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Supporting Families After Welfare Reform: Access to Medicaid, SCHIP and Food Stamps

National Program

Program to help states and large counties solve problems in eligibility processes that make it difficult for low-income families to access and retain Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or Food Stamps.

New Jersey Leaders Get a Lesson in Activity-Friendly Community Design

March 1, 2006 | Program Result Report

New Jersey mayors play a key role in decisions regarding land use planning and design in their communities yet, many lack good information about the connection between community design and public health.

Parsippany, New Jersey, is Healthy, Seriously!

April 1, 2010 | Story

Parsippany residents are discovering where health and community intersect as they come together to achieve health-related goals.

The Health Gap Between Black and White

July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

In 1999, New Jersey's Office of Minority Health convened a summit of state leaders to address the problem of continued disparities in minority health care status and outcomes in New Jersey.

Putting Nurses in Charge

March 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

Between 1996 and 1999, Rutgers University Foundation, New Brunswick, N.J., carried out a project to help define the financial and operational structure necessary for the long-term viability of a nurse-managed primary health care center in Elizabeth, N.J.

Reading from the Same Page

March 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

The National Partnership for Social Enterprise worked with the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services to convene a group for rewriting public health practice standards for New Jersey's local health departments.

Teen Involvement is a Key to Reducing Adolescent Smoking

May 1, 1997 | Program Result Report

The University of Colorado, Denver, evaluated Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco (STAT), a nationwide volunteer effort to reduce underage smoking.

Supporting Families After Welfare Reform: Access to Medicaid, CHIP and Food Stamps

February 5, 2007 | Program Result Report

RWJF designed Supporting Families After Welfare Reform: Access to Medicaid, SCHIP and Food Stamps to remove administrative obstacles that prevent low-income families from securing health and Food Stamp benefits.

Program Promotes the Greening of New Jersey for Bicyclists, Walkers

December 1, 2004 | Program Result Report

The Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions, a nonprofit organization that supports more than 300 environmental commissions in the state, developed and implemented a program to educate New Jersey municipalities about the benefits of biking and walking.

"Newark Fighting Back" Organizers Tackled Substance Abuse, Increased Treatment Rates

May 1, 2003 | Program Result Report

In 1989, the Boys and Girls Club of Newark initiated a project designed to reduce demand for alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in selected neighborhoods in the city of Newark.

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