Developing Intergenerational Interventions To Address Food Insecurity among Pre-School Children: A Community-based Participatory Approach

Children and older adults are especially vulnerable to the negative effects of food insecurity. Intergenerational strategies often engage youth and elders in shared programming that supports each group’s needs. With community partners, we established a community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) partnership to improve knowledge, access, and consumption related to healthy food at four child care centers in two states using intergenerational practices. The current paper represents work of a dedicated planning year (Year 1) to develop implementation and research plans for subsequent years of the 5-year grant. Work was guided by Israel and colleagues’ CBPAR principles.