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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.
Request for Funding Opportunity
The Mountain West Prevention Research Center (MW-PRC) has teamed up with researchers from the University of Utah and University of Nebraska at Kearney on the Building Healthy Families (BHF) Scale Up project. The BHF Scale Up project aims to provide an evidence-based program to communities that identify childhood obesity as a priority.
Communities selected to participate will receive free access the BHF Online Resources Package—including training, implementation materials, and technical support. This study will test whether adding a facilitated learning collaborative strategy to this packaged training improves successful delivery and long-term sustainment of BHF. Approximately half the communities will be assigned to the learning collaborative condition. Communities who are interested in adopting and delivering a family healthy weight program to families they serve are encouraged to apply.
The project offers a funding opportunity covering the BHF Online Resources Package, necessary program supplies, and $5,000 per community from the MW-PRC for start-up costs. Communities that partner with a local clinical partner to use electronic health records to identify eligible families and invite to them via text to enroll in BHF may be eligible for additional MW-PRC funding, access to our text messaging technology platform, and centralized management of the text-based recruitment strategy being tested in the MW-PRC Core Research Project.
How to apply: Interested communities will need to submit a 1000-word (approximately two-page) Request for Funding narrative that responds to questions related to community priorities and program delivery factors and completion of two organizational readiness surveys. The next round for the Request for Funding applications will be in early 2026. If you are interested in learning more about this future funding opportunity, please contact us.
The MW-PRC Partner Grants, the Partnership Development and the Program Implementation, below, are open for applications.
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, a Program Implementation project grant and 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 Arizona, Colorado, 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.
