Healthy Habits for Hampton Roads

Healthy Habits for Hampton Roads is an initiative of the Center which focuses on healthier lifestyles for Hampton Roads' citizens, particularly for children. The issue of childhood overweight and obesity is an important part of our work, but the overall initiative goals are to increase awareness of this important community issue and empower citizens to work toward solutions individually and collectively.

Healthy Habits for Hampton Roads was made possible through a grant from Obici.

Specific Initiatives

  
    Pre-K Education

    K-5th Grade

    Faith-based Communities
          - Coming Soon!

Surviving Abundance: Overweight Kids in Crisis

This half-hour documentary, produced by WHRO, examines the epidemic of childhood obesity. Childhood health professionals paint a grim picture for the future of overweight children unless we begin to make systemic changes that support more healthy choices.  Local, state and national childhood health experts, including William H. Dietz, Jr., MD, PhD, Director of Nutrition & Physical Activity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discuss steps we can take to turn the tide. The program highlights organizations with exemplary programs which encourage healthier lifestyles.

Surviving Abundance was produced in collaboration with the Consortium for Infant and Child Health (CINCH), a community partnership to promote health and prevent disease among all children in Hampton Roads.

Watch "Surviving Abundance: Overweight Kids in Crisis"

For more information, click here to contact The Center for Regional Citizenship.