Physical Health
Community Enhancement Grants
NC Public Health Foundation and Division of Public Health Physical Activity and Nutrition Branch
The project is intended to increase the capacity of community organizations to implement sustainable physical activity and healthy eating opportunities for underserved children and youth in Wake County.
From: NC Public Health Foundation and Division of Public Health Physical Activity and Nutrition Branch
Be Healthy, Be Active
Marbles Kids Museum
The purpose of Be Healthy, Be Active core content initiative is to change attitudes—and thereby, behavior—by exposing families to healthy lifestyle choices through hands-on, interactive play environments and programs.
From: Marbles Kids Museum
Empowering Healthy Food Choices
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
The purpose of Empowering Healthy Food Choices is to build on two existing programs to respond to an increasing demand for healthy foods by creating local sources of fresh fruits and vegetables for underserved communities, and helping them learn to value and utilize these foods.
From: Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice
Advocates for Health in Action
This project focuses on improving the ability for AHA to shape the environment so healthful eating and physical activity are the way of life for everyone living in Wake County.
From: Advocates for Health in Action (AHA)
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:
