Table 1 Project timeline and milestones

1

• Hire program coordinator

• Staff hired

• Identify, adapt, and/or develop the Child Ecological Model Assessment Tool Kit

• Tools developed

• Develop “menu” of selected evidence based or evidence‐informed approaches for improved nutrition and physical activity for 4‐year‐olds

• Communities chosen

• Choose intervention and comparison communities

2

• Conduct community assessments

• Child Ecological Model Assessments completed

• Hire community coaches for intervention communities

• Coaches hired and trained

• Train community coaches and other key leaders of intervention communities on community coaching

• Interventions implemented

• Each of the intervention and comparison communities begin implementation of at least one nutrition and one physical activity intervention

3

• Interventions continue

• Interventions implemented

• Training continues

• Process evaluations monitor progress of interventions

• Process evaluations on‐going

4

• Interventions continue

• Interventions implemented

• Training continues

• Process evaluations monitor progress of interventions

• Process evaluations on‐going

5

• Interventions continue for final year

• Interventions implemented for final year

• Intervention communities develop sustainability plan

• Data analysis completed and disseminated

• Complete post‐assessments

• Tool kit and other findings available on‐line

• Analyze data

• Organize findings into a “Best Practices Tool Kit” for dissemination via technology such as eXtension

• Research manuscripts and conference proposals begin