Maternal Weight Strategy Collaboration
Below are the maternal weight strategies listed in order of stakeholder priority ranking. Please indicate your level(s) of collaboration from the dropdown list under each strategy.

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Expand Cooking Matters to members of community (e.g. teens, parents of young children, WIC clients and college students).
Collaborate with Colorado Department of Education and SNAP-Ed to develop a course for elementary, middle and high school students to learn and apply life skills for health (e.g. nutrition, physical activity, peer pressure, social connection and resilience).
Standardize referral policies to nutrition and healthy weight resources for OBGYNs and care providers.
Initiate statewide campaign to address the issue of rising weights of women in Colorado.
Integrate information about maternal weight into medical and nursing school curriculum.
Extend Rethink Your Drink/Healthy Beverage Partnership statewide.
Partner with grocery stores to improve access to healthy low-cost foods and regulate access to unhealthy foods.
Address nutrition insecurity by formalizing a process for fresh produce and healthy food donation to food pantries through legislation that limits less healthy, highly processed and packaged foods.
Expand farm to preschool statewide with Farm to Preschool Network.
Develop and implement a plan to increase provider awareness and address behaviors around poor health outcomes for mom and baby associated with maternal overweight and obesity.
Explore funding for expansion of Weigh and Win to WIC.
Increase the number of family-friendly workplaces especially those that impact caregivers of young children.
Explore getting nutrition education programs such as “Chopped” into elementary schools, high schools and colleges to build cooking and gardening skills.
Create and implement a guide for how public health and community resource programs can work with Parks and Rec to increase access to green space.
Raise awareness by presenting maternal weight information at local, state and national health and public health conferences.
Engage hosts of prenatal classes in developing positive messages, evidence-based information and resources about maternal weight using sensitive language.
Collaborate with health partners and enhance higher education access to wellness, physical activity and nutrition education.
Introduce and promote gardening/composting/farming on all types of school campuses.
Turn Silver Sneakers program into a mentoring program and create one for women and families to explore the intergenerational approach.
Integrate with the Latino Initiative Diabetes Prevention Program for Gestational Diabetes, and increase referrals to the National Diabetes Prevention Program for minority populations.
Outreach and provide training across all levels of health, wellness and interested professionals to increase the pool of potential educators.
Enhance Weigh and Win’s software to use during pregnancy to track weight and encourage appropriate weight gain.
Adapt informative texting service similar to the Bright by Three model that sends nonjudgmental positive messages, information and resources about maternal weight.
Advocate for community Regional Accountable Entities (RAEs)and explore obesity performance indicator funded by Medicaid.
Create talking points for community members to discuss at City Council Meetings regarding health objectives to advocate they be written into city strategic plans and generate funding.
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