Physical Health
Implementing a Child Maltreatment Prevention Surveillance System
Implementing a Child Maltreatment Prevention Surveillance System
NC DHHS, DPH, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch
From: NC DHHS, DPH, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch
Community Assessment and Plan for Injury Prevention: Child Trafficking
The Salvation Army of Wake County
Assess all aspects of what is happening in our community and create a plan of action for improved policies and environments to prevent injuries from human trafficking within Wake County’s youth population.
From: The Salvation Army of Wake County
Preventing Child Pedestrian Injuries and Fatalities in Wake County
UNC Highway Safety Research Center
This project will concentrate training, capacity-building, and technical assistance in underserved areas within Wake County and work with a range of partners to target and address child pedestrian crashes and injuries.
From: UNC Highway Safety Research Center
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 is to build on two existing programs to respond to an increasing demand for healthy foods by improving access to 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:
