Gathering Measures from Community Partners

Once communities are recruited into the intervention, they will be scheduled for evaluation measures before the start of the intervention. Clinic data and health care provider self-reported measures will be collected. ECE Director and Teachers will self-report their environment and children’s dietary intake and menus will be analyzed. Self-report measures from teachers will also be collected. Families will complete survey measures on family health behaviors.

Demographic Survey

ECE partners will fill out a demographic sheet included in their initial survey packet. These forms will help our staff understand the characteristics of our community partners and their sites as well as create descriptive factors for each.

ECE Level Measures

The packet that Directors and Teachers receive are all self-report measures, and distribution and collection of these measures will be coordinated with each site. Measures included in packets are:

Director Packet Documents

• D.1 Demographic Survey for Directors • D.2 EPAO SR for Director General

Teacher Packet Documents

• E.1 Demographic Survey for Teachers • E.2 EPAO SR Staff Daily • E.3 EPAO SR Staff General

Teachers and staff level will conduct a self-report observation of the ECE for infrastructure and teacher support of obesity prevention behaviors using the validated 174-item Revised Environmental and Policy Assessment Observation (EPAO) (EPAOS SR).98 Menus will be obtained and analyzed during conversations with the Director and Cook throughout the community capacity building process. Consistent with previous studies, we will examine 1 week of meals and input serving size to minimum licensure-required serving, if needed.