Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland (CHORI) is a 181-bed regional and global resource for advanced pediatric healthcare, research, and medical education, with more than 200,000 patient visits per year. It maintains a designated level 1 pediatric trauma center, the region’s largest pediatric intensive care unit, and one of the largest sickle cell treatment and research centers in the world. Children’s 166 hospital-based physicians provide expert care in 30 pediatric subspecialties from adolescent medicine to urology. The renowned staff at Children’s research institute bridge basic science and clinical research in the treatment and prevention of human disease.

CHORI is currently designing a metabolic study of the SLI program. The goals of the study are to:

• Develop a strong community base that fosters trust and good rates of adherence to the proposed health assessments for school children in the Berkeley Unified School District
• Assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and the impact of the integrated SLI program
• Identify potential predictors of response to the SLI intervention that can be targeted for future large scale school-based health assessments
• Enhance child and parental health literacy