What to Say Healthcare: How Our CME Course Is Helping Thousands of Kids

Conversations about weight, body image, and food can have a lasting impact on a child’s well-being. It's crucial to navigate these sensitive topics in ways that build trust, protect mental health, and support positive outcomes.

WithAll is excited to partner with Continuing Education Company, Inc. (CEC) to offer What to Say Healthcare, an accredited online CME course designed to give providers the tools they need to approach these conversations with confidence and care.

Whether you’re a pediatrician, family physician, nurse practitioner, or healthcare professional working with children, this course offers research-backed strategies to foster healthy relationships with food and body image.

Practical Tools for Pediatric Providers: What to Say Healthcare

What to Say Healthcare: Discussing Weight and Food in Pediatric Healthcare is structured for today’s busy healthcare professionals. It’s a self-paced online course that offers clear, actionable guidance to fit into a provider’s ongoing education. Providers can meet continuing education requirements while gaining critical skills that weren’t often taught in traditional medical training — skills that can make a profound difference in a child’s life.

Key topics include:

• Navigating conversations about body image with children and families
• Recognizing signs of disordered eating and eating disorders
• Building supportive healthcare environments with healthy relationships to food and body image
• Understanding the roots and consequences of weight stigma

Each module is designed to be practical, engaging, and immediately applicable to daily practice. It goes beyond physical metrics to help providers support children’s whole health.

The Impact: How Healthcare Providers Are Reaching 1,500–2,000 Kids Each

The conversations healthcare providers have with their patients matter — sometimes more than they realize. We’ve reached over 150 doctors to date, and every provider who completes the What to Say Healthcare online CME course has the potential to impact the lives of 1,500 to 2,000 children through healthier, more affirming interactions.

When providers approach conversations about weight and food thoughtfully, they can help prevent the development of disordered eating, eating disorders, and lifelong struggles with body image. Small shifts in language and approach can create ripple effects that support a generation of children in feeling strong, capable, and confident in their bodies.

This course isn’t just a professional development opportunity — it’s a step toward building a healthcare system that protects and promotes mental and physical well-being for all kids.

“I remember too vividly the sting of well-intended healthcare providers pointing to a growth chart—like a grading scale—and telling me to ‘watch my weight.’ It felt like getting a D in the class of ‘girl’s body,’ and that shame only fueled the disordered eating that followed.”
— Lisa, Executive Director, WithAll

Earn CME Credits and Build a Healthier Future

Thanks to WithAll’s partnership with Continuing Education Company, Inc. (CEC) — a leading provider of accredited continuing medical education for over 30 years — healthcare professionals can now earn up to 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ while learning how to better support the kids and families they serve. This course is also accredited by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) for 2.0 Prescribed CME credits.

The course is fully online and self-paced, making it easy to complete on your schedule. It’s a powerful way to build more supportive, stigma-free environments for pediatric patients — and to help shift the culture of care, one conversation at a time.

By enrolling in What to Say Healthcare, providers will:

• Earn 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and 2.0 AAFP Prescribed Credits
• Access a fully online, self-paced course designed for real-world practice
• Gain strategies to reduce weight stigma and promote positive outcomes for pediatric patients
• Contribute to a healthier, more supportive future for thousands of children

“You help turn painful past experiences into something healing and life-affirming for the next generation.”
— Lisa, Executive Director, WithAll

Spread the Word About What to Say Healthcare CME Course

We encourage you to share WithAll’s What to Say Healthcare CME Course with your healthcare network, your child’s pediatrician, or any provider who works with children.

Together, we can create a healthcare environment that builds strong foundations for a healthy relationship with food and body image.