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Active Middle School Communities Project

“Co-Creating and Implementing Contextually Responsive Physical Activity Interventions with Low-Income Adolescents,” also known as the “Active Middle School Communities Project,” is a comprehensive and community-engaged mixed methods study to design and test strategies for improving community-wide and individual-level physical activity outcomes in middle school neighborhoods.
Topic(s): Austin Physical Activity Community Development
Content Type: Project
Texas SNAP-Ed Evaluation

Texas SNAP-Ed Evaluation, is a two-year project to evaluate, on a statewide basis, the effectiveness of SNAP-Ed nutrition education and obesity prevention programming activities delivered by Implementing Agencies throughout the state of Texas.
Topic(s): Nutrition Food Access Obesity
Content Type: Project
CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health)

CATCH is a research-based program designed to guide schools, families and children in healthy eating and physical activity.
Topic(s): Nutrition Tobacco and Alcohol Abuse Physical Activity School-based Health Programs Food Access Research Tools Obesity
Content Type: Project
Texas School Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey (TX SPAN)

The Texas SPAN survey was established to track the prevalence of overweight and obese school-aged children in Texas.
Topic(s): Measurement Nutrition Physical Activity School-based Health Programs Food Access Obesity
Content Type: Project
Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite Partnership

The Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite Technical Assistance Partnership was established to provide technical assistance and support to worksites across the state of Texas who are seeking Mother-Friendly designation, a designation which demonstrates a basic level of support for nursing mothers in the workplace
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Health Policy
Content Type: Project
Teaching Kitchen Multisite Trial

The Teaching Kitchen Multisite Trial is a pilot study to evaluate a teaching kitchen-based lifestyle intervention as part of a randomized controlled Multisite Trial with adults with clinically defined obesity and one additional metabolic syndrome component.
Topic(s): Nutrition Food Access Obesity
Content Type: Project
STREETS (Safe TRavel Environment Evaluation in Texas Schools)

The STREETS Study (Safe TRavel Environment Evaluation in Texas Schools) is a five-year (2018 – 2023) natural experiment that is evaluating the City of Austin Safe Routes to School program.
Topic(s): Physical Activity Community Development Safe TRavel Environments Evaluation in Texas Schoo
Content Type: Project
South American Youth/Child Cardiovascular and Environmental (SAYCARE) Study

The SAYCARE study is an observational, multicenter, feasibility study, which was carried out in seven South American cities.
Topic(s): Community Development
Content Type: Project
Nourishing the Community Through Culinary Medicine

Nourishing the Community Through Culinary Medicine is a study to pilot test a virtual culinary medicine program with adults with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes. The purpose of this study is to see how well synchronous but virtual hands-on healthy cooking classes work to help patients with diabetes improve cooking skills, change eating habits and control diabetes. All materials for this project, including our toolkit and recorded classes are available on the Nourish website.
Topic(s): Nutrition Food Access Obesity
Content Type: Project
Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program

The key objective of developing the MCH training program is to address geographic disparities in access to MCH training for rural MCH professionals in the target areas of the HRSA Region VI (TX, NM, OK, AR, and LA) and the Upper Peninsula region of Michigan.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health
Content Type: Project
Fresh for Less Healthy Food Access Evaluation

Funded by Austin Public Health (APH), this project assesses Austin's multifaceted healthy food access initiative to enhance prioritization and refinement of efforts by APH.
Topic(s): Nutrition Community Development Food Access Obesity
Content Type: Project
CO-CREATE

The CO-CREATE study aims to prevent overweight and obesity in adolescents by providing knowledge and infrastructure on policies to support making the healthiest choices the preferred ones.
Topic(s): Nutrition Community Development School-based Health Programs Food Access Health Policy Obesity
Content Type: Project
Brighter Bites

This project is a collaborative effort to impact eating behavior among predominantly low-income families by introducing them to a routine distribution of fresh produce and corresponding education, ultimately to curb the childhood obesity epidemic.
Topic(s): Nutrition Community Development School-based Health Programs Food Access Obesity
Content Type: Project
FRESH AUSTIN

Food Retail: Evaluating Strategies for a Healthy Austin (FRESH-AUSTIN) aims to further evaluation of the City of Austin's Healthy Food Access Initiative, and increase understanding of the complexities within a community food system.
Topic(s): Nutrition
Content Type: Project
HEAL (Healthy Eating Active Living)

This project is a clinic-community based intervention to implement an early life-cycle approach to obesity prevention among pregnant women and women with infants from low-income families.
Topic(s): Obesity
Content Type: Project
Digital Physical Activity and Diet (dPAD) Collaborative

The Digital Physical Activity and Diet (dPAD) Collaborative’s goal is to bring together researchers who are interested in addressing obesity, diet, and physical activity through technology-based research.
Topic(s): Nutrition Physical Activity School-based Health Programs Obesity
Content Type: Project
Central Texas Healthy Adolescent Project

The Central Texas Healthy Adolescent Project (CTHAP) is a community organization-led, school-based initiative aimed at promoting optimal health and reducing teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STI) among middle and high school students in Austin and Travis County, Texas.
Topic(s): School-based Health Programs Research Tools
Content Type: Project
HEART ATX Evaluation

The HEART ATX project is a three-year initiative funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CCR-Grant Component B) aimed at reducing the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities experiencing economic disadvantage, communities of color, and higher risk populations in the Austin/Travis County area of Texas.
Topic(s): Measurement Research Tools
Content Type: Project
A Landscape Assessment of Needs, Assets and Opportunities for Physical Activity Promotion in Travis County

This one-year, community-based landscape assessment aims to identify needs, assets and opportunity for physical activity promotion in Travis County in partnership with M.D. Anderson’s Cancer Prevention and Control Platform.
Topic(s): Measurement Physical Activity
Content Type: Project
Mapping Opportunities to Reduce Fatal & Serious Injuries on Roadways in Austin, Texas: Engaging Young People in Action Planning to Advance Vision Zero

This one-year community-engaged assessment study aims to inform intervention planning to reduce fatal and serious injuries on roadways among higher risk communities within the Austin area.
Topic(s): Measurement Health Policy
Content Type: Project
Texas Childhood Obesity Prevention Policy Evaluation (T-COPPE)

This project is a collaborative effort that will study the impact of two recent policies: the Safe Routes to School program and an important rule revision to the federal food allocation package administered by the Texas Women, Infants and Children program.
Topic(s): Physical Activity Health Policy Obesity
Content Type: Project
Green Schoolyards Project

The Green Schoolyards Project determines how trees, gardens, and nature trails at elementary school parks in Austin, Texas, affect surrounding temperatures and child health.
Topic(s): School-based Health Programs
Content Type: Project
CATCH Healthy Smiles

CATCH Healthy Smiles teaches students why toothbrushing, flossing, dentist visits, and healthy food and drink choice are important to oral health. Students will learn and practice the skills necessary to maintain healthy smiles.
Topic(s): Nutrition School-based Health Programs
Content Type: Project
CATCH My Breath

CATCH My Breath (CMB) is a middle school e-cigarette prevention program originally designed as a rapid response to the emerging teen vaping trends.
Topic(s): Tobacco and Alcohol Abuse E-cigarettes
Content Type: Project
Texas Coronavirus Antibody Response Survey (TX CARES)

The Texas Coronavirus Antibody Response Survey (TX CARES) project was designed in response to the pandemic to estimate the prevalence of SARS-CoV (coronavirus) antibody status across Texas.
Topic(s): Health Policy
Content Type: Project
ENRICH (Encouraging Nurturing Responsiveness to Improve Child Health)

ENRICH stands for Encouraging Nurturing Responsiveness to Improve Child Health. This research project works to help parents establish healthy eating, activity, bedtime, and screen time routines.
Topic(s): Nutrition
Content Type: Project
Texas Adolescent Tobacco and Marketing Surveillance Study

The goal is to understand what types of electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) devices, like e-cigarettes, and other tobacco products, like cigarettes, cigars, and hookah, youth and young adults are using and why they use those products. Additionally, we study the effect of tobacco product marketing and other factors (e.g., product characteristics, intrapersonal and interpersonal influences) on youth tobacco use.
Topic(s): Tobacco and Alcohol Abuse
Content Type: Project
Age of Initiation of Tobacco Products Among USA Youth and Young Adults

This study involves a prospective secondary analysis of the first three waves of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study among U.S. youth (aged 12-17 years) and young adults (aged 18-24 years) who reported never use at Wave 1.
Topic(s): Tobacco and Alcohol Abuse
Content Type: Project
Travis County CATCH Elementary School Project (Travis County CATCH)

The Travis County CATCH Elementary School Project (Travis County CATCH) was a school-based health promotion initiative aimed at promoting physical activity, healthy eating and obesity prevention among middle school students living in central Texas.
Topic(s): Nutrition Physical Activity School-based Health Programs Obesity
Content Type: Project
Lunch is in the Bag

The purpose of this intervention is to encourage parents to increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in sack lunches for their preschool children in childcare centers. The goal for this research is the development of new strategies for the promotion of healthy eating practices in children through childcare centers.
Topic(s): Nutrition
Content Type: Project
Texas Child Obesity Research Demonstration (CORD)

This project will connect the dots between families, pediatricians, schools and local youth organizations to develop community capacity for early detection and effective management of obesity using evidence-based programs like CATCH and MEND.
Topic(s): Obesity
Content Type: Project
Texas GROW! EAT! GO!

This project will test the impact of several different programs on behaviors related to childhood obesity including, a hands-on family-focused gardening program and a fun school-based walking program for kids.
Topic(s): Nutrition Physical Activity School-based Health Programs Obesity
Content Type: Project
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