Healthy Caregivers-Healthy Children

Healthy Caregivers-Healthy Children Phase 3: Children With Special Needs

The purpose of the study is to further develop and examine the Health Caregivers Healthy Children (HC2) program, which encourages obesity prevention through promoting healthy eating and physical activity.

Center Inclusion Criteria:

1. have >30 children ages 2-to-5 with a with or at-risk for a disability or special healthcare need
2. Serve low income families
3. Reflect the ethnic diversity of the Miami Dade county Public School System (60% Hispanic, 20% non-Hispanic Black, 20% Non Hispanic White).

Child inclusion criteria:

1. Children with an Individual Education Plan or at-risk based on social and economic variables
2. child ages 2-5
3. child enrolled in a childcare center

Exclusion Criteria:

1) Children with feeding tubes or those that bring their own meals due to dietary restrictions