Imagine nutrition education that parents and children will understand and embrace.  Dr. Sears has shown families that  living and eating healthy does not need to be difficult or overwhelming.

Providing Head Start and Early Head Start parents and children effective nutrition education can be a challenge at times.  Often parents are unable to grasp the information or obtain tools that will help them move towards healthier eating or more physical activity.  All to often group education falls short in attendance or family service workers are unable to impact sustainable change in the home.

“As the Executive Director of SSDN, a Head Start preschool in St. Louis, Missouri, it was critical to me that we develop and implement a nutrition education program that made efficient and effective use of our grant money in a manner that best educated our diverse staff, students and families.  The LEAN program information and LEAN Coach Becky Bishop are an excellent fit for our school.   Becky tailored the LEAN information to match our school’s needs by developing a grocery list and recipes that fit into our families’ budgets and time constraints.  The traffic light eating game and information she provided during  visits to our students’ homes was easy to remember and provided simple and meaningful guidelines to help teachers, parents and students become life-long healthy eaters.  Thank you LEAN and Becky for making us a healthier school!”

–Anne Kessen Lowell, Executive Director South Side Day Nursery, St. Louis, MO

Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. provides simple, convenient, cost-effective way to teach families about good nutrition.  Parents benefit from more structure, increased opportunities for exercise at home, and balanced meals made with real, whole food.  Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. workshops can help you offer effective, affordable solutions within your community.

Dr. William Sears, along with exercise physiologist Sean Foy, have created a series of interactive, clinically proven workshops to help families embrace four pillars of health: Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitude, and Nutrition.  Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. workshops provide simple, easy-to-implement tools for making nutrition education fun and engaging.  This proven approach provides participants with all the tools necessary for sustaining health and wellness. In addition, the readily-available materials are simple and easy for participants to understand, from expectant and nursing moms, to parents and their children.

Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Workshops Will Help Your Head Start Facility:

•    Offer nutrition education in an engaging, interactive format that is easy for families to understand
•    Include tools that families can implement with ease
•    Make healthy eating accessible and affordable, even for families on a tight budget
•    Teach families how to play and exercise using everyday household items
•    Set an example by sharing these same tools and strategies with the staff

Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. + Grant Recipients:  An Ideal Match

Certified Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Coaches are available throughout the U.S.  Search for a certified coach in your area, or participate in turn-key training so that you can share our workshops and materials with families you serve. This would allow trained family service workers in your area to bring all of the Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. materials and interactive tools directly into clients’ homes.

Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Workshops

Each of the following practical, affordable Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. workshops includes simple, easy-to-implement tools that make nutrition education fun, interactive, and engaging:

Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Start is a series of six one-hour nutrition education classes for parents of children ages 3-12.  Each class can be taught to a group of parents or adapted to suit the needs of parents and their children, collectively.  Each class also includes fun, interactive activities, lots of healthy snacks, and engaging DVD segments which allow participants to absorb the material in a variety of ways.  Participants also receive an 80-page Parents’ and Caregivers’ Guide, along with an activity book for their children, to help them implement incremental nutrition changes at home.

Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Essentials is a one-time, two-hour class that introduces the basic concepts covered in Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Start.  This is ideal for families that may not have much time, or who may want to experience a Dr. Sears L.E.A.N. workshop before committing to a series of classes.

Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Expectations is a series of three classes that teach pregnant women how to best care for themselves and their babies during any stage of pregnancy.  This would be ideal for Head Start programs who want to help whole families to embrace good nutrition and overall wellness.