Organizational trust, usability, and inclusivity are key implementation facilitators for a proposed assets-based mobile health intervention.

The purpose of our work was to design a program to connect families with children to existing health-promoting resources in their communities (i.e., group exercise, food pantries, community gardens). We specifically wanted to capture the needs and preferences of parents with children and community-based organizations and determine the possible barriers to creating this program. Based on prior community listening sessions, the program, called Assets for Health, would consist of a mobile app which lists community resources and a community health worker to help connect families to these resources. We presented the idea for Assets for Health to a diverse group of parents and community-based organizations using focus groups and interviews to carefully capture their thoughts. We then analyzed what was said. This work showed that parents were struggling to find community programs that fit their needs and thought a program like Assets for Health could be helpful. Also organizations were struggling to show families that they could be trusted and that all families were welcome.