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Community Transformation Grant Media Stories
Table of Contents
Alaska “Craig schools awarded nutrition grant,” KRBD 11/15/2012
“SEARCH list Community Transformation Grant sub-awards,” Juneau
Empire 11/18/2012
California
“Sonoma Co. receives $3.5 million grant for health care reform
efforts,” North Bay Business Journal 9/28/2012
“With obesity on the rise in L.A. County, health officials urge
meal portion control,” Daily News, Los Angeles 10/4/2012
“County receives $3.5 million grant to promote healthier
communities ,” The Community Voice 10/26/2012
“Prevention Fund Helps Rural California County Fight Cancer,
Promote Health,” Forbes 11/28/2012
“Collaborating for community health,” The Inyo Register
12/26/2012
Delaware “Congressional delegation, Nemours announce two major
federal grants to help build
healthier communities,” US Senator Christopher Coons of Delaware
10/18/2012 “Grant aims to give more kids appetite for wellness,”
Delaware Online 10/18/2012
Georgia
“Tanner gets $1.22 million grant from CDC,” Times-Georgian
10/6/2012 “Tanner gets $1.22M in federal grant,” Atlanta Business
Chronicle 10/8/2012
Illinois
“Quality Quest for Health gets $2.4 million grant,” Peoria
Journal Star 9/30/2012 “Local leaders want healthy neighbors,” The
Daily Republican 10/29/2012 “McHenry County Board approves
acceptance of We Choose Health funds,” Centegra
HealthSystems 11/6/2012 “Health Dept. works with Housing
Authority on grant initiatives,” Quad-Cities Online
12/27/2012 “Extension works on grant,” East Peoria Times
1/2/2013
Indiana
“Foundation grant to help children, trainees of 4C of Southern
Indiana,” Evansville Courier & Press 1/6/2013
Iowa “Healthy Communities helps make downtown Mt. Pleasant safer
for walkers and bikers,”
KIJL Radio11/29/2012 Kansas
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“Greater Wichita YMCA wins 2.4 million federal health grant,”
The Wichita Eagle 10/17/2012
Maine
“With $1.3M grant, Healthy Acadia triples income over 2010,”
Bangor Daily News 9/27/2012
“Maine Development Foundation Awarded $1.6 Million to Launch
Healthy Maine Streets,” Maine Development Foundation 10/2/2012
“Healthy Arcadia lands 1.3M grant,” FenceViewer 10/8/2012 “Local
$220,000 HCC grant for recreational programs for youths,” Daily
Bulldog
10/11/2012 “Partnering to Create Healthy Futures,” Maine Public
Health 11/19/2012
Maryland
Healthiest Maryland: Maximizing Wellness for 2 Million
Marylanders by 2016 Massachusetts
“Wareham gets part of $1 million Community Transformation
Grant,” WarehamVillageSoup.com 10/24/2012
“SouthCoast anti-smoking effort receives $1M grant,” The Herald
News 10/24/2012 “Grant aims to make Wareham senior housing
smoke-free,” WarehamVillageSoup.com
11/1/2012 “Boys and Girls Club of Plymouth: Healthy Plymouth
program,” Wicked Local Plymouth
11/14/2012 Michigan
“CMDHD awarded $1.6 million grant,” Clare County Review
“Together We Can: Community Transformation Grant,” The Michigan
Health Information
Alliance, Inc. Minnesota
“Heart of Brown County’ to receive grant,” The Free Press
10/7/2012
Montana “Community Transformation Grant: Built Environment,”
Mt.gov
New Mexico
“Futures Foundation gets community transformation grant,” Cibola
Beacon 10/2/2012 “City approves grant for another 12 months,” El
Defensor Chieftain 10/6/2012
New York
“Community Transformation Grant in New York City,” YouTube
8/29/2012 “Healthy community transformation under way,” Observer
11/26/12
North Carolina “Health Department partners with other counties
to receive N.C. Dept. of Public Health
grant,” Lincoln Times-News
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“Regional community transformation grant comes to Catawba
County,” Catawba County North Carolina 10/23/2012
“Spring Lake eyes grant seeking to create healthier
communities,” FayObserver 12/17/201 “Northampton County government
goes smoke free,” The Daily Herald 1/7/2013
Ohio
“Activate Allen County nets $1.2 million federal grant,” Lima
News 9/26/2012 Oklahoma
“Obamacare funding helps to keep Oklahoma programs up and
running,” NewsOk 10/15/2012
Oregon “Beaverton Community Health Partnership plans one-stop
health care using federal grant,”
The Oregonian 10/12/2012 Pennsylvania
“Merged Philly-area YMCAs flexing muscle,” Philly.com 11/22/12
South Carolina
“LiveWell Greenville awarded $1.95 million to help create
healthier communities in Greenville County,” The Travelers Rest
Tribune 10/7/2012
“Kids' health program gets $1.9M shot to boost lunches, play
sites,” GreenvilleOnline.com 10/3/2012
Washington
“HHS Awards $3.6 Million Grant for Obesity Prevention &
Tobacco Control,” B Town Blog 10/1/2012
“All publicly subsidized housing in Tacoma to go smoke-free Mach
1,” The Bellingham Herald 10/31/2012
“Prevention Fund Helps Makah Tribe Awaken Sleeping “Ways of
Wellness”,” Forbes 11/30/2012
West Virginia
“WVU awarded $400K to help create healthier rural communities,”
The State Journal 10/22/2012
“National diabetes group to return to W.Va. in 2013,” SFGate
11/12/2012 Additional Articles
“Community Transformation Grants are already making a
difference,” The Nation’s Health 1/2013
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Alaska
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KRBD Craig schools awarded nutrition grant 11/15/2012
http://www.krbd.org/2012/11/15/craig-schools-awarded-nutrition-grant/
The Craig School District is one of seven recipients of the
SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Community
Transformation grant program. $95,000 will be split among the
Southeast Alaska community groups for programs that focus on
improving health. The Craig School District will use its grant to
help develop school nutrition curriculum around fruits and
vegetables, while strengthening the school garden. Other recipients
were the Alaska Breastfeeding Coalition in Juneau; the Takshanuk
Watershed Council in Haines; Petersburg Mental Health Services;
Sitka Local Foods Network; Brave Heart Volunteers in Sitka; and the
Wrangell School District’s planned nutrition program. The next
round of grant applications will be announced sometime next
summer.
http://www.krbd.org/2012/11/15/craig-schools-awarded-nutrition-grant/
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Juneau Empire SEARHC lists Community Transformation Grant
sub-awards 11/18/2012
http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-11-18/searhc-lists-community-transformation-grant-sub-awards#.UKqF4WfhdIp
The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC)
Community Transformation Grant program will make seven sub-award
grants worth $95,000 to community groups in Southeast Alaska
interested in improving the health of their communities. A total of
15 applications from various community groups around the region
were submitted by the Oct. 19 deadline. A seven-member review board
comprised of SEARHC, Alaska Department of Health and Human Services
and rural community representatives completed the difficult task of
reviewing and scoring the applications. “All of the applicants had
great ideas and clearly wanted to improve the health of their
communities,” SEARHC Community Transformation Grant Program Manager
Martha Pearson said. According to the funding objectives, projects
should be population based and have a well-planned strategy to
address at least one of the three focus issues — tobacco-free
living; active living and healthy eating; and high-impact quality
clinical and other preventive services to prevent and control high
blood pressure and high cholesterol. Sub-award grants ranging from
$5,000 to $24,750 were available. The applications that showed
definite links to sustainable organizational practices, such as
school curricula and institutional meal guidelines, were scored the
highest. The SEARHC Community Transformation Grant sub-award
winners for Fiscal Year 2013 are:
• Alaska Breastfeeding Coalition will expand education about
worksite breastfeeding initiatives in Juneau and the region. •
Takshanuk Watershed Council will develop ways to increase access to
local produce and seafood in Haines by developing community
awareness and sourcing local foods for institutional meals. • The
Craig School District will develop its school nutrition curricula
around fruits and vegetables while strengthening the local school
garden. • Petersburg Mental Health Services and Sitka Local Foods
Network will engage their local communities in extensive community
planning around food and health needs (these are two separate
projects doing similar work). • Brave Heart Volunteers will take
the lead on connecting health and human service related
organizations in Sitka to most efficiently meet community needs. •
The Wrangell School District will develop a new school nutrition
practice that requires scratch-cooked, healthier meals for
students.
The next round of applications for Fiscal Year 2014 will be
solicited in the late summer 2013. If funding allows, SEARHC
expects to offer the chance to apply for sub-awards every year
until 2016. For more information, contact Martha Pearson at
966-8783 or [email protected].
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California
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North Bay Business Journal Dan Verel Sonoma Co. receives $3.5
million grant for health care reform efforts 9/28/2012
http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/62127/sonoma-co-receives-3-5-million-grant-for-health-care-reform-efforts/
SANTA ROSA — The county of Sonoma received $3.5 million in
funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for
efforts related to early implementation of health care reform. The
Community Transformation Grants award is one of just 40 nationwide,
totaling $70 million, according to the county’s announcement today.
“This is a groundbreaking example of local communities benefiting
from federal health care reform,” Supervisor Shirlee Zane said in a
statement. “Our innovation and partnership here in Sonoma County
set us apart, and the federal government clearly recognizes our
efforts as worthy of its investment. These funds will improve the
health of everyone in our community as we build a focused
prevention effort.” The county said programs such as Health Action,
a public-private effort to improve community health, was
instrumental in securing the grant. Health Action will also serve
as a blueprint for future efforts that the grant will go toward,
including education, access to care and community resources. The
county said it will leverage a wide network of community partners
to turn its proposal into action, investing more than half the
grant funds into local service providers and community
organizations and using remaining funds used to bolster county
programs. Specific projects included:
increasing the number of “baby-friendly” hospitals, more school
staff training to integrate physical activity into the school day,
expanding the Safe Routes to School program, supporting the local
food system by bringing fresh farm produce to schools and
providing
financial incentives for low-income individuals and families to
purchase fresh farm produce, developing nutritional standards for
county foodservice; launching a media campaign
aimed to reduce the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages and
tobacco use, training youth in suicide prevention and training
planners, policy makers, and architects in healthy community
design.
“By focusing on where people live, work, learn and play, this
grant will improve the health of many individuals, contribute to
our vibrant community, and help build the environment and systems
needed for everyone to live healthier lives,” said Rita Scardaci,
director of county Health Services. Targets for the grants are
low-income, Hispanic/Latino and youth populations, with special
attention to underserved rural areas, pregnant women and newborns.
The program is funded through the Affordable Care Act’s Prevention
and Public Health Fund, designed to support areas with fewer than
500,000 people in neighborhoods, school districts, villages, towns,
cities and counties.
http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/62127/sonoma-co-receives-3-5-million-grant-for-health-care-reform-efforts/http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/62127/sonoma-co-receives-3-5-million-grant-for-health-care-reform-efforts/
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OBESITY RATES Percent of Los Angeles County adults who are obese
by region in 2011 Antelope Valley, 34.8% San Fernando Valley, 21.1%
San Gabriel Valley, 23.9% Metro area, 20.1% West L.A., 9.8% South
L.A., 32.7% East L.A., 30.1% South Bay, 22.7%
Daily News Los Angeles Susan Abram With obesity on the rise in
L.A. County, health officials urge meal portion control
10/4/2012
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_21699442/obesity-rise-l-county-health-officials-urge-meal
Concerned with the rising number of obese residents across Los
Angeles County, health officials on Thursday unveiled an ad
campaign to encourage people to control their food portions.
Billboards and ads showing photographs of foods such as three
slices of pizza versus two with calorie information already have
rolled out at train stations and bus benches across the county. |
See photo gallery. Television, radio and social media ads will also
promote the "Choose Health L.A" campaign with the message "Choose
Less. Weigh Less." The goal is to make people think about the
amount of calories they choose by, for example, comparing a large
soda and fries to a smaller portion, said Dr. Jonathan Fielding,
director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
"The goal of this campaign is to get people to start thinking about
how much food they are consuming in each meal," Fielding said, "If
we can get people to think about that and start eating less, or
ordering smaller portions, then we will be on the right track." The
campaign was launched just as countywide adult obesity rates were
released. Figures from 2011 show the number of obese people had
increased 74 percent over the past 14 years. The percentage of
obese adults steadily expanded from 13.6 percent in 1997 to 23.6
percent in 2011. Fielding said the ads were informational and in no
way do they represent government telling people what they should
eat or how much.
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"This gives them guidance," Fielding said. "Does government have
a role? Absolutely, but in the kinds of things we're doing. This
information is empowering." But the ads also come at a time when
more people have questioned government's role in combating obesity,
diabetes and other chronic conditions. Starting next year in New
York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's soda ban will prohibit
restaurants, carts and concessions at movie theaters and stadiums
from selling sugary drinks in cups or containers larger than 16
ounces. The new law has branded Bloomberg the "nanny mayor" by
some. In California last year, a bill by Sen. Alex Padilla,
D-Pacoima, required large chain restaurants to post calories on
menus and menu boards. Organizations that watch such policies say
the choice of foods and the portions people eat are a matter of
personal responsibility, not the government's business. "The story
of obesity and regulation policy is that there hasn't been any
policy that has had an impact," said J. Justin Wilson, senior
research analyst for the Washington D.C.-based Center for Consumer
Freedom, a nonprofit supported by restaurants and food companies.
"There are two sets of policies, the carrot and the stick," Wilson
said. "The carrot is when government incentivizes health by
building bike paths. The stick is when they try to force us against
our will. These have a tendency to not work." Wilson said Los
Angeles' "Choose Health L.A." campaign does lean more toward
helping people make better decisions through personal
responsibility, but he also questioned the need and the cost. The
Department of Health spent $1 million on this portion of the
"Choose Health L.A." campaign, with funding from the federal
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Community
Transformation Grant. "You need to know what's in your food to make
good choices and I do sometimes feel it's a good idea to advertise
how much," Wilson said. "But it does not take a Ph.D. in nutrition
to know the difference between a banana and a banana split. You're
not going to hear me say this is a terrible invasion of our
privacy, but it's sort of like, really, do we need that poster to
tell us this?" Fielding agreed there is no easy way to combat
obesity through one campaign because it is a complicated issue born
of several factors: available food choices, environment, income,
and even safety. It took generations for people to realize smoking
was unhealthy, he added. "Just like with tobacco (prevention) there
wasn't one approach that got us here," Fielding said. "We want
people to change their perceptions of what in fact is good food and
good portions." Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said
the campaign was one of many initiatives planned to help residents
make healthier choices, and that includes feeling safe enough in
their neighborhoods and communities to walk or bike to work.
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"We are working with key partners to enhance our neighborhoods
so residents feel safe and comfortable walking, biking and taking
public transit," he said. "Our aim is to give people access to
healthy foods and beverages where they live, work and play." Some
residents, however, liked the idea of the ads. Chris Warmsley, an
Inglewood resident and chef, said he has seen one of the billboards
near Manchester and Prairie avenues. He said he has instilled good
eating habits in his children, but he knows it's difficult for
other parents. "I'm a professional chef so I'm all for eating
healthy, but a lot of single parents don't," Warmsley said. "And
the schools have been hit so hard, we don't have kids learning to
eat good food. "The only thing about (advertising) portion control
is that we've been so programmed to eat large portions that, when
you slash their portions, they'll freak out." Aubrey Kiley, a
mother of two young children from Hawthorne, said she too liked the
overall message. "I think this should have been done a while ago -
encouraging portion control," Kiley said. "Instead of eating just
fruits and vegetables and meat, you can still eat what you want.
Just less of it." Other findings in the L.A. County data released
Thursday found: Among those aged 18 to 39 years, the obesity rate
increased 104 percent between 1997 and 2011. For those 40 years and
older the obesity rate increased 49 percent during the same time.
In 2011, the obesity rate was highest among Latinos (31.6 percent)
and African- Americans (31 percent), intermediate among whites (18
percent) and lowest among Asians/Pacific Islanders (8.9 percent).
L.A. County residents with less formal education had higher rates
of obesity: 32.3 percent among those with less than a high school
education compared to 15.9 percent among those with a college
degree. Obesity rates were higher among people with lower household
incomes: 30.2 percent among those with incomes below the federal
poverty level compared with 19.9percent among those with incomes at
200 percent or above the federal poverty level. The only good news
within the data was that children in fifth, seventh and ninth
grades showed a decline in obesity rates over the last several
years, from 23.3 percent in 2005 to 22.4 percent in 2010. Health
officials remain concerned however, because obesity is a leading
risk factor of chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart
problems. In L.A. County, the percentage of adults who had been
diagnosed with diabetes was more than four times higher among those
who were obese compared with those who were normal or
underweight.
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The Community Voice County receives $3.5 million grant to
promote healthier communities 10/26/2012
http://www.thecommunityvoice.com/article.php?id=5480 Sonoma County
received $3.5 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services’ Community Transformation Grants (CTG)
today. The funding is the result of an early series of critical
investments related to federal health care reform. The grant was
awarded to Sonoma County through a highly competitive application
process and the County received one of only 40 awards provided
nationally. Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Shirlee
Zane commented, “This is a groundbreaking example of local
communities benefitting from federal health care reform. Our
innovation and partnership here in Sonoma County set us apart and
the federal government clearly recognizes our efforts as worthy of
its investment. These funds will improve the health of everyone in
our community as we build a focused prevention effort.” The County
will leverage a wide network of community partners to turn its
proposal into action, investing over half of the grant funds into
local service providers and community organizations, with the
remaining funds used to bolster County programs. Specific projects
include:
Increasing the number of Baby Friendly hospitals More school
staff training to integrate physical activity into the school day
Expanding the Safe Routes to School program Supporting the local
food system by bringing fresh farm produce to schools and
providing
financial Developing nutritional standards for County food
Launching a media campaign aimed to reduce the consumption of sugar
sweetened
beverages and tobacco use Conducting training for youth in
suicide prevention Conducting training in healthy community design
for planners, policy makers, and
architects
The projects funded by the CTG grant will reach the county’s
entire population. Targeted interventions will focus on low-income,
Hispanic/Latino, and youth populations with special attention to
underserved rural areas of Sonoma County, pregnant women and
newborns. “Health care reform is saving money, saving lives and
improving the health and wellbeing of our communities,” said Rep.
Mike Thompson. “These funds will help make Sonoma County healthier,
and when the folks in our workforce and their children are healthy,
productivity is up and costs are down.” Overall, the United States
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded
approximately $70 million in prevention 40 grants nationwide, all
focused on improving the health of small communities. The CTG
Program is a comprehensive prevention and wellness initiative
launched in 2011 and funded through the Affordable Care Act’s
Prevention and Public Health Fund. These new funds will support
areas with fewer than 500,000 people in neighborhoods, school
districts, villages, towns, cities, and counties.
http://www.thecommunityvoice.com/article.php?id=5480
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For more information on the County’s effort to be the healthiest
County in California by 2020, please visit
www.sonomahealthaction.org.
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/thughes/Desktop/Tim/CTG/www.sonomahealthaction.org
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Forbes Rob Waters Prevention Fund Helps Rural California County
Fight Cancer, Promote Health 11/28/2012
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robwaters/2012/11/28/prevention-fund-helps-rural-california-county-fight-cancer-promote-health/
Hikers using Dragoon Gulch Trail in Sonora, California; photo:
Todd Stolp Second in a series Tuolumne County, California is one of
more than 60 cities, counties, states, tribes and nonprofit groups
that received Community Transformation Grants totaling $107 million
last year from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The
money for these grants came from the Prevention and Public Health
Fund, a funding arm of the Affordable Care Act established to
combat disease and lower healthcare costs by promoting wellness and
prevention. The Prevention Fund is helping these communities work
to prevent diabetes and cancer and to increase the health and
fitness of residents. But it’s also under threat as some
Congressional leaders press for budget cuts in advance of the
so-called fiscal cliff. In my blog this week, I’m examining how
health officials and residents in places like Tuolumne are putting
money from the Prevention Fund to use. Before you can improve the
health of a community, you need to understand its problems. So when
Tuolumne, a small county in central California that includes parts
of Yosemite National Park, was awarded a $237,000-a-year federal
grant last year from the Prevention and Public Health Fund (part of
a $5.9 million grant for small and rural counties in California
administered by the nonprofit Public Health Institute), the first
step Health Officer Todd Stolp took was to dive into existing data.
The second was to gather his own. Stolp knew there was a high
incidence of cancer so he pored over numbers collected by the
California Health Department. They showed that Tuolumne had the
state’s highest rate of breast cancer, was near the top of the list
in lung and bronchus cancers and had higher than average rates of
melanoma, bladder and prostate cancer. Stolp also knew a lot of
Tuolumne residents smoked but he had no reliable numbers. And he
didn’t know much about residents’ attitudes towards smoking-control
efforts. So he used money from the
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county’s federal grant to survey people in the county about
their use and exposure to tobacco products. What he found surprised
him. In half of Tuolumne households, he learned, at least one
person consumes some type of tobacco. In mobile home parks,
apartments and condominiums, that number rises to two-thirds. A
whopping 70 percent of those aged 18 to 29 live with at least one
tobacco user, as do about 60 percent of people whose homes include
a child. “Overall, tobacco consumption is even higher than we
thought,” Stolp says. Many of those who don’t smoke themselves said
they were exposed to secondhand smoke—30 percent overall and 40
percent of those in mobile home parks, apartments and condominiums.
The majority of people said they’d support regulations to ban
smoking in the outdoor common areas of apartment buildings, results
that surprised Stolp. “We have a fairly regulation-averse community
and we tend to be an independent-thinking group here in the
foothills of the Sierras,” Stolp says. The survey results are now
informing public debate about smoking regulations and creating
awareness about the need to protect residents from secondhand
exposure. “For me, this is what public health is all about:
providing the community with clear information about health risks
so people can begin to act,” Stolp says. Tobacco use remains one of
the two top causes of death in Tuolumne, Stolp says; the other is
the variety of chronic conditions that result when people eat too
much unhealthy food and engage in too little healthy activity.
Stolp hopes to get more residents moving their feet instead of
using their cars by upgrading a new park in the county’s largest
city, Sonora. Part of the county’s CTG grant is going to Sonora to
develop a plan to widen and extend Dragoon Gulch Trail, a 2.5 mile
loop on the city’s periphery, so it connects to Sonora High School
and the downtown commercial district. Improving paths, sidewalks
and trails can also make it safer for students to walk to school
and residents to hike or jog, Stolp said. In October, two
pedestrians were killed on consecutive days when they were hit by
cars. One of the key goals of the trail upgrade is to create safe
options for active transportation by improving lighting, traffic
controls and other measures that have been shown to increase
pedestrian safety and reduce injuries and deaths. “We’ve designed
our communities for four-wheeled vehicles and seem to have
forgotten about the dangers for people using their two legs,” Stolp
says. “We want to change that equation and help people get active
safely.” All this week, I’ll be using this space to talk about the
impact prevention funds are having in communities across the
country. If you think prevention is important, you can do your part
too by telling your representatives in the House and Senate to
support the Affordable Care Act—and the Prevention and Public
Health Fund.
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5902/p/dia/action/public/index.sjs?action_KEY=12209
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The Inyo Register Marilyn Blake Philip
Collaborating for community health 12/26/2012
http://www.inyoregister.com/node/4263
Excuses for not keeping one of the most common new year’s
resolutions are rapidly dwindling with the advent of Bishop’s new,
free-of-charge community gym in 2013. In fact, said Toiyabe Indian
Health Project’s Director of Preventive Medicine Rick Frey, the new
20-piece workout station, outdoor exercise equipment in the Bishop
City Park on Park Avenue, south of Bishop Senior Center, is a gift
to the entire community from the Bishop Paiute Tribe. The new
outdoor exercise equipment is currently being installed on an 1,800
square-foot patch of decomposed granite which will be covered in
poly-pave to create a firm, natural floor. The outdoor gym, under
its “impressive” shade structure, cost about $60,000, said Frey and
should be available for public use “just after the first of the new
year. “This pilot project is part of the Community Transformation
Grant we received last year from the Center for Disease Control.”
Inyo County’s CDC received funding from the Prevention and Public
Health Fund which is an aspect of Obamacare’s Affordable Care Act,
explained Frey. “Toiyabe’s goal is to reduce chronic disease in
Inyo and Mono counties … by 5 percent over the next five years.
“One of our strategic directions is to increase active living
opportunities. Although Native Americans are our target population,
we want to improve policies, systems, and environmental changes
that not only help Indians but the general population.” And since
Indians are part of the general population, explained Frey, the
tribe voted to install the equipment in the city park. The outdoor
gym includes an air walker with very little resistance for
cardiovascular workout. Lateral pull down/shoulder presses work the
back, arm and shoulder muscles, explained Frey, demonstrating.
“There are no weights, I use my own body weight as the resistance,”
as does all of the equipment. The elliptical machine “is what
people pay a lot of money to join a gym for,” said Frey and “the
price is right.” There are leg presses for assisted squats; chest
presses; static ab boards; and a leg and hand stationary bicycle
“with no resistance. It’s pretty easy,” said Frey, hand pedaling
like mad, “but I can feel it.” Bi-level chin-up bars also feature
dip bars for tricep-working “bent-arm hangs.” At the five-station
core fit unit in the center of the al fresco gym, abs and low back
muscles can get a workout with small air walkers; an ab cruncher,
which, according to Frey, mid-demonstration, “is not for the faint
of heart;” and side-swingers. “It’s like skiing,” said Frey,
supplying slope-swooshing sounds. According to Frey, the city’s
future plans for this location include more soccer fields, a
walking path and a bike path that links the out door gym, the city
park, the Sterling Heights community area, the shopping center and
the community gardens. Decals are on order which will delineate the
safe and proper use of each piece of equipment and which muscle
groups are involved. The decals will also include QR, or quick
read, codes so that users “with a Smart Phone can actually view an
instructional video for each piece of equipment,” Frey
explained.
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There are also plans for a bench and central signage with safety
information and “a big welcome, something like ‘free of charge, be
safe, have fun, get healthy,’” grinned Frey. And “if this outdoor
gym is successful, we will consider doing something similar in
other Inyo and Mono County communities,” said Frey. “The key thing,
is that this community-wide health opportunity is the result of a
positive partnership between the City of Bishop and Toiyabe Indian
Health Project. This is certainly the kind of venture that builds
bridges between communities, fosters future opportunities and has
real potential to improve general population health.”
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Delaware
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US Senator Christopher Coons of Delaware Meredith Rosenthal
Congressional delegation, Nemours announce two major federal grants
to help build healthier communities
10/18/2012
http://www.coons.senate.gov/newsroom/releases/release/congressional-delegation-nemours-announce-two-major-federal-grants-to-help-build-healthier-communities/
WILMINGTON, Del. – U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and
U.S. Rep. John Carney joined officials from Nemours at the Delaware
Children’s Museum in Wilmington to announce two federal grants with
a combined total of nearly $6 million toward helping build
healthier communities. Nemours received a five year cooperative
agreement from the Centers for Disease Control to support healthy
lifestyles for young children in child care under the Taking Steps
to Healthy Success: Early Care and Education Learning Collaboration
program. During the first year of funding, the initiative will
receive $4.2 million to help early care and education providers
adopt nutrition, breastfeeding support, physical activity and
screen time policies and practices. This funding is made available
through the Affordable Care Act’s Prevention and Public Health
Fund. Over the course of this five year funding period, Nemours
will focus work in six states with the goal of reaching 84,500
children. In Delaware, programming focusing on promoting healthy
early care and education environments is already underway through
private funding by Nemours. The initiatives in the six additional
states will be based on the Delaware model.
Nemours was also awarded a two-year grant of nearly $1.7 million
through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Community
Transformation Grants Small Communities Program to support public
health efforts to reduce chronic diseases, promote healthier
lifestyles, reduce health disparities and control health care
spending. In Delaware, approximately 179,500 people will be served
by the grant.
Community partners and seven school districts serving
communities with the state’s highest populations of children living
in poverty have been identified to develop wellness policies and
community infrastructure to support healthy lifestyles. Those
districts and partners include: Sussex County Health Promotion
Coalition; Christina, Colonial, Red Clay, Capital, Woodbridge,
Indian River and Seaford School Districts; American Lung
Association-Delaware Region; Delaware Ecumenical Council on
Children and Families; Delaware State University Center for Health
Promotion; University of Delaware College of Health Sciences; and
University of Delaware Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies. By
focusing on where people live, work, learn and play, the Community
Transformation Grant program is expected to improve the health of
more than four out of 10 U.S. citizens—about 130 million
Americans.
“The key to getting better results and lowering costs in our
health care system is better coordination of care and increasing
our investment in prevention to avoid illness and injury whenever
possible,” said Senator Tom Carper. “With the help of these grants,
Nemours can implement these innovative programs to help prevent
children from getting sick in the first place. That’s a win-win for
the health of their patients and the health of our economy.”
“Investing in collaborative, preventative programs saves lives
and keeps our kids and our community healthier,” Senator Chris
Coons said. “Building healthy communities takes hard work and
collaboration, but it also takes resources. It’s terrific news that
Nemours received these grants in support of its efforts to improve
the lives of so many in Delaware and the region.”
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“A focus on prevention is critical to reducing the nation’s
healthcare costs, and allowing individuals to live longer, more
productive lives,” said Congressman Carney. “The best way to
achieve that goal is by teaching young people healthy habits that
will stick with them as they grow older. Nemours is the
standard-bearer in Delaware and across the nation for reaching
children at an early age and teaching them important lessons about
nutrition and physical activity. I’m excited that the funding
announced today will support and enhance their efforts.”
“Reaching kids early is the key to combating childhood obesity,”
said Debbie Chang, Vice President of Policy & Prevention at
Nemours. “Providing early care and education providers with the
tools they need to help families develop healthy habits will go a
long way toward ensuring the long term health and wellness of
children.”
Nemours is an internationally recognized children’s health
system that owns and operates the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for
Children in Wilmington, along with major pediatric specialty
clinics in Delaware, Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Established as The Nemours Foundation through the legacy of Alfred
I. du Pont, Nemours offers pediatric clinical care, research,
education, advocacy and prevention programs to families in the
communities it serves.
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Delaware Online Melissa Nann Burke
Grant aims to give more kids appetite for wellness 10/18/2012
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20121019/NEWS/310190042/Grant-aims-give-more-kids-appetite-wellness?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home&gcheck=1
When kids at BayHealth Child Care Center in Dover want a second
helping of fruit, the teacher suggests a veggie instead. If the
child declines, a teacher encourages him to try. “Take a
‘no-thank-you’ bite,” the center’s director, Brenda Kibler, said.
“If you don’t like it, put it back.” In the last year, the center
installed self-serve water coolers in every classroom, took juice
off its menu and limited daily “screen” time (TV and computer use)
to less than 30 minutes. Staff members measure a minimum 120
minutes of physical activity a day for each preschooler, preferably
outdoors. “At first, the kids said, ‘Where’s the chicken nuggets?’
But it’s been a year, and they don’t expect nuggets or french fries
anymore,” Kibler said. “We just don’t eat it here.” The changes
came after Kibler and other staffers took part in training sessions
on how to support healthy lifestyles in toddlers, preschool-age
children and their families. The aim is to instill healthy habits
at an early age and influence parents’ thinking – from
breastfeeding to portion control. Nearly 27 percent of American
children ages 2 to 5 are overweight or obese. The model program,
developed by Nemours/Alfred I. DuPont Hospital in Delaware, will be
replicated in six other states over five years through an agreement
between Nemours and the Centers for Disease Control. Nemours
officials and Delaware’s congressional delegation announced a
$4.2-million grant Thursday to fund the first year. The funding
will come from the Prevention and Public Health Fund established by
President Obama’s healthcare law, officials said. They also
discussed a $1.7-million grant that Nemours will use to partner
with community and public-health agencies and seven Delaware school
districts to develop wellness policies in Christina, Colonial, Red
Clay, Capital, Woodbridge, Indian River and Seaford. “For example,
we could work with the Division of Social Services to establish
school-friendly hours, so that parents could more easily update
information or apply for food stamps,” Nemours spokeswoman Tavanya
Lockett said. Nemours executive Debbie Chang emphasized the
strategy of collaborating with state and community stakeholders,
building on existing systems and training educators who interact
with children and their families every day.
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Through five, free training sessions, the Early Care and
Education Learning Collaboration program will engage early
childcare providers in New Jersey, Arizona, Florida, Indiana,
Kansas and Missouri, encouraging them to adopt policies and
practices such as those implemented at BayHealth Child Care Center.
“Part of this is increasing the providers’ knowledge, and the
childcare staff modeling healthy behavior,” said Chang, Nemours
vice president for policy and prevention. “Sitting down with the
children for a family-style meal. Choosing water over sweet
beverages, low-fat over whole milk.” Bayhealth staff ask kids to
consider whether they’re still hungry before serving seconds.
They’ve held portion-control demos for parents to illustrate
appropriate servings for 1- to 3-year-olds. “One mother of a
6-month-old baby burst into tears. She said, ‘I never knew I was
overfeeding my child,’” Kibler said. Some parents chaffed at the
change. A doctor complained his kid didn’t want to eat in front of
the TV anymore but sit around the table. Another parent questioned
why toddlers can’t watch TV while at daycare. “We’re getting paid
to do something different, and we don’t want these kids to be
sedentary,” Kibler said. “Nemours changed our ways of thinking.
They gave us the tools we need to fight childhood obesity. But we
have to do the work.”
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Georgia
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Times-Georgian Winston Jones Tanner gets $1.22 million grant
from CDC 10/6/2012
http://www.times-georgian.com/view/full_story/20382617/article-Tanner-gets--1-22-million-grant-from-CDC?instance=west_ga_news
Tanner Health System has received a $1.22 million Community
Transformation Grant for use in prevention, chronic disease and
wellness efforts in Carroll, Haralson and Heard counties. The
Tanner grant is part of $70 million awarded to 40 community
non-profit programs by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention in its Small Communities Program to expand clinical and
preventive services, affecting about 9.2 million Americans. Tanner
was the only Georgia program and only one of eight hospital systems
in the country to receive the grant. Loy Howard, Tanner Health
System president and CEO, said the funds will be used to support
efforts to reduce obesity, improve nutritional awareness, increase
physical activity, reduce tobacco usage and improve the emotional
well-being in the three counties. “This is the largest grant in our
history,” Howard said. “The significance of this grant is that it’s
the beginning steps of Tanner starting to transform its mission.
Since its beginning, Tanner has been centered on taking care of
people who are sick or having babies. Like most healthcare systems,
we have not done in a lot in the area of wellness, specifically
addressing chronic diseases, because of the reimbursement system.
We realize we’re going to have to help our citizens earlier in
their healthcare situations.” Tanner earlier this year, approved a
five-year strategic plan, which includes development of a new
community health division of Tanner Health System to focus on
prevention, wellness, chronic disease management and early
intervention efforts. This new division will be led by Denise
Taylor, senior vice president and chief community health strategy
and brand officer. “Our communities in West Georgia are suffering
from significant health issues that are literally cutting lives
short,” Taylor said. “Chronic disease, tobacco use, poor nutrition
and lack of exercise are taking a tremendous toll on our region.
These funds will go a long way to help us bring a message of health
and hope to our neighbors in Carroll, Haralson and Heard counties.
Tanner will be putting its resources directly where our residents
live, work, learn and play, providing education, services and
practical tools to help residents build healthier lifestyles.”
Taylor said programs funded by this new grant will add to the
community health emphasis already started with Tanner’s Get Healthy
West Georgia initiative launched earlier this year, funded by a
Community Foundation of West Georgia grant and private donors. She
said in less than six months, that program has enrolled more than
1,200 community members who are now actively engaged in improving
their lifestyles through diet and exercise. She said the CDC funds
will be used in 14 different initiatives in areas of tobacco
cessation, active living, healthy eating, preventive services and
emotional well being. “We’ll be doing things like building
community gardens and going into childcare centers, helping them
teach children about healthy eating,” she said. “We’ll also develop
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systems to talk about not smoking or chewing tobacco, how to eat
healthier and have more active lives.” She said there will also be
community marketing campaigns on healthy living and work with
farmers and restaurants to teach people how to buy and prepare
healthy food. Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, commissioner of the Georgia
Department of Public Health and state health officer, was on hand
Friday afternoon for Tanner’s grant announcement. “The purpose of
this grant is to work to reduce crises and get some preventive
strategies in place to help us have a healthy community,”
Fitzgerald said. “In the end, that will help reduce rates of heart
disease, cancer, diabetes and stroke, and also help with the
obesity issue that’s going across America right now. If we’re going
to live our normal life span, we have to make choices. We have to
eat better, move more and don’t smoke. “I’m enormously pleased and
proud of Tanner Health System for being the only one in the state
to receive this grant,” she said. “And certainly, Public Health
wrote a letter of endorsement for this grant and we supported
Tanner’s application. We’re dedicated on being a partner with
Tanner in this and we certainly have data we can share and an
epidemiologist to help analyze things.”
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Atlanta Business Chronicle Urvaksh Karkaria Tanner gets $1.22M
in federal grant 10/8/2012
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/a-healthy-conversation/2012/10/tanner-gets-122m-in-federal-grant.html
Tanner Health System was awarded nearly $1.22 million in federal
funding aimed at reducing rates of obesity, improve nutritional
awareness, increase physical activity, reduce tobacco use
prevalence for residents of Carroll, Haralson and Heard counties.
Earlier this year, Tanner’s board approved a five-year strategic
plan. A key strategy of the new plan is the development of a new
community health division of Tanner Health System, which will focus
on prevention, wellness, chronic disease management and early
intervention efforts. The federal grant from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention’s Community Transformation Grant
Small Communities program will support the efforts of the new
community health division through programs and services emphasizing
tobacco-free living, active living and healthy eating, high impact
quality clinical and preventive services, social and emotional
wellness, and healthy and safe physical environments. Tanner was
the only organization in Georgia to receive one of the grants, and
one of only eight hospital systems in the entire country. A total
of forty grants were awarded to a variety of non-profit
organizations nationally.
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Illinois
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Peoria Journal Star Pam Adams Quality Quest for Health gets $2.4
million grant 9/30/2012
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PEORIA — A year-round farmers' market planned at Carver
Community Center and more community gardens in Tazewell County are
among dozens of projects or programs that will receive funding from
a $2.4 million federal grant awarded to Quality Quest for Health of
Illinois. The two-year Community Transformation Grant, funded with
money from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is
part of the Affordable Care Act's efforts to reduce healthcare
costs by funding education and preventive programs. Quality Quest
and 14 other agencies, Partnership for a Healthy Community, intend
to reduce death rates and improve health outcomes for more than
300,000 residents in Peoria and Tazewell counties. "We're using the
money to target some of the things that are the leading causes of
death in Peoria and Tazewell," said Bonnie Paris, program
development manager for Quality Quest. Heart disease and cancer are
the leading causes of death nationally and in the two counties,
according to Paris. But in Peoria and Tazewell, strokes and chronic
lower respiratory diseases typically associated with smoking also
rank high, she said. Collaborating agencies will address key issues
aimed at reducing death rates, including reducing tobacco use,
promoting breastfeeding and developing more programs to promote
proper nutrition and physical activity in schools and the
community. "So many different things fall under this grant deserve
to be highlighted," Paris said. "We're just starting to talk to our
collaborating partners to get projects moving." Partners include
Central Illinois Wellness Council, Tazewell and Peoria County
Health Departments, Hult Center for Health Education, YMCA, city of
Peoria, Family Core, Heartland Community Health Clinic, Red Cross
Central Illinois Chapter, and the outcomes research department at
the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.
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The Daily Republican Leichan Cleary Local leaders want healthy
neighbors 10/29/2012
http://www.dailyrepublicannews.com/article/20121029/NEWS/121029130
Carterville – Leaders from all different sectors of the southern
Illinois region learned about the area's health data, what they can
do to improve the health of the community and ongoing projects that
promote healthy lifestyles. This was discussed at the
Franklin-Williamson Building a Healthier Community: A Leader's
Forum, which met at John A. Logan Community College on Thurs. Oct.
25. Woody Thorne, of Southern Illinois Healthcare, gave a
presentation about building healthier communities; working for
policy, systems and environmental change. Thorne spoke about
southern Illinois' health data. 28.7 percent of citizens of
Illinois are obese while 29.4 percent of citizens in southern
Illinois have been determined as obese. Adults who smoke in
Illinois is 16.9 percent while adults that smoke in Williamson
County and Franklin is significantly higher. For Williamson County
the percent that smoke is 27.4 percent and is 28.3 percent in
Franklin County. In order to make our communities healthier, change
is necessary. "Social culture and physical forces conspire against
change," Thorne said. He said we can reach the goal of healthier
communities through changing policy, system and environmental
changes. Thorne spoke about challenges we face in the community
that affect this. Some obstacles he discussed included, "The
prevalence of fast food and portion sizes." He said that we may be
experiencing an increased availability of leisure activity that
does not necessarily promote a healthy lifestyle, "Are we building
communities that people are able to walk in?" He emphasized that as
a community, we can make a difference. He suggested working towards
more smoke-free environments and physical activity. Southern
Illinois has made an effort to promote healthier communities
already, which were discussed at the forum. There are over 40 START
walking paths established due to the efforts of Southern Illinois
Healthcare and the American Heart Association along with Jackson
County Healthy Communities Coalition and the Franklin-Williamson
Healthy Communities Coalition, which are posted online for
citizens. Also, the The Coordinated Approach To Child Health,
(CATCH,) program has been implemented in 41 schools in southern
Illinois. CATCH focuses on nutrition and physical activity for
elementary school children in the Illinois Delta Region.
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Promoting locally grown food and promoting apples and milk in
Happy Meals are other things that have been done. The Illinois
Department of Public Health (IDPH) received a $25 million Community
Transformation Grant, (CTG,) from CDC for five years. All the
health departments in the southernmost 16 counties are partnering
and receiving funds. They are focusing on preventing chronic
disease by building healthier communities through policy, system
and environmental changes. After the presentation, participants in
the forum split into groups and talked about different things they
were doing at their workplaces in order to be healthier and more
physically active. They also discussed things they could work on
and change within their workplaces and the community to promote
healthier lifestyles. Once the groups were done discussing, each of
them presented what they talked about to the rest of the attendees.
Robin Koehl, of Franklin-Williamson Bi-County Health Department
spoke to the group before the forum ended, "I am impressed with
what is already being done." She said that something to think about
is where to go from here, "We want work to continue." There will be
a Franklin-Williamson Healthy Communities Coalition, (FWHCC,)
meeting Dec. 20 at 12:00 p.m. in Marion at Man Tra Con. The
coalition meets every other month. For more information go to:
[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
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Centegra HealthSystems McHenry County Board approves acceptance
of We Choose Health funds 11/6/2012
http://centegra.org/mchenry-county-board-approves-acceptance-of-we-choose-health-funds/
The McHenry County Board recently approved the McHenry County
Department of Health’s (MCDH) acceptance of almost $300,000 in
grant money. The We Choose Health grant funds a statewide
initiative to implement proactive health programs in three
important ways, including healthy eating and active living,
smoke-free living and a safe environment. The program is funded by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Community
Transformation Grant (CTG) to promote healthy lifestyles and reduce
health disparities. “I want to congratulate McHenry County
Department of Health on receiving one of 21 We Choose Health grants
and encourage everyone in the community to get involved in the
exciting new programs coming your way,” said Illinois Department of
Public Health Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck. Centegra Health System
dietitian Julie Patterson is part of McHenry County’s Mobilizing
for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) obesity work
group that collaborated to apply for the multi-year grant. She
worked with professionals from MCDH, Advocate Good Shepherd
Hospital and Sherman Health to develop a strategy for combatting
obesity in McHenry County. “We are very excited to have received
board approval and I am so grateful for our group’s collaboration,”
Patterson said. “It’s a testament to the value of having major
organizations work together to improve the health of our
community.” Partnering with community-based organizations, funding
will be used to support the existing Coordinated School Health
program that focuses on improving overall health of the school
community, establish safe walking and biking routes to school,
further policies for smoke-free outdoor spaces such as parks,
create joint use agreements between schools, communities and groups
to increase the number of facilities and areas for physical
activity, and make roads more accessible for pedestrian traffic.
“In McHenry County, about six out of every 10 people are overweight
or obese, according to the 2007 Behavioral Risk Surveillance
Survey,” Patterson said. “This grant will help us modify local
infrastructure as well as support programs that will help people
get active and improve their health. It also will help us create a
local infrastructure to help people get active and improve their
health.” Created by the Affordable Care Act, the CTG program
supports states and communities that tackle root causes of poor
health so Americans can lead healthier, more productive lives. For
more information about We Choose Health, call MCDH at
815-334-4510.
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Quad-Cities Online Health Dept. works with Housing Authority on
grant initiatives 12/27/2012
http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=621215
The Henry and Stark County Health Departments is pleased to
announce it has been working with the Henry County Housing
Authority on "Smoke Free" initiatives as a part of its new "We
Choose Health" Grant. "We Choose Health" is a multi-year Illinois
Department of Public Health (IDPH) initiative to encourage and
support obesity and tobacco prevention in Illinois Communities.
IDPH received a Community Transformation Grant (CTG) from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to work with
communities to implement proactive health programs. Alison Womack,
Health Department "We Choose Health" Grant Community Health
Advisor/Specialist notes, "We are pleased to be working with the
Henry County Housing Authority to help with smoke free initiatives
in its multi-housing units. The truth is that secondhand smoke
exposure poses serious health threats to children and adults.
According to the US Surgeon General, there is no safe level of
secondhand smoke exposure. Eliminating indoor smoking is the only
way to protect nonsmokers from the harmful effects of tobacco
smoke. For residents of multi-unit housing (e.g., apartment
buildings and condominiums), secondhand smoke can be a major
concern given that it can migrate from other units through
ventilation systems, plumbing, electrical lines and doorways."
"Smoke-Free" Initiatives that the Housing Authority is currently
undertaking include:
Instituting smoking huts at their four high-rises (Maple
City-Geneseo, Lincoln-Galva, and Hollis and Washington in
Kewanee).
Making outdoor cigarette butt receptacles available at their
multi-unit housing and tracking the frequency of cleaning and
disposal of these receptacles.
Adopting and approving a smoke free policy by the Housing
Authority's Board of Directors. Womack adds, "These are just a
starting points for us. Other grant goals and objectives include:
coordinating educational sessions and smoking cessation sessions;
promotion of the Illinois Tobacco Quitline; and monitoring the
volume and use of nicotine replacement therapy products among
tenants. We look forward to working with the Housing Authority in
instituting more proactive "Smoke Free" initiates. After all, such
efforts can reduce the risk of heart attacks, stroke, lung cancer
and premature death in adults. And in children, they reduce the
risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), respiratory
infections, asthma, and ear infections." For more information on
the "We Choose Health" grant offered through the Henry and Stark
County Health Departments call the Department at (309) 852-0197 or
visit our website at www.henrystarkhealth.com or find us on
Facebook at Henry and Stark County Health Departments.
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East Peoria Times Courier Extension works on grant 1/2/2013
http://www.eastpeoriatimescourier.com/article/20130102/NEWS/130109976/1001/NEWS
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded more
than $100 million to 48 national, state, and local organizations to
prevent disease and improve health in local communities. Peoria and
Tazewell counties were recipients of one of these Community
Transformation Grants for Small Communities. The local
collaborative group, Central Illinois Wellness Council, was awarded
$2,404,708 for the period covering September 2012 through September
2014. Why are the Community Transformation Grants so important? The
Center for Disease Control has stated that chronic diseases cause
seven out of 10 deaths each year with nearly half of adults having
at least one chronic illness. Three out of four health care dollars
in the U.S. are related to chronic disease and these largely
preventable diseases are more common in low-income neighborhoods.
Some of the key health issues affecting low-income populations are
obesity, nutrition, and physical activity. What role does Extension
have in this initiative? Healthy nutrition and physical activity
are the major themes of Extension’s Expanded Food and Nutrition
Education Program delivered to youth and low-income adults with
young children. Extension teaches nutrition education in most
District 150 schools through in-school and after-school programs.
Extension reaches low-income parents with young children in their
homes or in group settings. Two educators from Unit No. 11,
Margaret Cover and Mekenzie Lewis, are currently serving on the
education committee for the Central Illinois Wellness Council. The
education committee is focusing on two main areas: 1) nutrition
education in the classroom and after school and 2) involving
parents of school-aged children. These two areas mirror the major
areas covered by Extension in its EFNEP programs. Other members of
the committee include Bradley University, the Red Cross, Hult
Education Center, and the Peoria Health Department. By sharing
resources and expertise, this partnership provides more
cost-effective and complete programming for the community. For more
information about the EFNEP Program in the
Fulton-Mason-Peoria-Tazewell Unit, please contact Margaret Cover,
Extension Educator, EFNEP, at [email protected] or 685-3140.
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Evansville Courier & Press Megan Erbacher Foundation grant
to help children, trainees of 4C of Southern Indiana 1/6/2013
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2013/jan/06/4c-grant-will-aid-kids-and-more/
The end of 2012 was highly celebrated at 4C of Southern Indiana
Inc., as it received $465,000 funding from the Welborn Baptist
Foundation. While this is not the largest grant the organization
has received, Jennifer Gronotte, the 4C president and CEO, praised
the foundation for investing in early childhood education. "To see
the importance of early childhood education and, secondly, 4C's
work in this area recognized with an award of this magnitude is
inspiring and uplifting," Gronotte said. Short for Community
Coordinated Child Care, 4C is the official free child care resource
and referral agency for Southwestern Indiana, serving 14 counties.
According to Gronotte, research shows the returns on early
childhood education can range from $4 to $16 for every dollar
spent. The total grant is being divided among 4C's individual
programs and activities: $20,000 to Capacity-Building support,
$25,000 to License Exempt support, $45,000 to Lending Library,
$115,000 to Comprehensive Mission support, $119,000 to Power of
Parenting and $141,000 to Play & Learn. Gronotte said each of
4C's evidence-based programs meet unique needs in the community and
in all serve more than 8,000 young children "helping to ensure that
they enter school healthy and ready to learn." The organization is
also funded through the Indiana FSSA, including Paths to QUALITY.
Since 1969, 4C has taught parents how to recognize and find high
quality early care and education. The services available at 4C are
not limited to families with lower incomes. "For families, 4C is a
one-stop shop for assistance in finding high quality early care and
education and, for those who qualify by income, help with paying
for child care," Gronotte said. For early care and education
providers, 4C is a resource for professional development. The
organization offers face-to-face and web-based training,
complemented with on-site technical assistance. Forty-six percent
of the local early care and education workforce used services from
4C last year. In addition to this grant, Gronotte said 4C partnered
with the Welborn Baptist Foundation and the Southwest Indiana
Healthy Communities Partnership to land a $3 million Community
Transformation Grant funded by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. "4C's role in this grant is to assist 40 local early
care and education providers in improving the quality of nutrition
in the meals they serve and increasing the amount of physical
activity in their programs," Gronotte said. "Participating
providers will receive training, on-site technical assistance and
resources such as kitchen equipment, outdoor play equipment and
curriculum."
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KILJ Radio Theresa Rose Healthy Communities helps make downtown
Mt. Pleasant safer for walkers and bikers
11/29/2012
http://kilj.com/2012/11/news/healthy-communities-helps-make-downtown-mt-pleasant-safer-for-walkers-and-bikers/
Healthy Henry County Communities is pleased to announce that
through collaboration with the
City of Mt. Pleasant they were able to use grant money to
purchase three timed LED pedestrian
crosswalk signals for downtown Mt. Pleasant. The signals were
installed recently along
Washington Street at the intersections of Jefferson Street, Main
Street and Adams Street. These
new timed crosswalk signals will help improve the safety of
those intersections for walkers and
bikers. The installation timing coincides with the busy holiday
season as more residents are
walking downtown to do their holiday shopping.
Healthy Communities used money from a five-year Community
Transformation Grant (CTG)
aimed at increasing the cardiovascular health of all residents.
Improving walkability and bike-
ability throughout Henry County is a major focus of the grant.
Work will continue in the spring
with the improvement of Marion Street from Washington Street to
the Aquatic Center providing
a safe route for kids to travel. New trail signs for East Lake
Park are also in the works.
“Although we started working with Mt. Pleasant we hope to work
with all of the communities in
our county to improve walkability and bike-ability,” explains
Lindsay Remick, CTG
Coordinator. “We will continue to reach out to all communities
over the next four years to
identify projects that fit within our guidelines.”
In addition to improving sidewalks and trails, the CTG also
focuses on worksite wellness;
healthy eating in vending machines, convenience stores and
restaurants; smoke-free multi-unit
housing; chronic disease self-management and increased
participation in preventive screenings.
Restaurants are currently being contacted to offer an assessment
by the Henry County Health
Center Dietitian and incentives to help promote healthier items.
“Our ultimate goal is to put in
place policy and environmental changes that will be sustainable
even after this grant
ends,”Remick states.
Healthy Communities is working closely on this grant with Henry
County Health Center and the
Henry County Extension office, but also with new partners such
as businesses and restaurants.
“Healthy Communities has always been about bringing people
together to achieve great things,”
explains Kelly Carr, Healthy Communities Coordinator. “This
grant builds upon that principle as
we form new partnerships and work together to make Henry County
a healthier place.”
The Community Transformation Grant is made possible with funding
from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. Henry County is one of 26
counties receiving this grant through
the Iowa Department of Public Health. For more information or to
learn how you can be
involved contact Lindsay Remick at 319-385-6595 or
[email protected].
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The Wichita Eagle Kelsey Ryan Greater Wichita YMCA wins 2.4
million federal health grant 10/17/2012
http://www.kansas.com/2012/10/17/2535964/greater-wichita-ymca-wins-24-million.html
The Greater Wichita YMCA, on behalf of the Health and Wellness
Coalition of Wichita, was recently awarded a $2.4 million grant
from the Department of Health and Human Services. The grant was one
of 40 Community Transformation Grants distributed nationwide. In
total, the U.S. federal agency handed out $70 million in grants.
“We’re elated,” said Mim McKenzie, executive director of community
development for the Greater Wichita YMCA. “We hope this creates
more opportunities for us.” In its grant application, the coalition
addressed four areas it will target with funds: nutrition, physical
activity, obesity and tobacco use. McKenzie said the grant money
will go toward several initiatives in town over the next two years,
including:
• Advancing plans for the city’s master bike plan for bike paths
through the city as well as the pedestrian master plan to encourage
physical activity.
• Community health awareness events. • Continuing and expanding
the breastfeeding in the work place initiative with the
Sedgwick County Health Department to continue to provide
equipment for moms. • Creating mini-grants through the coalition
for food pantries and soup kitchens to
apply for money to purchase refrigerators for fresh fruit
storage. Mini-grants will also be available for farmers markets,
which will be able to apply for funds for to buy EBT machines that
also run debit cards to make fresh fruits and vegetables more
accessible for low-income families.
• Working with the Parks and Recreation Department to provide
funding for signage in local parks to indicate where people can and
cannot smoke and with the city housing department to improve
non-smoking area signage in public housing.
• Assessing food systems in town to determine where more fruits
and vegetables might be needed, like in the downtown area or in
schools.
Lavonta Williams, a city council member who is involved in the
coalition, said it will require cooperation and coordination among
a variety of groups to bring the plans to fruition. “This will take
everything we do to the next level in building a healthy
community,” said Williams, who has been involved in the coalition
for several years. The coalition, under the umbrella of the YMCA,
was established in 2004 through a $20,000 grant by the Kansas
Health Foundation. It is made up of more than 80 area health and
service businesses and individuals that focus on promoting physical
activity and good nutrition in the community.
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Bangor Daily News Mario Moretto With $1.3M grant, Healthy Acadia
triples income over 2010 9/27/2012
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/09/27/health/with-1-3m-gift-healthy-acadia-triples-income-over-2010/
BAR HARBOR, Maine — Cha-ching. That’s the sound of a local
nonprofit receiving a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services for a collaborative project aimed at
boosting the health of Hancock and Washington counties. Healthy
Acadia — in partnership with University of New England, Washington
County-One Community and the Passamaquoddy Tribal Council at Indian
Township — will use the grant on a slew of programs and initiatives
aimed at “promoting healthy eating and physical activity, access to
quality preventive health services and social and emotional
wellness,” according to a news release. The grant represents only
about 2 percent of the pot of federal money handed out through the
CDC Community Transformation Grant program this year, but it’s more
than three times Healthy Acadia’s total revenue in 2010, the most
recent year for which tax information is readily available. The
nonprofit will receive half the total sum of the grant this year,
and half next year, according to Executive Director Doug Michael.
Healthy Acadia will work with the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention to allocate money to programs and initiatives throughout
the two-county area with the goal of improving the health of Down
East Mainers, Michael said on Thursday. “We will be working with
partners to clarify where the most strategic investments are, and
we’ll steward those resource to launch impactful projects to make
it easier for people to lead healthier lives,” he said. Michael
said it’s the largest grant the organization has ever received.
“Not only have the partners joined together to leverage resources,
but they’ve also collaborated closely with the communities that
will be impacted by their efforts,” he said. “I believe this
project can make a real difference.” According to the press release
from U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud, who announced the DHHS grant award,
the collaborative partners will:
• Increase the number of community outlets providing access to
healthy, affordable food and increase the use of farm-to-school
production models;
• Work with schools to promote walking and biking to schools and
expand options for physical activity in communities;
• Work with schools to implement coordinated health programs
throughout the region;
• And increase transportation options and grow a network of
volunteer drivers to help patients get to doctor’s
appointments.
DHHS claims the $70 million given out through this particular
grant program will benefit 9.2 million Americans in 40
communities.
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Maine Development Foundation Maine Development Foundation
Awarded $1.6 Million to Launch Healthy Maine Streets
10/2/2012
http://www.mdf.org/publications/Maine-Development-Foundation-Awarded-16-Million-to-Launch-Healthy-Maine-Streets/610/
Augusta, Maine: The Maine Development Foundation, specifically
its Maine Downtown Center, in collaboration with MCD Public Health,
announced today it has been awarded a grant of $1.641 million to
launch Healthy Maine Streets, a program to support health and
wellness in Maine’s small communities. This grant is a part of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Community
Transformation Grants (CTG) to support public health efforts to
reduce chronic diseases, promote healthier lifestyles, reduce
health disparities, and control health care spending in small
communities. Healthy Maine Streets will build on the Maine Downtown
Center’s well-established downtown revitalization framework of Main
Street Maine organizations and Maine Downtown Network programs to
leverage community health improvements in a number of mostly rural
towns, with a combined population of 180,000. Through Healthy Maine
Streets, local Wellness Councils will be established to addresses
disparate health access and outcomes for employees of small
businesses, which are the heart and soul of small town Main
Streets. These downtown organizations are woven into the fabric of
the community, and improvements will be felt by employees, their
families, customers, and the community. Overall, HHS awarded
approximately $70 million in prevention grants to 40 awardees
focused on improving the health of small communities across the
nation. Administered by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), the CTG Program is a comprehensive prevention and
wellness initiative launched in 2011 and funded through the
Affordable Care Act’s Prevention and Public Health Fund. By
focusing on where people live, work, learn, and play, the CTG
program is expected to improve the health of more than four out of
10 U.S. citizens – about 130 million Americans. These new funds
will support areas with fewer than 500,000 people in neighborhoods,
school districts, villages, towns, cities, and countries. Awardees
represent organizations committed to improving health from a
multitude of sectors. The Community Transformation Grant will bring
communities and small businesses together to create a wellness
program in the heart of Maine’s downtowns that is shared by small
businesses and eventually reshapes our communities into more
healthy, vibrant places to work and live. The program addresses the
critical need to improve health and wellness in Maine communities
and the high cost of health care for small businesses. “This new
program will help create healthier, more productive communities and
is a value added service for Main Street Maine and Maine Downtown
Network communities,” stated Roxanne Eflin, Maine Downtown
Center/MDF Senior Program Director. Support from the business
community, school districts, community-based organizations, and
other non-traditional partners is critical to reducing deaths and
health costs due to heart attacks, strokes, cancer, diabetes, and
other serious health problems. Small businesses may be eligible for
Health Insurance Rebates and State of Maine tax credit and to be an
employer of choice improving employee retention and recruitment.
Awardees will conduct activities in one or more areas that
contribute to the overall goals of the CTG
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program and help achieve positive changes in one or more of the
following outcome measures: 1) weight, 2) proper nutrition, 3)
physical activity, 4) tobacco use, and 5) social and emotional
well-being. “MCD Public Health is proud and pleased to be
collaborating with the Maine Development Foundation on the Healthy
Maine Streets project. Like MDF, we have a long history of working
to support communities in Maine. MCDPH brings expertise in
population health and wellness, including innovative leadership, to
this new opportunity for Maine downtowns. MCDPH and MDF share a
heartfelt mission to improve the quality of life in Maine. Through
Healthy Maine Streets, downtown leaders will demonstrate that by
helping themselves and their communities be well, downtowns also do
well,” said Kate Perkins, Director, MCD Public Health. The
Community Transformation Grants are one piece of a broader effort
by the Obama Administration to address the health and well-being of
U.S. communities through initiatives such as the President’s
Childhood Obesity Task Force, the First Lady’s Let’s Move!
Campaign, the National Prevention Strategy, the National Quality
Strategy, and HHS’ Million Hearts ™ initiative. The Prevention and
Public Health Fund, as part of the Affordable Care Act, is
supporting the CTG program and other initiatives designed to expand
and sustain the necessary capacity to prevent chronic diseases,
detect them early, manage conditions, before they become severe,
and provide states and communities the resources they need to
promote healthy living. ### THE HEALTHY MAINE STREETS PARTNER
ORGANIZATIONS MISSION STATEMENTS The Maine Development Foundation
(MDF) drives sustainable, long-term economic growth for Maine. MDF
stimulates new ideas, develops leaders, and provides common ground
for solving problems and advancing issues. The Maine Downtown
Center serves as the state coordinator for the National Main Street
Center. The Center’s mission is to advance preservation-based
economic development in downtowns across Maine. Visit www.mdf.org
for information. With a mission to improve the health and
well-being of people everywhere, MCD Public Health works in
partnership with communities, organizations, and government
agencies to create compassionate and impactful health programs,
provide technical assistance, and foster a community of innovation
and collaboration. Visit www.mcdph.org for information.
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FenceViewer Cyndi Wood Healthy Arcadia lands 1.3M grant
10/8/2012
http://fenceviewer.com/site/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=77305:healthy-acadia-lands-$13m-grant&Itemid=938
ELLSWORTH — A local health coalition is receiving a healthy
boost to its bottom line thanks to a $1.3-million grant. Healthy
Acadia, in partnership with the Passamaquoddy Tribal Council,
Washington County-One Community and the University of New England,
has been awarded a $1.3-million U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Community Transformation Grant. The organizations will use the
two-year grant to improve health throughout Hancock and Washington
counties. “We are honored to have this opportunity to work in
collaboration with our partners to make healthy living more
accessible to all throughout Downeast Maine,” said Doug Michael,
executive director of Healthy Acadia. Grant funding will promote
healthy eating, physical activity, access to preventive health
services and social and emotional wellness — all continuing
priorities for Bar Harbor-based Healthy Acadia. “Our mission is
basically to empower people to build healthy communities across the
Downeast and Acadia regions,” Michael said. Part of the nonprofit’s
work is fulfilling responsibilities as Hancock County’s only
Healthy Maine Partnership. Last spring, in an effort to consolidate
partnerships statewide, the state CDC awarded a single Healthy
Maine Partnership grant in Hancock County. Healthy Acadia received
the award and three other Hancock County partnerships were out of
luck. Healthy Acadia has been working off-island for years, so
becoming Hancock County’s only Healthy Maine Partnership was an
easy adjustment, Michael said. This year, Healthy Acadia became the
lead agency in charge of administering Healthy Maine funds in
Hancock and Washington counties. There is increasingly less money
to go around. “We’re operating with about one-third of the [Healthy
Maine Partnership] funding that we did in the two-county region 12
years ago,” Michael explained. The Fund for a Healthy Maine
supports the Healthy Maine Partnership program. The fund is
sustained by the state’s share of tobacco settlement payments. A
$2.7-million budget cut this year resulted in the elimination of
the coordinated school health component of the program.
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Daily Bulldog Bobby Hanstein Local $220,000 HCC grant for
recreational programs for youths 10/11/2012
http://www.dailybulldog.com/db/features/local-220000-hcc-grant-for-recreational-programs-for-youths/
FARMINGTON - MaineHealth was recently awarded a grant of
$2,425,220 for improving physical activity and eating habits and
decreasing tobacco use in seven rural Maine counties. Locally, a
total of $220,000 over the next two years will go to the Healthy
Community Coal