Child Healthy Weight Directory of Support Services
Child Healthy Weight (CHW) Intervention Guides
The Intervention guides provide prompts to support professionals having holistic conversations with children and families about healthy weight. Having these conversations is essential to understanding individual needs, motivation, and interests. We encourage professionals to use these guides alongside the Child Healthy Weight directory to effectively connect families to the right support as early as possible. The Intervention Guides are based on the 3 A’s framework from Make Every Contact Count (MECC). MECC conversations are person-centred and focused on jointly understanding an individual’s capability and motivation to make positive changes. They are often about ‘planting a seed’ and supporting someone to access the resources they need, to make change happen.