Physical Health
WE CAN Asthma Education Program
Rex Healthcare Foundation
Improve the ability of children with asthma in the public school system to manage their disease.
From: Rex Hospital Foundation
Purpose: Improve the ability of children with asthma to manage their disease.
How:
Wake to Wellness
(administered by the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Implement programs that help meet the requirements of school wellness policies that support nutrition and fitness improvements in fifteen public elementary schools.
This grant program provides fifteen, three-year $30,000 grants to support new standards for physical activity and improved nutrition in elementary schools in the Wake County system. The Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill evaluated applications for this program and will provide technical assistance and evaluation. Projects were funded at the following schools:
Baucom, Comprehensive Wellness Trail, nutrition education and fitness stations
Wake Children's Hearing Intervention Program*
Center for Acquisition of Spoken Language Through Listening Enrichment (CASTLE)
Address critical shortage of professionals with necessary training to develop spoken language in deaf children.
From: Center for Acquisition of Spoken Language Through Listening Enrichment (CASTLE), a department of the Carolina Children's Communicative Disorders Program (CCCDP) in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery at UNC - Chapel Hill
Purpose: Realize the potential for children with even the most profound hearing loss to use spoken language.
How: Train 20 professionals (15 from Wake County Public Schools and 5 from the Office of Education Services in the NC Department of Health and Human Services) with:
WATCH (Wake Area Telehealth Collaborative Helping Children with Special Needs, formerly Telehealth Network for Young Children with Disabilities) - Phase II
TelAbility
Improve access to specialized services for young children with disabilities and their families by connecting professionals with developmental day care centers, community service agencies, residential care facilities and others through a Web site, listserv and electronic newsletter.
From: TelAbility, provider of comprehensive, coordinated care to children with disabilities through video conferencing and Internet technologies.
WATCH (Wake Area Telehealth Collaborative Helping Children with Special Needs, formerly Telehealth Network for Young Children with Disabilities) - Phase I*
TelAbility
Establish an interdisciplinary telehealth network using Web-based resources and real time videoconferencing to improve the quality of and access to specialized medical, therapy and peer support services for young children with disabilities and their families in Wake County.
What: Wake County telehealth network for young children with disabilities.
From: TelAbility, a community oriented, interdisciplinary program that uses telecommunications to improve the lives of children with disabilities.
Purpose: Establish an interdisciplinary telehealth network using web-based resources and real time videoconferencing to improve the quality of and access to specialized medical, therapy, and peer support services for young children with disabilities and their families in Wake County.
Vision Screening Training Pilot Project*
Prevent Blindness North Carolina
Refine, add and improve current vision screening practices for Medicaid children and Pre-K children in Wake County.
From: Prevent Blindness North Carolina
Purpose: Refine, add and improve current vision screening practices for Medicaid children and Pre-K children in Wake County.
How:
Triangle New School Project*
Triangle New School Foundation
Move from planning to development activities for a day school for children with communication, mobility and health challenges.
From: Center for Psychology and Education, PLLC
Purpose: Move from planning to development activities
How:
- Expand the capacity for senior consultant work.
- Engage the services of communications, resource development, project management and specialists.
- Establish a Foundation Board and leadership to guide development of TNS.
Outcomes:
Teen Prescription Fund - Phase III*
Wake Teen
Ensure that low-income, uninsured and underinsured youth aged 10 to 23 have access to medications and lab screenings ordered by Wake Teen physicians.
From: Wake Teen Medical Services
Purpose: Provide needed medications and diagnostic lab testing to teens in order to decrease health disparities in high risk youth.
How:
Teen Prescription Fund - Phase II*
Wake Teen
Provide needed medications and diagnostic lab testing to teens in order to decrease health disparities in high-risk youth.
From: Wake Teen Medical Services
Purpose: Provide needed medications and diagnostic lab testing to teens in order to decrease health disparities in high risk youth.
How:
Teen Prescription Fund - Phase I*
Wake Teen
Ensure that low-income, uninsured and underinsured youth, age 10-23, have access to medications and lab screenings ordered by Wake Teen physicians.
From: Wake Teen Medical Services
Purpose: Ensure that low-income, uninsured, and underinsured youth, age 10-23, have access to medications and lab screenings ordered by Wake Teen physicians.
How:
- Expand assortment of medications available in Wake Teen in-clinic pharmacy.
- Subsidize cost of lab tests for low income and uninsured patients who need testing to determine best course of treatment.
Outcome:
