Under the leadership of Director Barbara H. Fiese, the Family Resiliency Center secured multiple sources of funding that led to transdisciplinary research, education, and outreach projects and programs. These projects included addressing childhood obesity in early childhood through projects such as the STRONG Kids Program, the Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Research Sciences (TOPRS), the Illinois Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Program (I-TOPP), and the Mealtime Minutes initiative.