Communities for Healthy Living (CHL)

Communities for Healthy Living (CHL) is an obesity prevention program for Head Start preschools that integrates a parenting program co-led by Head Start staff and parents, enhanced nutrition support, and a media campaign. CHL content and implementation are informed by the Family Ecological Model, Psychological Empowerment Theory, and Organizational Empowerment Theory. The intervention is directed by community-based participatory research and implementation science principles and implemented in a real world context. Key outcomes include childrenâ s Body Mass Index z-score, child health behaviors, parenting practices and parent empowerment. A three-year pragmatic cluster randomized trial with a stepped wedge design and routine health data collected by Head Start coupled with parent surveys completed by subsamples of families will be used to evaluate the program.

 

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