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Reaching Staff, Parents, and Community Partners to Prevent Childhood Obesity in Head Start, 2008

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  • Rachel A. Gooze
  • Cayce C. Hughes
  • Daniel M. Finkelstein
  • Robert C. Whitaker

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This report details how Head Start—the largest federally funded early childhood education program in the U.S. that reaches one million children—uses a multilevel approach to prevent childhood obesity that involves staff, parents, and community partners.

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  • Rachel A. Gooze & Cayce C. Hughes & Daniel M. Finkelstein & Robert C. Whitaker, "undated". "Reaching Staff, Parents, and Community Partners to Prevent Childhood Obesity in Head Start, 2008," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 2cd58946f2ee43daacf1a9118, Mathematica Policy Research.
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