New Jersey Girl Scouts Create Active Living Patch

Creating an active living badge for Girl Scouts

From 2003 to 2005, the Girl Scouts of Delaware-Raritan created an Active Living patch to promote the importance of active living.

A total of 1,497 Girl Scouts earned an Active Living patch; 5,577 other Girl Scouts participated in Active Living educational and physical activity programs.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) provided $50,000 to support this solicited project.

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The reconvened Commission to Build a Healthier America will provide new guidance in two key areas: early childhood and healthy communities.

The strange pull of this series is its humanity, not its horrors.

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Team members, grantees, and guests discuss breakthrough ideas that will allow us to move toward solving challenges in health care.

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While the need to address disparities in care is well known, few strategies for reducing disparities have been studied systematically.

The RWJF DataHub tracks state-level data, and allows visitors to customize and visualize facts and figures.