August 30, 2010
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Program Result Report
RWJF provided four grants to enable the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices to enlist governors in tackling the childhood obesity epidemic and encourage state innovation in policies and programs.
November 14, 2003
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Program Result Report
From 1994 to 2002, staff at Rhode Island Department of Health created four new school-based health centers (SBHCs), helped secure core funding from the state and worked with state agencies and other decision-makers to create more favorable state policies and stable funding for the centers.
November 14, 2003
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Program Result Report
The State of Maryland Executive Department further developed school-based health centers in the state, established new centers, developed the state's infrastructure to support the centers, and created a statewide organization of school-based health centers.
February 26, 2007
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Program Result Report
Making the Grade was a national program that supported state-local collaborations designed to expand comprehensive school-based health services for children and adolescents.
April 11, 2012
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Program Result Report
The Healthy Students, Healthy Minds project of Padres Unidos is working with Denver school board officials to implement a recess-before-lunch policy in all public schools, a schedule that gets kids to eat better and reduces discipline problems.
April 11, 2012
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Program Result Report
Communities Creating Healthy Environments aims to curb childhood obesity in communities of color by using community organizing for social justice to advocate for policy changes color. Read this report on its progress.
January 28, 2011
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Program Result Report
Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice for Healthy Youth Behavior conducts research on how laws, policies, practices, programs and other environmental influences at the state, community and school levels affect youth behaviors.
November 13, 2009
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Program Result Report
Sen. Lucy Arce Ferrer was one of the early advocates of the work of the Puerto Rico Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking.
July 14, 2009
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Program Result Report
From 1993 to 2004, SmokeLess States: Statewide Tobacco Prevention and Control Initiative supported statewide efforts to reduce tobacco use, particularly among children and youth.
March 23, 2009
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Program Result Report
RWJF staff, in partnership with researchers at the American Medical Association (AMA), designed A Matter of Degree to reduce binge drinking among college students through an environmental approach.
