Table 1.

Project timeline and milestones

Year	Activities	Milestones
1	• Hire program coordinator	• Staff hired
	• Identify, adapt, and/or develop the Child Ecological Model Assessment Tool Kit	• Tools developed
	• Develop “menu” of selected evidence based or evidence‐informed approaches for improved nutrition and physical activity for 4‐year‐olds	• Communities chosen
	• Choose intervention and comparison communities
2	• Conduct community assessments	• Child Ecological Model Assessments completed
	• Hire community coaches for intervention communities	• Coaches hired and trained
	• Train community coaches and other key leaders of intervention communities on community coaching	• Interventions implemented
	• Each of the intervention and comparison communities begin implementation of at least one nutrition and one physical activity intervention
3	• Interventions continue	• Interventions implemented
	• Training continues	• Process evaluations monitor progress of interventions
	• Process evaluations on‐going
4	• Interventions continue	• Interventions implemented
	• Training continues	• Process evaluations monitor progress of interventions
	• Process evaluations on‐going
5	• Interventions continue for final year	• Interventions implemented for final year
	• Intervention communities develop sustainability plan	• Data analysis completed and disseminated
	• Complete post‐assessments	• Tool kit and other findings available on‐line
	• Analyze data
	• Organize findings into a “Best Practices Tool Kit” for dissemination via technology such as eXtension
	• Research manuscripts and conference proposals begin