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Involving the Family for Long-Term Success

Many Wellspring families report they lose weight right along with their child.  In fact, family surveys immediately following camp indicate that 40% of families lose more than 20 lbs.  Add that weight loss to their child’s weight loss, and you have entire families losing weight and getting significantly healthier together.

Family Workshops

Wellspring researchers have demonstrated that families who are involved in their child’s progress and work to provide a supportive, healthy environment at home are more likely to see their child continue weight loss at home.

While this result isn’t surprising, it demonstrates how important family involvement actually is for long-term weight control, and why so many Wellspring families spend 2 days with Wellspring professionals at the end-of-camp Family Workshops.

Wellspring Family Workshops are comprehensive in that they provide parents with a mini-immersion into each aspect of the Wellspring program. Parents are provided with all the tools that campers receive (e.g., pedometers, self-monitoring journals, Calorie Kings) and asked to follow the program for two days. Then parents participate in a series of lectures and seminars from Wellspring clinical, activity, nutrition and culinary professionals. The purpose is to make sure parents are returning home with the same basic knowledge as their children.

The highlight of the weekend workshop is the development of the transition plan for home. Families meet with Wellspring Behavioral Coaches to determine how they will continue to support weight loss at home – what changes will be made, and how they will work to continue to role model the behaviors required for successful long-term weight control.

Because Wellspring is certain of the importance of a supportive home environment, an additional incentive is provided: the full cost of the workshop is refunded to families who attend.