Northeastern University, the Boston Red Sox and Children’s Hospital Boston recently launched a pilot pro-gram to prevent childhood obesity.

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The community-based initiative will engage parents and child care provid-ers for pre-school-age children at two Jamaica Plain Head Start sites and in four other neighborhoods.

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