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August 23, 2010 | Story
2010 Community Health Leader winner dispatches promotorascommunity volunteers who share health information with othersto educate Latino community about health, wellness and disease prevention.
July 1, 1999 | Program Result
The Multicultural Area Health Education Center was established in 1985 through a US Department of Health and Human Services grant to promote and improve family-oriented primary health care and prevention services in an East Los Angeles community.
July 1, 1999 | Program Result
The Little Havana Activities & Nutrition Center of Dade County implemented a program that teamed older adults with preadolescents for activities designed to promote a general awareness of health issues and to bring youth and seniors closer together.
July 1, 1999 | Program Result
Youth Development, Inc. implemented Proyecto HEAL by conducting youth health education and leadership classes in collaboration with local schools, providing Strengthening Families training to parents, and conducting community health education.
November 8, 2011 | Story
2011 Community Health Leader turns her own diagnosis into a project for the greater good by raising awareness of breast cancer among uninsured women in South Florida.
January 1, 2010 | Book
MicheLee Puppets travel throughout Florida, providing an entertaining—even rollicking—show for the state's schoolchildren. The puppets highlight ways that elementary schoolchildren can eat more nutritious food and be healthier.
July 1, 1999 | Program Result
The Latin American Research and Service Agency, located in Denver, implemented community-based interventions to address sociocultural barriers to health care for Hispanic Americans.
July 1, 1999 | Program Result
Salud Para la Gente conducted a project to: address overall community health status, address diseases/causes of death that had particularly high rates in the community, and provide health education.
January 1, 2004 | Book
In 1998, the Foundation's Injury Free Coalition for Kids initiative began to be replicated in other sites around the country. The author describes the expansion of the program and takes a closer look at San Diego, Miami and Chicago.
October 1, 2001 | Program Result
In 1997, researchers at Medimetrix Group, a consulting firm based in Cleveland, gathered information from focus groups in six cities to help the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) assess the field and obtain a solid base of information on which to develop program options for the estimated 10 to 11 million children who have no health insurance coverage.