NAMIO is a 100% virtual program that is delivered when and where families need it. Families access the NAMIO curriculum, coaching services, workshops, cooking demos, and workouts through the NAMIO app. Families can enroll in NAMIO and begin the program at any time! The first group session on getting started is offered every month for newly-enrolled families to kick off their NAMIO experience and engage with other newly-enrolled families.

The NAMIO family healthy weight program includes 26 hours of contact over 3-12 months. The complete NAMIO curriculum includes weekly on-demand health education sessions, monthly group coaching, elective live and on-demand workouts, mindfulness workshops, and cooking classes, and the option for individual coaching sessions. The NAMIO slogan of “5 to thrive” refers to NAMIO’s focus on nutrition, physical activity, sleep, screen use, and social-emotional wellness in promoting optimal health.

The NAMIO program was developed by Dr. Natalie Muth, a pediatrician, board-certified obesity medicine specialist, and registered dietitian and Cassandra Padgett, who has a masters degree in health education and is an ACE-certified health coach and personal trainer and diabetes prevention program-certified lifestyle coach and has extensive experience serving as a health coach in a healthy living clinic for children, adolescents, and their families. Cassandra Padgett is the primary lifestyle coach for the NAMIO program and leads all of the group sessions and provides optional individual coaching.

The NAMIO family healthy weight program is designed for families with children and adolescents ages 6-18.

Absolutely! NAMIO has a special track for families with adolescents taking anti-obesity medications that provides additional coaching and health education tailored to the experience of families with a teen taking a GLP-1 or other medication that causes weight loss. Co-founder Dr. Natalie Muth is a board-certified obesity medicine specialist and registered dietitian. She leads several NAMIO workshops tailored to nutrition and physical activity for adolescents on anti-obesity medications.

The FDA insert on approved anti-obesity medications suggest that behavioral intervention is essential for adolescents taking anti-obesity medications. Additionally, the American Academy of Pediatrics advises that anti-obesity medications should never be used alone – they must be accompanied by a behavioral intervention. Despite exponential growth in prescribing anti-obesity medications for adolescents, few behavioral programs are accessible for many families. NAMIO helps to solve this problem, providing ready access to a best-practice intervention.

NAMIO offers 3 subscription levels. Further details are available on the NAMIO membership webpage.

NAMIO participates in various collaborations and partnerships to help to make the NAMIO program available to as many families as possible. We believe that every family affected by obesity should have access to a best-practice lifestyle program and want to do everything we can to make that possible. Please contact us here if you’d like further information about our existing initiatives.

Families can sign up to begin their NAMIO experience on the membership page of the Namio Health website.

NAMIO is based on the best scientific evidence of what comprises a safe and effective family healthy weight clinic. The CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommend that children ages 6 and older with overweight or obesity be offered or referred to a family-based program that includes at least 26 hours over 3-12 months with focus on nutrition, activity, and other behavior changes. NAMIO does just that. Additionally, all NAMIO content is based on the best evidence of what works to help support families in optimizing their health.

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends digital health interventions to assist adolescents with overweight or obesity with weight management. Evidence shows these interventions lead to meaningful weight reductions as well as improvements in depressive symptoms and no increased risk of disordered eating or body image harms in adolescents with overweight or obesity.

NAMIO works closely with families to monitor engagement, behavior changes, goal attainment, and family and clinician satisfaction. NAMIO is committed to continual learning and growth to help all families who engage with the NAMIO curriculum to improve their health and have a successful experience.

NAMIO is committed to partnering with pediatricians and referring clinicians to help link clinical and community healthy weight services. NAMIO provides families an enrollment certificate and progress report they can share with their clinician at the time of enrollment, with each milestone a family and child achieves, and program completion including the total number of hours of engagement and goals achieved.

Namio Health is deeply committed to ensuring privacy and confidentiality. Our technology complies with all applicable laws and regulations. We will never sell your information. All individual coaching sessions are conducted through HIPAA-compliant Healthie electronic health record. We otherwise do not collect or handle medical information, though we will provide your family with updates that you can choose to share with your child's clinician. Our app is designed to be downloaded and used by adult caregivers who may share the information or resources with their family members but the app is not designed to be used by children or minor adolescents.

Yes -- soon! The NAMIO curriculum will soon be available in Spanish!