The role of the Family Interventionist will be to facilitate one-on-one, in-person and phone informational sessions parents/guardians of pre-adolescent youth in grades 5-7 in the Boston Area. Sessions will focus on helping parents encourage healthy eating and exercise habits as a family and strategies to reduce weight stigma from family members. Each in-person session will last approximately one hour, and phone sessions approximately thirty minutes. Sessions will take place at a public location (e.g. coffee shop, public library, community center, school) or in special circumstances, via video conference. Parents will receive a handbook on nutrition, physical activity and talking about weight that they will be instructed to read before attending the in-person session. The Interventionist will discuss the information provided in the handbook, counsel parents on how to foster habits with their adolescent teen. The Interventionist will also answer questions as-needed based on the information provided in the parent handbook.
