Community Health Digest

11/06/09 UAB Awarded $11.5 Millioin to Explore Ways to Test Youth for HIV, Link Them to Care

11/06/09 UAB Awarded $11.5 Million to Explore Ways to Test Youth for HIV, Link Them to Care

UAB News

Wilson and ATN are partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to work within local health departments and community coalitions to ...

10/14/09 Beshear Announces Dental Health Initiative

10/14/09 Beshear announces dental health initiative

Louisville Courier-Journal - Stephenie Steitzer

The goal is to train more dentists to work with children, create community coalitions to better tailor dental health solutions in affected counties and ...

10/2/09 Grocery Unions Join with Community to Build Better Supermarkets

10/2/09 Grocery Unions Join with Community To Build Better Supermarkets

Labor Notes - Tiffany Ten Eyck

UFCW locals in New York and Detroit are building community coalitions to create more and better grocery stores—which they hope, one day, will be union. ...

9/28/09 Wellness Coalition Links Healthy Lifestyles, economic success

9/28/09 Wellness Coalition links healthy lifestyles, economic success

Cumberland Times-News - Tess Hill

CUMBERLAND — Wellness and economic development. Not quite two words you hear used together often, but city Economic Development Coordinator Brenda Smith and ...

9/7/09 Rate of Teen Binge Drinking Cut More Than One Third by Prevention...

9/7/09 Rate Of Teen Binge Drinking Cut More Than One Third By Prevention ...

Science Daily (press release)

"What makes this system different from other prevention efforts is that it provides community coalitions with scientifically based tools with which to make ...

9/2/09 White House Drub Czar Awards $21 Million to Local Community...

9/2/09 White House Drug Czar Awards $21 Million to Local Community ...
Media Newswire (press release) These grants provide community coalitions needed support as they work to prevent and reduce youth substance abuse. (Media-Newswire.com) - ( Washington, ..

8/19/09 US Drug Czar Awards $60 Million to 565 Drug-Free Communities

8/19/09 US Drug Czar Awards $60 Million To 565 Drug-Free Communities ...

Media Newswire (press release)

These grants will assist local community coalitions as they work to prevent and reduce youth substance use. "We fully understand the important role local ...

5/28/09 Statement from Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America on New...

5/28/09 Statement From Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America on New ...

AScribe (press release)

CADCA's mission is to build and strengthen the capacity of community coalitions by providing technical assistance and training, public policy advocacy, ...

3/24/09 N.Ky. Coalition Supports Reducing Obesity Rates

3/24/09 N.Ky. Coalition Supports Reducing Obesity Rates

kypost.com

More than two-thirds of Kentucky adults are overweight or obese, and childhood obesity rates have tripled since 1980. The Partnership for a Fit Kentucky ...

3/10/09 $1.2 Million in Mentoring Grants Available to 16 American Communities

3/10/09 $1.2 Million In Mentoring Grants Available To 16 American Communities

Media Newswire (press release)

To be eligible for a DFC Mentoring grant, interested drug prevention community coalitions must have been in existence for five years; be a current DFC ...

3/08/09 SAFE, in Chesterfield County, VA, Receives National Excellence Award

3/08/09 SAFE receives national Excellence award

Midlothian Exchange

... in National Harbor, Md. CADCA is a nonprofit organization that supports community coalitions in their efforts to create drug-free communities. ...

2/19/09 Community Coalitions Awarded Supplemental Funds to Implement...

2/19/09 Community Coalitions Awarded Supplemental Funds to Implement ...
Emediawire (press release), WA
The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD), in partnership with YMCA of the USA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...

2/18/09 Prevention Coordinators Say Teen Drug Use is Hard to Pinpoint

2/18/09 Prevention coordinators say teen drug use is hard to pinpoint
Vermont Public Radio, VT
(Host) One approach towns are taking to change these patterns is through community coalitions. Among the things those coalitions do are to help kids design ...

2/12/09 Greenville, SC Groups to Target Childhood Obesity

2/12/09 Local groups to target childhood obesity
Greenville News, SC
By Liv Osby • HEALTH WRITER • February 12, 2009 A coalition of local groups hopes to find ways to reduce the childhood obesity rate in Greenville County ...

1/22/09 Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition and Partners Receive Grant for Anti-Smoking Program

1/22/09 BCBS foundation grants $75000 for anti-smoking program
Abilene Recorder Chronicle, KS -
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Tobacco Use Prevention Program provides resources and assistance to community coalitions to develop, ...

1/15/09 Faith-Based Coalitions to Combat Childhood Obesity

1/15/09 Faith-Based Coalitions to Combat Childhood Obesity
PNN, VA
“The immense challenge we face in reversing the trend of childhood obesity is a shared responsibility. All parts of society must be engaged if we are going ..

1/7/09 Anti-drug Coalition Finds Successes, Charts New Battles

1/7/09 Anti-drug coalition finds successes, charts new battles
White Mountain Independent, AZ
Targeting the formation of mini community coalitions across population centers in the county, the coalition fostered foundation of Pinetop-Lakeside Alliance ...

11/30/08 School-Community Coalition Offers Students Mental Health Help

11/30/08 Schools offer students mental health help, too
Sioux City Journal, IA
Cardinal Connections is one of less than 250 school-community coalitions nationwide that are funded by a three-year Safe Schools Healthy Students Initiative ...

11/04/08 Grant Boosts Programming to Curb Underage Drinking

11/04/08 Grant boosts programming to curb underage drinking
UNR NevadaNews, NV - 20 hours ago
“This [grant] will help us to be more specific in implementing strategies and really focusing on campus-based interventions that address underage drinking. ...

10/27/08 Pee Dee Healthy People Coalition Receives $8000 Donation

10/27/08 Pee Dee Healthy People Coalition receives $8000 donation
South Carolina Now, South Carolina
The SC Tobacco Collaborative is a statewide group consisting of leading health organizations, community coalitions and businesses committed to preventing ...