Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology, is the recipient of a 1-year, $99,994 General Mills Foundation Twin Cities Community Action grant funding her "A Family Affair" pilot study to develop and test intervention components of a home-based, physical activity and healthy eating program for African American girls aged 11-13 years and their mothers. The study's primary aim is to increase girls' daily physical activity, decrease sedentary behavior and increase healthy eating with a secondary aim of increasing physical activity and healthy eating among their mothers. As the PI on the grant, Barr-Anderson will be working with the North Community YMCA and its surrounding neighborhood, and partner across disciplines with the U of M's Division of Epidemiology & Community Health's (EpiCH) Mary Story, Melissa Nelson Laska and Sara Veblen-Mortenson.