Child Health Initiative for Lifelong Eating and Exercise (CHILE) Plus

Multi-component Head Start nutrition and physical activity program with 64 lessons, family engagement, food service, grocery and health care partnerships for Latino and American Indian preschoolers.

The Child Health Initiative for Lifelong Eating and Exercise (CHILE) Plus is a multi-component nutrition and physical activity education program for preschool age children and their families. CHILE Plus is the dissemination project of CHILE, a randomized control trial conducted by the University of New Mexico Prevention Research Center (UNM PRC). CHILE Plus is based on the socioecological model and includes 6 components that fit into this model: the classroom curriculum, staff professional development, food service, family engagement, grocery store collaboration, and partnership with local health care providers and Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program providers.

Evidence: Research-based; derived from CHILE group randomized controlled trial; 2015 evaluation and 2022 implementation data

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