UnitedHealthcare and Sesame Workshop Celebrate Grandparents Day with New Resources to Help Families Grow in Healthy Ways
September 07 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
New and downloadable grandparents guide will
help nurture children’s social and emotional development
UnitedHealthcare and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational
organization behind Sesame Street, are celebrating National
Grandparents Day on Sept. 12 with a new "Grandparents Are Grand!"
guidebook. The free resource is available to download at
www.grandparentsday.com, providing grandparents fun new ways to
connect with grandchildren and build social and emotional
skills.
The “Grandparents Are Grand!” guidebook is the latest resource
in Sesame Workshop’s Growing Every Day, Every Way program made
possible by UnitedHealthcare. Since 2010, Growing Every Day, Every
Way has provided educational resources for families on
developmental milestones, including the importance of making
nutritious food choices and incorporating physical activities into
daily routines.
"Grandparents Day gives us an opportunity to celebrate
grandparents and their role in raising kids, sometimes as primary
caregivers, by acknowledging their contributions and supporting
them," said Tim Spilker, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Community &
State. "COVID-19 has created unique challenges for families to
connect, interact and build healthy relationships together.
UnitedHealthcare is grateful for the opportunity to partner with
Sesame Workshop — a leader in early childhood education — to meet
that challenge with resources to help children establish lifelong
healthy habits."
According to the 2019 U.S. Census American Community Survey,
there are more than 70 million grandparents in the United States,
including 2.4 million "grandparent caregivers" with primary
responsibility for grandchildren under 18 who live with them.
Grandparent caregivers are often longer-term primary caregivers,
with 15% responsible for their grandkids for longer than five
years. Additionally, more than 7 million grandparents are living
with a grandchild under the age of 18.
“Sesame Workshop is dedicated to helping improve the health of
the whole family across generations,” said Dr. Jeanette Betancourt,
senior vice president of U.S. Social Impact at Sesame Workshop.
“We’re thrilled to team up with UnitedHealthcare once again in
honoring the important role that grandparents play in young
children’s lives this Grandparents Day.”
To learn more about new Grandparents Day resources and Grow
Every Day, Every Way, visit https://www.GrandparentsDay.com.
About Sesame Workshop Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit
media and 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 active 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 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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