Resources
Resources
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Prevention Research Centers (PRCs) work with local communities and partners to develop, test, and evaluate solutions to public health problems. The solutions developed by PRCs are intended to be applied widely to improve population health outcomes.
Some of the resources provided through the Mountain West Prevention Research Center are listed below.
Outcomes in Dissemination & Implementation Research -Workshop
Join a free virtual workshop on Outcomes in Dissemination & Implementation (D&I) Research with MW-PRC Director Paul Estabrooks, and Tobi Sanuade, PhD (Research Assistant Professor, Population Health Sciences) hosted by the University of Utah's Dissemination & Implementation Science Core (DISC), on Friday, April 11, 2025, from 9:00-12:00 on Zoom. Registration required.
Partner Grants: Deliver a Family Healthy Weight Program in your Community
For communities interested in adopting and delivering a Family Healthy Weight Program (FHWP) to families they serve, the MW-PRC provides grants to fund two types of projects, either a Program Implementation project grant or a Partnership Development project grant. If you are interested in learning more about these grant opportunities, please contact us.
Program Implementation
Program Implementation projects are ideal for communities that are ready to implement a Family Health Weight Program (FHWP), such as Building Health Families (BHF), in their community. Communities interested in this grant have already identified a community-based organization that could deliver a FHWP and a health organization or school that could assist in identifying eligible families through an electronic health record (EHR) or other platform that tracks height and weight. These projects would deliver a FHWP, with support from the research team.
Partnership Development
Partnership Development projects are ideal for communities who do not currently have collaborative partners that could lead program delivery or recruitment. Specifically:
- Community-Based Organizations that could deliver a FWHP, such as BHF, but don’t yet have a health care or school partner to develop a sustainable referral pipeline.
- Healthcare settings or school districts that could develop a sustainable referral pipeline to a local FWHP, meaning you have access to height and weight data and could identify eligible kids, but don’t yet have a community partner who could deliver the Family Healthy Weight Program.
- Organizations that have the capacity to both deliver the program and recruit families are also eligible for this project type to work on community partnerships that would help support and sustain a FHWP such as BHF.
The grant funding would support your organization in developing community partnerships to prepare an application for Program Implementation to deliver a FWHP in your community.
Focused on the Mountain West
The Mountain West Prevention Research Center (MW-PRC) is the first PRC with partnerships in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. There are limited health promotion, disease prevention services, health services, and health professionals throughout the Mountain West. The MW-PRC helps meet the unique needs of the Mountain West by bringing local community leaders together for region-wide collaborations.
Pathway to Practice
CDC developed the Pathway to Practice (P2P) Resource Center to centralize evidence-based strategies and interventions together with supporting materials, trainings, and tools developed in real-world practice settings. By making these resources easily accessible in one place, the P2P Resource Center helps researchers and practitioners learn about and implement best practices for their community public health programs. The P2P Resource Center provides free tools to identify and use evidence-based methods, and has resources for the general public and community members, public health practitioners, researchers or evaluators, and decision-makers.
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The Mountain West Prevention Research Center is supported by the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Center (1U48DP006789), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U. S. Government.
