October 1, 2005
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Program Result
North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, N.C., advanced its tobacco use prevention and control mission by establishing three youth-led tobacco use prevention centers across the state.
March 1, 2004
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Program Result
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a national, non-profit child advocacy organization, conducted an educational campaign to increase policymakers' awareness of the value of publicly funded programs to strengthen youth and fragile families.
October 1, 2004
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Program Result
The Common Cause Education Fund produced and disseminated 12 state reports that document the tobacco industry's campaign contributions and lobbying efforts and the success or failure of tobacco-control efforts at the state level from February 2002 through July 2003.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result
In 2001, the National Commission on Partnerships for Children's Health held a conference of Southeastern state officials and higher education representatives on ways to form regional child-health collaborations.
May 1, 2003
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Program Result
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fighting Back project sought to combat the problem of substance abuse by developing a single, comprehensive system of treatment and prevention that would reduce the demand for alcohol and illegal drugs in the community.
November 14, 2003
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Program Result
The Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Women and Children's Health created model comprehensive school-based health centers and standardized practices, developed a comprehensive financing system and helped expand the centers in the state.
March 1, 2002
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Program Result
The Alpha Center for Health Planning, Inc., in Washington (now called the AcademyHealth), a nonprofit policy institute, offered technical assistance to states and facilities participating in a federal program designed to keep struggling rural hospitals open.
May 31, 2000
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Program Result
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducted a three-state research study to assess state legislators' intentions to support or oppose tobacco-control legislation.
May 1, 1999
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Program Result
From 1992 to 1996, researchers at Mathematica Policy Research evaluated Phase I of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Information for State Health Policy national program and, to inform ongoing implementation, the first two years of Phase II.
May 1, 1999
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Program Result
From 1992 to 1997, North Carolina sought to develop a proactive, cooperative health information system to enhance the state's capacity to meet its health care policy needs.
