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A course on obesity enabled Kim Powell to deliver her own training courses on healthy eating

With childhood obesity on the rise, practitioners are increasingly using preventive strategies. One is HENRY (Health Exercise Nutrition for the Really Young), a national programme used by the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust in North London. Oral health practitioner Kim Powell, who is based within the trust’s health visiting team, completed a two-day HENRY core training course and two-day group facilitation training in 2012. She says it changed her entire approach to working with parents.

HENRY practitioners trained Ms Powell at her London offices alongside nine colleagues. The course covered the subjects Ms Powell now delivers to parents, including healthy eating, parenting techniques and stress relief. The teaching was informal, with practitioners sitting in a circle. In the group facilitation training, the practitioners had to present part of the course as practice for future delivery.

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