by hanging a Let’s Go! poster in your waiting and exam rooms.
2. Accurately weigh and measure patients by determining Body Mass Index (BMI), BMI percentile, and weight classification in patients more than two years of age. Use these charts: Girls   Boys
3. Facilitate respectful conversations with your patients around weight by using the 5210 Healthy Habits Questionnaires: (2-9 yo)  (10-18)

Interested? Here’s how to get started. Review these two documents:

1. Getting Started in Your Practice: Screening, prevention, and treatment of obesity are not like many of the other medical conditions you may have addressed in the past. Addressing this growing challenge may require new techniques for your office to learn; the words you use with your patients and families may need to be adjusted to reflect the sensitive nature of weight issues in our culture; and there really isn’t a simple cure. All of this may make you wary of starting this work; however our patients are looking to us to help them. You don’t need to take on the whole epidemic of obesity. Let’s Go! is working in our schools, childcare centers and at the local, state and national level to help our patients and families make healthy choices around physical activity and healthy eating.
   

   Getting Started in Your Practice

2. Things to think about BEFORE a practice starts measuring BMI: This document reviews 8 things to consider as your site considers working towards becoming a Let’s Go! Practice.
   

   Things to think about BEFORE a practice starts measuring BMI

Access the Let’s Go! Childhood Obesity Resource Toolkit for Healthcare Professionals here.