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New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids: Communities Making a Difference to Prevent Childhood Obesity
The Foundation's initiative, New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids: Communities Making a Difference to Prevent Childhood Obesity, was designed to support a four-year major initiative to seed community and state partnerships to prevent childhood obesity in New Jersey.This grant will support year 4 goals and activities of the NJ Partnership for Healthy Kids (NJ PHK). The goals include: (1) implementing the communications strategy, (2) implementing state program office strategic plan, (3) launching the partnership website, and (4) tracking policy and environmental change. Activities will include continuing the successful implementation of local partnership strategies, maintaining quarterly State Advisory Council meetings and monthly project director meetings, working with an evaluation consultant to provide evaluation technical assistance to the target cities and finalizing the sustainability plan. Deliverables include: (1) completed NJ PHK website, (2) regularly updated Strategy Implementation charts, (3) an evaluability study and (4) a State of the State Obesity Conference in partnership with Rutgers University and the State Department of Health.
Grant Details
Amount Awarded $544,395.00
Awarded on: 8/21/2012
Time frame: 8/1/2012 - 7/31/2013
Grant Number: 70233
Grantee
New Jersey YMCA State Alliance Inc.
425 Greenwood Avenue
Trenton, NJ, 08609-2101
609-278-9622
Website
William J. Lovett
Project Director
609-278-9622
Email
Darrin Wayne Anderson
Project Director
609-278-9676
Email