Recipe for Success

Goal: The Recipe for Success (RFS) is a strengths-based program that aims to improve literacy and diet (healthy dietary intake) in Latino preschool children and their families in Pittsburgh. We will compare changes in outcomes from pre- to post-test in families in the RFS versus an active control condition and examine RFS families' implementation levels (dosage and adherence). Ninety Latino families will participate in this project.

Program description: RFS is a 6-week intervention delivered at home by promotoras (Latina community health workers), thus capitalizing on two ecocultural strengths of Latino communities: peer social support and family food routines. Parents learn strategies promoting parent-child conversations during food routines and family nutrition, and child healthy eating strategies. Parents rely on peer social support (promotoras) to change/sustain their use of these strategies.

Study: This is a 2-year feasibility study that started in the fall of 2023. Check back soon to learn about the results of this study.

What does this program require of parents? : Parents will receive 6 weekly, 90-minute home-based sessions delivered by promotoras, in which literacy and diet strategies are introduced, and parents practice strategies with their children and receive feedback from promotoras.

Are you interested in the Recipe for Success program? Contact the Principal and co-Principal Investigators.

• Dr. Diana Leyva DML114@PITT.EDU, School of Arts and Sciences
• Dr. Sharon Ross SEROSS@PITT.EDU, School of Education
• Dr. Patricia Documet PDOCUMET@PITT.EDU, Graduate School of Public Health

Project funded by a grant from the Brady Education Foundation