Children’s Health
Currently Funded Projects
- Advancing Research in Immunization Services Network (ARISe)
- Carolina Hunger Initiative (CHI)
- Enhancing Equity in Child Health and Development through Go NAPSACC
- Go NAPSACC Contracts and Service Agreements
- Integrating mindfulness into school counseling to enhance resilience for adolescents in the context of stress
- My weight-their weight: eHealth intervention for managing obesity in child care settings
- No Kid Hungry NC
- Novel wearable sensor calibration and validation for automated measurement of screen time in children
- Strengthening Social-Emotional Learning in High Schools with Integrated Multi-Tiered Mindfulness Programming
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education (SNAP-Ed)
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education (SNAP-Ed) Toolkit
- Understanding disparities in access to the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) by center-based Early Care and Education programs and developing strategies for equitable dissemination and uptake
- Unheard Voices
Completed Projects
- Adding plays to the “playbook:” Translating school meals programs during COVID-19 to best practices for future school closures
- Ad-Vance Kids: A Community-Engaged Approach to Inform a Rural, Multi-Level Community-Based Child Obesity Prevention Intervention
- Better Together
- Breastfeeding, Antiretrovirals and Nutrition Study (BAN)
- Development of a Self-Report Instrument to Assess Nutrition and Physical Activity Environments of Child Care Settings
- Expanding SummerMeals4NCKids
- Farm Fresh Foods for Healthy Kids: Innovative Community Supported Agriculture Cost-Offset Intervention to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Strengthen Local Agricultural Economies
- Farm-to-ECE Best Practices: Creating Tools to Facilitate Change through Go NAPSACC
- Go NAPSACC Kentucky Dissemination and Implementation
- Healthy Child Weight Through Improved Parent Practices and Environmental Change
- Home Self-Administered Tool for Environmental Assessment of Activity and Diet (HomeSTEAD)
- Keys to Healthy Family Childcare Homes
- The North Carolina Cleft Outcomes Study
- Nutrition and physical activity practices and policies of childcare centers in the south
- The Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAP SACC)
- Shape NC
- SPROUTS: Development of Eating Behaviors in Young Children
- Our Year of Healthy Living (Healthy Me, Healthy We)
- Understanding Reach and Implementation of School Nutrition Safety Net Programs for NC Families During COVID-19: Implications for Policy and Practice