Helping Hands Center For Obesity, Inc.

A nonprofit organization

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Helping Hands Center for Obesity, Inc. specializes in childhood obesity and encompasses the total family. Our mission is to treat the epidemic of childhood obesity in a medically supervised environment that accommodates the special needs of children, adolescents and adults. HHC4O works with a team of professionals to assist with issues, including but are not limited to, nutrition, emotional, physical and mental well being. As a company we are most proud of our ability to cultivate and nourish the community with supportive education, food assistance and awareness. What sets HHC4O apart from others is our ability to focus on children not adults, especially since the adults are the decision makers. We provide a full three point thrust curriculum that targets nutrition (including diseases and disorders), emotional health and physical movement. HHC4O provide solutions with a twist to living a healthier lifestyle.

Our Needs

Currently, Helping Hands Center for Obesity, Inc. is in need of funding, sponsorship, equipment, and volunteers.

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Mission

The primary objective of Helping Hands Center for Obesity, Inc. is to treat the epidemic of childhood obesity in a medically supervised environment that accommodates the special needs of children, adolescents, and adults. Paradigm of change one step at a time (1) Process (2) Change (3) Convert.

Needs

Our programs are designed to address acute issues with obesity in children by educating them on healthy

alternatives to their current diets and thus empowering them to make sound decisions and choices that will

yield healthy outcomes for longevity and a higher quality of life as they enter adulthood. Childhood is an

important time whereby the trajectory for good health throughout life is established. (Rankings n.d.)

Childhood obesity is associated with physical, social and psychological health issues in both

adolescence and adulthood including:

• The clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors that increased the risk of developing cardiovascular disease

and type 2 diabetes

• Bone and joint problems, asthma and sleep apnea

• Poor self-esteem, social isolation and depression

Besides the extra weight itself, weight stigma, also known as weight-based discrimination of weight bias,

negatively influences psychological and physical health. Weight stigma is defined as social discrimination

and stereotyping based on an individual’s weight. The associated health issues include:

• Substance misuse in adulthood

• Increase in cortisol level (This is the stress hormone which causes belly fat.)

• Increased risk of disordered eating behaviors

• Increased risk if chronic diseases

• Bias in medical care

Childhood obesity is responsible for an estimated $14 billion in lifetime direct medical costs or

$19,000 per child with obesity or overweight. (Rankings n.d.)

Long-term, we’re empowering children and their families to change their family dynamics and ultimatel

their family legacies from contracting “traditional” chronic health conditions that they have grown to accept

as an inevitable part of life and aging to a legacy of strength, and knowledge that can yield health and

wealth for years to come.

To do this, short-term, we will provide hands-on guided fitness training with the equipment available at the

service location as well as exercise plans that the participants can do at home without equipment. We will

design specific nutrition meal plans for the participants as well as provide the some of the food

recommended in the meal plans and require them to log their food intake to ensure accountability and track

results. In addition, we engage the participants’ adult guardians in an effort to reinforce the changes they

are learning during the sessions with the facilitators in hopes that the adults around the participants will also

adopt the same healthy food choices that their child will learn and adopt. This is a community effort to fight

such a deadly and 100% preventable disease.

Long-term, our plan is to build a facility that accommodates anyone who wants to participate in the

programs and not be burdened with the “cost” of a gym membership, a nutritionist and a fitness coach while

their parents are struggling to make rent and keep the utilities on at home. While we may not be able to

alleviate the food deserts in the area or the lack of suitable gyms for young people, we are diligently working

to provide resources where we can in order to fill in the gap and help people make the best choices out of

what is available to them in the areas where they live. One of those resources we plan to provide are

community gardens that will be planted and cultivated by the program participants as well as the local

residents in identified food deserts of South Dallas. These gardens will provide the fresh fruits and

vegetables that are often missing or not available in the local corner stores that the youth go to for food.

While the community gardens project is still in the planning stages, we expect it to become a major part of

the continued success in each participants’ new habits and lifestyle.

Equity Statement

Our assets consist of our bank account in the amount of $7352.68. Other assets include:

Hewlett Packard Pavilion Laptop

Epson 7600 Deskjet Printer

Exercise Supplies

Health O Meter Digital Doctor’s Scale

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

Helping Hands Center For Obesity, Inc.

other names

HHC4O

Tax id (EIN)

65-1200287

Guidestar

Causes

Community Improvement, Hunger, Food Access & Nutrition, Youth & Children

Operating Budget

$100,000 - $249,999

Counties Served

Dallas, Tarrant

BIPOC Serving

Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx

BIPOC Leadership

Executive Director/CEO

Equity Statement

Equity Statement

Address

PO Box 397842
Dallas, TX 75216

Phone

214-549-8750

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