UnitedHealthcare and Sesame Workshop Team up to Help Families Grow in Healthy Ways
September 10 2020 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Sesame Street Muppets to join experts on
webinar that offers resources to keep families connected
UnitedHealthcare and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational
organization behind Sesame Street, are co-creating a webinar
designed to keep grandparents and their grandchildren connected
during COVID-19. The effort, part of an ongoing collaboration
between UnitedHealthcare and Sesame Workshop, is launching on
National Grandparents Day, Sunday, Sept. 13.
The Growing Every Day, Every Way virtual webinar will celebrate
National Grandparents Day by bringing families together with their
grandparents and providing ideas for healthy activities they can do
in person, or apart. The webinar will provide families and
grandparents with resources to help them access affordable and
nutritious food, maximize their health benefits and offer easy ways
families can incorporate physical activity into their daily lives.
Families can watch the webinar featuring some of their favorite
Sesame Street Muppets at www.grandparentsday.com.
Sesame Workshop and UnitedHealthcare have worked together to
address a variety of well-being initiatives including food
insecurity, lead safety, asthma and healthy habits since 2010.
UnitedHealthcare and Sesame Workshop’s Growing Every Day, Every Way
program offers free bilingual (English and Spanish) educational
materials including:
- Food for Thought: Eating Well on a Budget, designed to help
support families who are coping with uncertain or limited access to
affordable and nutritious food.
- We Have the Moves, which encourages families to participate in
regular physical activity to help children build strong bones and
muscles, improve their social and emotional skills, and support
their ability to learn new concepts.
- Ages and Stages, which provides parents with resources to help
them keep infants, toddlers and preschoolers healthy by building an
understanding of their child’s physical and cognitive developmental
milestones.
“UnitedHealthcare is grateful for the opportunity to partner
with Sesame Workshop – a leader in early childhood education – to
offer tools that can help caregivers create a healthy foundation
for kids,” said Tim Spilker, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Community &
State. “We look forward to co-hosting the Growing Every Day, Every
Way webinar that encourages children, their grandparents and
families to spend National Grandparents Day eating healthy food,
getting active and having fun, even if it can’t be an in-person
celebration.”
Since Food for Thought launched in 2010, Sesame Workshop has
unveiled independent research indicating the program has been
successful in helping families increase their knowledge, beliefs
and behaviors around nutrition. The research found that within four
weeks, nearly three in four families participating in the program
reported making positive nutritional changes including seeking
information on how to cope with food insecurity, taking steps to
save money on food, and making changes to promote healthy eating in
the family.
“Together with UnitedHealthcare, we can help to improve the
health of families across generations,” said Dr. Jeanette
Betancourt, SVP, U.S. Social Impact at Sesame Workshop. “We’re
thrilled to celebrate the important role that grandparents play in
young children’s lives and help them create healthy habits that
will stay with children for the rest of their lives.”
To learn more about Growing Every Day, Every Way, visit
www.grandparentsday.com.
About Sesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit educational organization behind
Sesame Street, the pioneering television show that has been
reaching and teaching children since 1969. Today, Sesame Workshop
is an innovative force for change, with a mission to help kids
everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. We’re present in
more than 150 countries, serving vulnerable children through a wide
range of media, formal education, and philanthropically-funded
social impact programs, each grounded in rigorous research and
tailored to the needs and cultures of the communities we serve. For
more information, please visit www.sesameworkshop.org.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people live healthier
lives and making the health system work better for everyone by
simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and
wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care
providers. In the United States, UnitedHealthcare offers the full
spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, and
Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with
more than 1.3 million physicians and care professionals, and 6,000
hospitals and other care facilities nationwide. The company also
provides health benefits and delivers care to people through owned
and operated health care facilities in South America.
UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group
(NYSE: UNH), a diversified health care company. For more
information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or follow @UHC
on Twitter.
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