Table 3.

Identified Themes, Summaries, and Representative Quotes from Interviews, continued (Process)

Domain and Theme	Summary	Representative Quote
9. Process: The program needed a champion.	The program needed a champion. The champion was most often the parent or teacher who initiated and runs the program. This individual typically approached other stakeholders, such as the school administration and the community, and they coordinated the program.	“..you have to find that one champion, that one person that is going to be your school lead, you know, and is going to be willing to do that and recruit more parents and do the schedule and make sure that there’s volunteers out there to cover the trail and everything, you know, the route.”
10. Process: Support from the community was necessary.	Having community support (e.g., organizations, neighborhood residents) resources, and partnerships was reported as helpful for program implementation and coordination.	“And, then, of course, we do like sometimes through our program we recruit like special guests from our community to walk and so I think that this has helped us solicit some broader support of just walking to school in general. Like, we’ve had, like, our city planning department in particular join my kids’ school or we’ve had a local university baseball team. So, that, I think it’s a benefit for those teams to just see what’s happening in our community and having some interaction with kids but then our kids see that, like, wow, if other people think this is important, too, like, teaching them about healthy behaviors and why walking to school is important.”
11. Process: Continual process improvements were employed.	It was common for continual process improvements to occur throughout the program. Accommodations and changes were made as needed to help the program run successfully, such as adjusting the drop off location or meeting time.	“…because we have -- we’re covering one end, there’s a whole other end of the school where we’ve been trying to get another kind of drop-off area and I think that’s still in the plan to get somebody to kind of man that, get it situated, because we have a lot of students coming from the other end of the school as well.”
12. Process: Program involved yellow school buses.*	The school had yellow buses that used the program, as in they use bus stopped and then students walked the rest of the way to school.	“So and we were able to use that restaurant’s parking lot, and that’s where the buses come. And they have a certain loop, you know, that they -- they go through. So they just pull in and then pull out.”

^*Three themes added during the coding process