What We Do–Divi
Featured Project
Foods and Moves Suite of Mobile Apps for Preschoolers
In collaboration with our research partners, we created four mobile apps to help young children make the most out of eating and moving. To download and use these free apps, visit: foodsandmoves.org
Current Projects
eHEROs
The eHEROs program aims to adapt the work of our successful 6-week HEROs program into a digital format to help families learn about eating, movement, and mindful parenting.
StayWell ECE
The goal of the StayWell ECE project is to evaluate teachers’ health and wellbeing, identify potential intervention targets, and develop an intervention plan through a participatory process with ECE teachers/staff and community stakeholders.
MOMs Study
The Maternal Obesity Matters (MOMs) Study focuses on maternal self-care and aims to understand and influence parental caregivers’ health and self care behaviors, particularly as they relate to child behaviors.
Collaborative Projects
ECE Program Sustainability
Using implementation science frameworks, this project aims to identify predictors of sustainability of nutrition and physical activity programs in childcare and develop sustainability strategies to support prevention programs in this setting.
Partners: Taren Swindle (PI), University of Arkansas Medical Sciences; Susan Johnson, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Diet Quality and Food Security
This project is examining how access to healthy, safe, and affordable foods that promote health and well-being in high cost-of-living areas are being utilized across low-income groups.
Partners: Megan Mueller (PI), Colorado State University
Precision Nutrition
This project will examine the impact of diets high in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains on gut microbes, their genes and metabolic health.
Partners: Angela Poole (PI), Cornell DNS
Past Projects
Food Friends & Mighty Moves
Over its 19 year history, these programs have demonstrated short- and long-term changes in nutrition and physical activity behaviors in preschool-aged children. They were implemented in over 1200 classrooms, reaching over 60,000 children and families.
LEAP
The Colorado LEAP study explored the longitudinal impact of The Food Friends intervention on the eating habits, physical activity patterns and weight status of young children.
HEROs
The HEROs program created a 6-week family intervention to promote young children’s healthy eating and activity behaviors in the home environment.