September 19, 2008
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The Freedom Foundation of New Jersey Inc., West Orange, N.J., carried out three programs encouraging girls in inner-city Newark, N.J., to abstain from illegal drugs and sexual relations.
August 26, 2008
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RWJF has provided 12 grants totaling $26.8 million to support development of David L. Olds' home-visiting model and its national replication as the Nurse-Family Partnership.
June 22, 2007
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The National Kidney Foundation of Michigan expanded a project to train hair stylists in African-American neighborhoods as lay health promoters to educate their clients about diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney disease.
June 1, 2007
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From 2000 to 2005, staff at the Black Women's Health Imperative created and implemented an online version of a self-help fitness program for African-American women called Walking for Wellness.
February 1, 2007
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Erica G. Phillips-Caesar and a team of researchers conducted focus groups to find out what got in the way of eating healthy foods and increasing physical activity.
January 1, 2004
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The Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition conducted eight focus groups to assess community health workers' knowledge of breastfeeding and lactation management and to learn how they perceived the value of using technology in their work.
August 1, 2003
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From January 2000 through June 2002, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham studied the factors that promote physical activity among rural African-American women in Wilcox County, Ala.
April 1, 2003
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In 2001, Newborn Holistic Ministries trained staff and improved operations at Martha's Place, a residential recovery program for women addicted to drugs.
December 1, 2001
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The Wholistic Health & Healing Association conducted a two-day forum in Sacramento, Calif., in April 2000 on uterine fibroids and African-American women.
April 1, 2000
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Economic Opportunity Family Health Center, Inc. (EOFHC), of Miami, Fla., hired three consultants to assess its comprehensive residential program for crack-addicted mothers and their children. EOFHC has offered its program, which links primary health care with treatment for drug abuse, since 1987.
