SHINE Introduction & Directions

Children's SHINE Clinic offers interdisciplinary care for children, adolescents and their families through our outpatient Weight Management Clinic. Our team includes pediatricians, nurses, nurse practitioners, dietitians, and exercise physiologists. The goal of our clinic is to assist families in making permanent changes that result improved health and well-being. Families get the most benefit out of their visit to the weight management clinic when they come ready to change their behavior and start new healthy habits. However, we also realize that each family has different needs and may be in a different stage of readiness to change. Thus, our clinicians work toward offering a family-centered approach where we gather information from each family which helps us understand individual needs and prior difficulties with weight loss. With the family's permission, we also assist in identifying resources and a support system outside of the clinic that will help them achieve their goals and increase or sustain their motivation. 

Treatment for Obesity in Children & Teens - HealthyChildren.org

To get an Appointment in the SHINE Clinic we must receive a referral from a Primary care physician and families must complete Parent Paperwork.

Clinic Information: 205-638-5750

Directions to our Clinic:
The SHINE Clinic is a specialty clinic at Children's South. Children's South is located at 1940 Elmer J. Bissell Road, Birmingham, AL 35243.

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