Futuros Fuertes 2.0 — Healthy start for low-income Latino infants and toddlers
Official title: Futuros Fuertes 2.0: A primary care-based intervention to prevent obesity in low-income Latino children
Funded at University of California, San Francisco · NIH-11375749 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This program offers culturally tailored support in primary care plus text messages to help low-income Latino families encourage healthy feeding and activity habits for infants and toddlers.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R01 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | University of California, San Francisco NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (San Francisco, United States) |
| Project start | September 20, 2023 |
| Project end | May 31, 2028 |
| Funding year | 2025 |
| Award (this year) | $24,632 |
| NIH project number | 3R01HD109158-03S1 |
| Project ID | NIH-11375749 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Ideal candidates are low-income Latino infants and toddlers (and their parents or caregivers) who receive care at participating primary care clinics and are within the early years of life.
✕Less likely to help
Children outside the targeted age range, families not seen at participating clinics, or children with complex medical conditions that change growth patterns may not experience benefit from this program.
What this research studies
If you join, your child will receive extra coaching delivered by culturally concordant lay health educators during regular pediatric visits and through follow-up text messages to the family. The program starts in infancy and focuses on feeding, movement, and home habits that affect early weight gain. The team builds on a prior pilot that showed improvements in child behaviors and body mass index measures. Care is delivered through participating primary care clinics that serve low-income Latino families.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this approach could help prevent unhealthy weight gain in young Latino children and lower their future risk of obesity-related health problems like diabetes.
How similar studies have gone: A pilot version (Futuros Fuertes 1.0) showed positive changes in feeding behaviors and BMI z-score, so this work builds on promising earlier results.
Where this research is happening
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University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, United States Active
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Beck, Amy Laura — University of California, San Francisco
- Study coordinator: Beck, Amy Laura
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A program to prevent obesity in low-income Latino children
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About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page.