French Lab

University of Minnesota

PUBLIC HEALTH & PREV MEDICINE

Minneapolis · United States

NIH-funded
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NIH R01 · 2025

Neighborhood Park Youth Sports Program Fee Waiver and Intensive Family Outreach to Promote Physical Activity in Low-Income Children Ages 6-12 Years

Neighborhood parks hold great potential as attractive and accessible settings to promote and enhance physical activity (PA) among racially/ethnically diverse low-income youth. However, little park-based intervention research has been conducted to explore how this potential might be realized. No previous park-level intervention has experimentally evaluated youth sports program fee waivers or intensive park outreach strategies to increase child enrollment and participation in park-based youth sports programs. The proposed research combines these promising intervention strategies into a single intervention and uses a gold-standard randomized controlled study design, and focuses on a…

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