Free Healthy Lifestyle Support for Your Family
Arrange a one-to-one appointment with one of Dudley’s Family Wellness Coaches, who will help you and your kids create healthier habits you can all stick to.
The Family Healthy Lifestyle Service is a free and personalised support service, to meet the needs of your family.
What to expect from the service:
- A 60-minute initial appointment with your dedicated Family Wellness Coach. This can either be face to face, a video chat or telephone call – whichever suits your needs.
- You can come to the appointment by yourself or with your child/children – you can decide what will suit your family best.
- The appointment will be an informal chat about your family’s lifestyle and any challenges you’re facing trying to maintain healthy habits.
- By the end of the appointment, you’ll have a simple action plan for reaching the goals you identify with your Family Wellness Coach.
- Your Family Wellness Coach will tell you about all the local activities and services that are available to you and your family to help you get more active and eat well.
- With your consent you and your family may be referred onto other more specialised lifestyle services if you feel that would be helpful.
- You will also be offered up to 12 free follow-up appointments to see how you’ve been getting on and offer you further support and motivation if required.
To make an appointment email yourhealth.dudley@nhs.net , visit Your Health Dudley or call 01384 732402 / 07768876666 / 07425 476391
Healthy steps programme for families
How Healthy Steps works
Parents/carers can sign up at any time by completing a quiz about their current eating and physical activity habits. Once they’ve completed the quiz they will receive weekly emails on one of these three themes, based on their quiz results:
• reducing sugar
• eating 5 a day
• meal planning
The emails will give parents/carers low-cost, easy and practical ways for the whole family to eat better and move more. As part of the programme, families are set goals or tasks to complete every other week, such as swapping out sugary fizzy drinks for a week, or adding fruit or veg to their breakfasts. Regular feedback points and an end-of-programme survey give families the opportunity to celebrate their successes, or get further tips from Better Health on making changes that they’ve found hard.
The data that is collected through these surveys will be anonymised and aggregated to measure behaviour change, using the behaviours captured via the initial sign-up quiz as a benchmark.
Further details about the programme and how to sign up can be found here.
