# Family-Based Prevention to Promote the Social-Emotional Functioning and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors of Black & Latinx Children

> **NIH NIH P20** · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · 2024 · $148,996

## Abstract

Preventive interventions with minoritized families have rarely included content to promote ethnic-racial 
socialization (i.e., how families teach their children about the values, traditions, and practices associated with 
their ethnic-racial group). Ethnic-racial socialization plays a key role in mitigating the negative effects of racism 
on health outcomes and in contributing to children’s social-emotional functioning and healthy-lifestyle 
behaviors. This omission represents a crucial gap that may be limiting the engagement, reach, and impact of 
preventive interventions with minoritized families. Furthermore, the prevention and family intervention fields 
have focused on either social-emotional functioning or healthy lifestyle behaviors, rather than integrating the 
two domains. Addressing each domain in a separate intervention misses the synergistic effects and is less cost 
effective than tackling both domains using a single, integrated intervention. To address these gaps, the main 
objective of this project is to test whether providing parenting support, with an added emphasis on ethnic-racial 
socialization and healthy lifestyle behaviors, improves the social-emotional functioning and healthy lifestyle 
behaviors of Black and Latinx children ages 3-6. The guiding hypothesis is that incorporating these 
components into a parenting intervention will lead to improvements in children’s health as compared to a 
control condition. This pilot project is novel in that it (a) interweaves positive parenting practices, ethnic-racial 
socialization, and healthy lifestyle behaviors into a prevention program for Black and Latinx families, and (b) 
targets preschool aged children using a brief, universal prevention approach, which increases potential for 
dissemination and scalability. A type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation design is used to simultaneously 
test intervention effectiveness while also gathering information on intervention delivery to inform future 
implementation trials. The specific aims are to: (a) test the preliminary effects of a preventive intervention on 
the social-emotional functioning and healthy lifestyle behaviors of Black and Latinx children, (b) identify the 
preliminary effects of the intervention on parenting outcomes, and (c) examine potential barriers and facilitators 
to intervention delivery. The expected contribution of this project is to provide important foundational 
knowledge regarding whether ethnic-racial socialization and healthy lifestyle behaviors can be integrated into a 
brief parenting intervention to enhance minoritized children’s physical and emotional health. This contribution is 
significant because it can lead to advancements in prevention efforts focused on improving child health-related 
outcomes, potentially decreasing health disparities for minoritized children.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10802441
- **Project number:** 5P20GM130420-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA
- **Principal Investigator:** Daniel Kabat Cooper
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $148,996
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-03-15 → 2027-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10802441

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10802441, Family-Based Prevention to Promote the Social-Emotional Functioning and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors of Black & Latinx Children (5P20GM130420-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-29 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10802441. Licensed CC0.

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