The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), located in Canada's capital city of Ottawa, has a department that is dedicated to caring for pediatric weight related concerns. CHEO's Centre for Healthy Active Living (CHAL) works with children and their families with complex severe obesity through one coordinated and patient-specific plan of care which includes specialists such as pediatric endocrinologists, psychologists, case management nurse, registered dietitian, activity specialist, social worker and child and youth counselor.

Our mission is to improve the health and quality of life of children with weight related health complications and support them and their families in achieving a healthy active lifestyle.

Recognizing that healthy bodies come in a wide range of body shapes and sizes, CHAL works with families to help them improve health through changes in health behaviours. Making changes to health behaviours — how and what you eat, how you move and how you cope — can lead to significant improvements in health and well-being, with little or no changes in body weight.

Contact Information

Should there be questions about the program, please email the us at:

chal-info@cheo.on.ca or call us at 613-260-1477.