March 1, 2007
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New Haven Fighting Back worked to establish new community anti-drug coalitions and integrate these initiatives into a comprehensive, community-wide substance abuse prevention, education and treatment system.
March 1, 2007
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Action for Healthy Kids recruited community leaders from poor, urban areas to attend a national conference entitled Healthy Schools Summit 2005.
March 31, 2007
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Program Result
In 2002, the Kapi'olani Health Foundation created the Child At-Risk Evaluation (CARE) program, a pediatric specialty clinic specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of child abuse.
April 1, 2007
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Program Result
From 2000 through 2002, researchers at Social Capital Development Corporation analyzed outcome data from more than 200 school-based drug education/prevention programs.
April 1, 2007
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The National Crime Prevention Council assisted teams from six states as they developed and implemented plans to make prevention the standard approach to reducing crime and substance abuse within their communities.
April 1, 2007
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The Legal Action Center of the City of New York designed, printed and distributed Resources for Recovery: State Policy Options for Increasing Access to Alcohol and Drug Treatment Through Medicaid & TANF.
May 1, 2007
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Program Result
The Fighting Back program was a $87.9 million national program to assist communities of 100,000 to 250,000 people to implement a variety of anti-drug strategies. It ran until the fall of 2003.
May 1, 2007
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Program Result
The California Center for Physical Activity awarded grants to establish Active Aging Community Task Forces, which promoted and provided strength-training, balance and mobility classes to older adults.
May 31, 2007
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Program Result
David Appel, M.D., of Montefiore Medical Center and staff at the Montefiore Medical Center School Health Program site at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, N.Y., established a dental program for students.
June 1, 2007
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Program Result
George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services analyzed whether health insurance-especially Medicaid-could cover preventive health services for children at risk for obesity.