May 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
Audits and Surveys Worldwide (ASW), a New York-based international marketing research firm, measured public attitudes and perceptions on a series of health issues in 1997.
May 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
The University of Colorado, Boulder, carried out a study of risk and protective factors that are associated with adolescents' involvement in cigarette smoking and that influence initiation of cigarette smoking in adolescence.
May 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
Two program contracts from RWJF helped the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets to mount an educational and media compaign aimed a reducing smoking among youth.
April 30, 2000
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Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1998, staff at the Volunteers in Medicine Institute developed technical assistance materials for volunteers interested in creating free clinics.
April 30, 2000
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Program Result Report
During 1998 and 1999, staff with America's Promise - The Alliance for Youth developed and implemented an action plan for the Healthy Start Task Force.
April 30, 2000
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Program Result Report
The Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York, sponsored a 1998 conference "Teen Leadership Institute on Drug Issues."
April 1, 2000
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Annual Report
The Challenge of Substance Abuse: Ten Years of Grantmaking.
April 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1997, researchers at the Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Neb., developed an interactive multimedia video program designed to assist low-income pregnant and postpartum smoking women to quit smoking.
April 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
A project team at Children's Hospital Corporation in Boston determined how to organize, deliver, and finance services for technology-dependent children who have made the transition from hospital to the public schools. These are children who are on long-term oxygen therapy, ventilatory assistance, intravenous feedings, and other types of highly technical care. Then they replicated the project.
April 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
The Lehigh Valley Hospital worked to strengthen efforts between two local coalitions: the Coalition for a Smoke-Free Valley, which focused on reducing adult and youth tobacco use, and the ALERT Partnership, which focused on illegal drug and alcohol issues.