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Connecting Hospitalized Patients One-on-One with Other Patients Who Have the Same Illness

May 11, 2009 | Program Result Report

From 1994 to 2007, staff at Friends' Health Connection (originally called Long Distance Love), New Brunswick, N.J., created and ran a program that enables hospitalized patients to communicate one-on-one with another patient who has the same illness.

Connecticut Uses RWJF's Family Support Services Program Funding to Expand Parenting Education Agenda

December 7, 2005 | Program Result Report

Family Support Connecticut worked to expand the infrastructure of Connecticut's family support program and fund parent leadership training through grants to communities.

An Advocacy Academy for Southerners Concerned With Preventing Childhood Obesity

May 22, 2013 | Program Result Report

Consultants from Tandeka LLC developed and led a pilot training program that prepares advocates to spearhead public-policy advocacy campaigns, particularly ones that promote childhood obesity prevention policies.

Stopping Teen Dating Violence in New Jersey with Safe Dates

June 20, 2012 | Program Result Report

From 2008 to 2011, eight projects implemented Safe Dates, a dating abuse prevention program, in middle and high schools through New Jersey Health Initiatives, which supports projects that improve the health and health care of state residents.

Telephone Interpretation Services Can Serve Hospitals Well

April 6, 2011 | Program Result Report

As the project manager at the University of Michigan said: "We could just grab the phone when patients came in who spoke languages for which we don't have an interpreter."

New Curriculum for School Nurses Helps Them Deal With Students' Trauma Symptoms After Hurricane Katrina

April 26, 2010 | Program Result Report

Some 304 school health nurses and 199 other school health personnel, social workers and community partners received training using the "Trauma to Triumph" curriculum developed by Louisiana State University School of Nursing.

Integrating Mental Health and Addiction Services for Vulnerable Families

March 29, 2010 | Program Result Report

Investigators at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health found examples of local and regional service-integration efforts that could be replicated in other communities.

Addressing Mental Illness in the Bible Belt

November 18, 2009 | Program Result Report

Tanya Ott, a traditional public radio station journalist, and Connie Kohler, Dr.P.H., a professor who produces radio soap operas for an African-American audience, teamed up to take on the stigma and social cost of mental illness in the Bible Belt state of Alabama.

Television Series Highlights the Plight of Frail Elders

November 18, 2009 | Program Result Report

New Hampshire Public Television (NHPTV) built on the awareness of an audience drawn to a previous NHPTV project, the 2004 broadcast of a program called "The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's," and its related outreach throughout the state.

Fresh Ideas: Improving the Health of Immigrant and Refugee Communities

June 13, 2013 | Program Result Report

Fresh Ideas was a targeted solicitation for proposals that aimed to give immigrants and refugees the tools and support they need to improve and maintain their own health.

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