Let's Go! Toolkits & Promotional Items

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Description

Let’s Go! is a community-based initiative to promote healthy lifestyle choices for children, youth, and families. The goal is to improve healthy eating and increase physical activity for children and youth—from birth to 18 years old.

The Let's Go! Web site offers toolkits for the following settings:

School K-5
Middle school and high school
After school
Childcare
Workplace
Health care

The Web site also provides resources for parents, including brochures, booklets, and fact sheets.

Select materials are available in Spanish.

Links to the Tool:
This tool is available at: http://www.letsgo.org/toolkits/

Developer

Let's Go!

Funding Sources

MaineHealth; Maine Medical Center; United Way of Greater Portland; Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation; Hannaford Bros. Co.; TD Charitable Foundation; Unum; Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation

QualityTool Topic

Disease/Condition-Related; Prevention and wellness

History

Release Date: 08/2008
Original Summary: 06/2010

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QualityTool Classification

Disease/Clinical Category:

Exercise

Nutrition

Patient Population:

Adolescent (13-18 years)

Preschooler (2-5 years)

Stage of Care: