Resources for Parents & Carers
Communication
- HSE Talking to your child about health and weight
- HSE: Talking to your child about weight
- safefood: A Guide for Parents- Communicating with your Child about a Healthy Weight
- Safefood ‘Stopping Obesity Stigma-a priority for all’
- safefood: START Webinar- How Parents Can Start a Conversation About Reducing the Amount of Treat Foods their Children Eat
- Opening the Conversation on Obesity podcast
Growth Monitoring
Intervention/Treatment
- Healthy Living with CHI, CHI Child and Adolescent Complex Obesity Service
- Changing Together Weight Management Service
- Podcast: What Happens in A Childhood Obesity Service?
- HSE Healthy Weight for Children
- Safefood/HSE: START your child on a healthy lifestyle booklet
- 8 Healthy Habits
- CHI Healthy Living Booklet
- HSE Your guide to building healthier habits with your child
Nutrition
- Department of Health: The Food Pyramid
- Department of Health: The Food Pyramid (Child Version)
- Department of Health: Serving-Size-Guide
- Department of Health: Meal Plans
- HSE: Healthy Eating For Families
- Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute Booklet
- HSE/Safefood START campaign: Tips on How to Prepare a Healthy Lunchbox
- Safefood: Let’s go easy on the treats START video advertisement
- Safefood video: How to say no to treats
- Safefood video: Dealing with tantrums in relation to treats
- Safefood: Tackling treats
- Safefood: 101+ Square Meals. Easy recipes for everyday life
- NHS: Food labels
- Spunout: Healthy Eating
Mental Health
Physical Activity and Fitness
- Move4health Website
- HSE: Teaching Your Children to Be Active
- Accessible activities
- HSE Active Play Every Day An introduction to Active Play Guidelines for 0-3 year old children
- HSE Active Play Every Day An introduction to Active Play Guidelines for 3-6 year old children
- Safefood video: How much Physical Activity do Children Need?
- Safefood video: The benefits of an active family
- Safefood video: How to be more active as a family
- Get Ireland Active
- Active Healthy Me (Active Disability Ireland)
Sedentary Time
Sleep
Support Services
- Jigsaw
- Spunout
- Barnardos
- Barnardos Parent Resources
- Central Remedial Clinic
- Enable Ireland
- Crosscare
- Don Bosco Care
- Irish Foster Care Association
- Cuidiu
- Cairde
- Pavee Point
- HSE: Community Cooking Programmes
- Safefood: Community Food Initiatives
- Slaintecare Healthy Communities
- Parenting courses
- Parents Plus
- Family Resource Centre National Forum
Additional Links
- ASOI: The Association for the Study of Obesity on the Island of Ireland
- EASO: European Association for the Study of Obesity
- ICPO: Irish Coalition for People Living with Obesity
- The LANDSCAPE Child and Adolescent Obesity Project
- RCSI MyHealth Podcast ‘Addressing Obesity Stigma and Bias to Strengthen Healthcare in Ireland’
- HSE, ASOI & ICPO Event 2021 ‘Overweight and Obesity Let’s Talk’
- HSE, ASOI & ICPO Event 2022 ‘Overweight and Obesity Let’s Talk’