Healthy Weight and Your Child - Introduction & Enrollment for FREE Summer Program
Date: June 11, 2026
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: (Get Directions)
Nir Family YMCA
2710 Market Street
Wilmington, NC 28403
Contact: Bridget Carroll
Phone: 910-251-9622 ext. 273
Email: [email protected]
Healthy Weight And Your Child
Do you have a child who is carrying excess weight? Would you like support to help you and your child make healthy lifestyle changes?
Through the YMCA's Evidence Based Healthy Weight & Your Child Program, you will meet others who share similar challenges. This program offers guidance with making lifestyle changes to help you and your child develop awareness, improve healthy eating, and discover fun ways to get more active.
This program is cost-efficient and effective in reducing a child’s body mass index, weight circumference, and sedentary behaviors and increasing physical activity and improving self-esteem.
This is a 15-week program. Classes are 2 hours long and meet twice a week for the first 10 weeks and then once a week for 5 weeks. We require families to attend an information session, or contact us to first see if their child qualifies for this program before registering.
Information and Enrollment Session - June 11, 2026, 5:00-6:30pm
Families will meet program leaders, learn more about the program and we will collect the parent(caregiver) and child's height and weight for baseline data. For enrollment, parent(caregiver) will need to complete and sign the enrollment forms during the Information Session.To Qualify
- Child must be 7-13 years old
- Child must carry excess weight, with a body mass index of the 95th percentile or higher
- Child must receive clearance from a healthcare provider or school nurse to participate in physical activity
- Adult MUST attend all sessions with child
Cost
FREE thanks to grant funding from CDC through Y-USA.
Register HERE.
