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Families Succeed Together

Many parents of Wellspring campers report that they lose weight right along with their camper – both while their child is at camp, but especially in the months following camp.  In fact, family surveys following camp indicate that 40% of parents lose more than 20 lbs.  Add that weight loss to their child’s weight loss, and you have entire families losing weight and getting healthy together. To read some of these families’ stories, click here.

Family Workshops

At the conclusion of 4 and 8 weeks,  Wellspring Texas hosts a Family Workshop Weekend. Since becoming a long-term weight controller is a complete lifestyle change, it is helpful if families are as supportive as possible to create an encouraging home environment for campers. Under the leadership of Wellspring clinical professionals, families are invited to become quick experts on what has occurred at camp, and what they should be doing at home to ensure continued weight loss.

Wellspring is so certain of the importance of a supportive home environment that an additional incentive is provided: the full cost of the workshop is refunded to families who attend.

Some highlights of Family Workshop Weekend are:

• Families receive the tools that campers have been using at camp (textbooks, self-monitoring journals, pedometers, calorie counters)
• Parents commit to following the Wellspring program for the length of the workshop to help them understand the main components of the lifestyle change and what their child has experienced at camp
• Parent CBT sessions with Behavioral Coaches
• Culinary and nutrition overviews and demonstrations
• Planning for the transition home: how to support the returning camper over the fall and winter to maximize the probability of continued weight loss