Reaching Staff, Parents, and Community Partners to Prevent Childhood Obesity in Head Start, 2008

Reaching Staff, Parents, and Community Partners to Prevent Childhood Obesity in Head Start, 2008

Published: May 30, 2010
Publisher: Preventing Chronic Disease, vol. 7, no. 3

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Authors

Rachel A. Gooze

Cayce C. Hughes

Daniel M. Finkelstein

Robert C. Whitaker

This report details how Head Start—the largest federally funded early childhood education program in the U.S. that reaches one million children—uses a multilevel approach to prevent childhood obesity that involves staff, parents, and community partners.

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