Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships
National Program
Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships is an innovative approach to preventing teen dating violence and abuse by teaching 11 to 4 year-olds about healthy relationships.
Behavior Change
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Patients Benefit from Interventions to Change Their Behaviors
August 1, 2002 | Program Result
The Center for the Advancement of Health conducted a study of the availability and integration of health behavior change programs in managed care.
Newark, N.J., Brotherhood Health Initiative Seeks to Engage Troubled Young Minority Males in Health Care System
August 22, 2007 | Program Result
The Brotherhood Health Initiative (BHI) was a program designed to increase engagement with the health care system among young minority males aged 12 to 25 in Newark, N.J.
Caring School Community Program Goes National with Focuses on Community Building to Promote Healthy Behaviors
September 26, 2007 | Program Result
The Developmental Studies Center conducted a trial of an elementary school reform initiative which attempted to build a sense of connectedness to school, and thereby promote healthy behaviors in adolescence.
Toward Preventing Suicide in Las Vegas
January 31, 2008 | Story
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program has given Matt Wray, PhD, the opportunity to pursue research with important clinical and policy implications.
News Media Framing of Childhood Obesity in the United States from 2000 to 2009
July 1, 2011 | Journal Article
An analysis of news coverage of childhood obesity suggests attention to the topic has already waned, and that media framing of the issue and its causes, which can influence public opinion, shifted over time and varied by media type.
Changing Policies and the Physical Environment So Children and Families Can Eat Well and Move More
February 14, 2012 | Story
A profile of Sarah Strunk, MHA, director of Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities.
Acclaimed Documentary Highlights Cure Violence's Success at Stopping Community Violence
July 29, 2011 | Video/Story
The Interrupters follows this RWJF-supported program and its work in Chicago neighborhoods.
Active for Life: Increasing Physical Activity Levels in Adults Age 50 and Older
April 15, 2011 | Story
A profile of the evaluator, Sara Wilcox, PhD.
The United Teen Equality Center in Lowell, Massachusetts
January 1, 2011 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, the United Teen Equality Center in Lowell, Massachusetts offers an approach to stemming gang violence. Their program uses streetworkers, some of whom were former gang members, to stop outbreaks of gang violence and help gang members get an education, locate employment training opportunities, and find jobs.