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May 11, 2009 | Program Result Report
Researchers sought to determine what role electronic technologies can play in preventing and reducing childhood obesity, especially in low-income and culturally diverse communities.
October 4, 2011 | Program Result Report
The Institute of Play created Being Me, a social networking site, for students at the Quest to Learn public school in New York, to help them actively understand and participate in creating their own health and wellness.
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study shows the importance of smoking cessation, but also demonstrates the importance of all three parts—quit attempts, increased treatment use and increased treatment effectiveness—play in reducing smoking prevalence.
February 5, 2013 | Program Result Report
Child First is a home-based early childhood intervention that works with the most vulnerable very young children and their families to reduce serious emotional disturbance, developmental and learning problems, and abuse and neglect.
November 16, 2012 | Program Result Report
For two decades Join Together served as a national resource center for local substance abuse initiatives, and promoted policies that enhance prevention and treatment. The Partnership at Drugfree.org is now the portal for these resources.
February 17, 2012 | Program Result Report
In Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities, partnerships in 49 communities nationwide are changing local policies and revamping the physical environment to foster healthy living and prevent childhood obesity.
February 14, 2012 | Story
A profile of Sarah Strunk, MHA, director of Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities.
November 13, 2011 | Story
RWJF's Senior Scientist Instrumental in Development of the Childhood Obesity Modeling Network.
October 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Higher optimism was associated with a lower incidence of stroke in a nationally representative study of people over age 50.
June 27, 2011 | Program Result Report
Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette developed a business plan for expanding its Online Health Center to other states. It allows women in Oregon and Washington to access contraceptive services via the Internet.