title: Partnering for success and sustainability in community-based child obesity intervention: seeking to help families ACT!
abstract: Sustaining community-based obesity interventions for families represents an ongoing challenge. Many initially grant-funded initiatives lack a sustainable model to continue. After initial grant funding ended, we continued a partnership between Seattle Children's Hospital and YMCA of Greater Seattle to enhance and expand a community-based family obesity program, "ACT! Actively Changing Together." We used principles of continuous process improvement, community-based participatory research, and the RE-AIM framework to successfully transition from a grant-funded to a community-supported program. Our pilot evaluation demonstrated promising results in parent behaviors, youth quality of life, ongoing family participation at the Y, and youth body mass index.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
authors.forename: H Mollie Greves
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Grow
authors.forename: Patty
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hencz
authors.forename: Mary Jones
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Verbovski
authors.forename: Lindsey
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gregerson
authors.forename: Lenna L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Linna
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dossett
authors.forename: Cindy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Larison
authors.forename: Brian E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Saelens
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000191:economics*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*