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The mission of the Live Light…. Live Right Program is
to empower children and their families with the knowledge and support
to help them make healthy choices in food and fitness to last a lifetime.

The Live Light ….Live Right program is a Brookdale hospital and community based partnership developed to deliver a program to children with special health care needs. The target population is overweight and obese children and adolescents, ages 2 to 18, who have one or more metabolic abnormalities associated with obesity such as (hypertension, hyperinsulinemia or diabetes and dyslipidemia.) These conditions are risk factors for chronic diseases, including coronary artery disease and type II diabetes. The program coordinates and integrates the multi-disciplinary services required to achieve optimal clinical management, promote healthy eating behaviors and lifelong exercise, and to affect long-term behavior modifications that impact health outcomes in childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

This program is supported by funding from the New York state Department of Health and also the Robin Hood Foundation. Further funding for prevention and treatment of childhood obesity is being solicited by the Live Light Live Right Program.

For Funding Opportunities Or Becoming A Partner with Live Light Live Right

This is a non for profit organization (503 (c)). To sponsor a program please contact
Dr. Sarita Dhuper at 718-240-5857/ 718-240-8125
Email: SDhuper@Brookdale.edu

The goals of the program are to:

1. Increase access to coordinated, comprehensive, culturally sensitive, medical and psychosocial care.

2. Increase the skills and knowledge of community pediatricians in the identification and appropriate management of childhood obesity

3. Increase community awareness and understanding of obesity as a serious health issue.

4. Increase community-based care coordination and support.

The goals of the program are accomplished by:

1. Identifying and referring overweight/obese children who have one or more obesity-associated metabolic disorders (hypertension, hyperinsulinemia and type II diabetes, and dyslipidemia.) to the Pediatric Obesity clinic)

2. Providing care coordination to obese children through integration of health care with the school, community, and home-based services.

3. Providing education and support to community pediatricians in the identification and medical management of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents.

4. Providing community education on obesity and obesity-related disorders.

5. Providing nutrition education and counseling to children and parents.

6. Providing physical activity training and structured opportunities for exercise and physical activity in safe spaces throughout the community.

7. Providing parent/peer support groups.

This approach is consistent with the mission statement of our institution, which in part states that Brookdale Hospital is "committed to be the focus of a healthy community".

This project is partially funded by the New York State Department of Health through a grant 'Enhanced services for children & Youth'.