Project Grant R01DK142843

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), provides $786,797 to the University of Utah for the project "Scaling Up Building Healthy Families in Rural Areas and Small Towns". The project aims to increase access to evidence-based childhood obesity interventions in rural areas by scaling up the "Building Healthy Families" (BHF) program, which has demonstrated clinically significant reductions in child BMI. The funding will support a cluster randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of the BHF program resources alone versus the program resources combined with a learning collaborative approach across 30 rural and micropolitan communities in a six-state region. The study will also assess the implementation, reach, effectiveness, and maintenance of the BHF program under these two conditions.