May 6, 2013
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Program Result Report
The Covering Kids & Families program was designed to find, enroll and retain eligible children and adults in federal and state health care coverage programs. Statewide and local coalitions in all 50 states and the District of Columbia participated.
November 26, 2012
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Program Result Report
The Health Impact Project is advancing the use of health impact assessments (HIAs), used to determine the potential health effects of a proposed policy or project. Interest in HIAs is growing at the local, state, tribal and federal levels.
July 30, 2012
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Program Result Report
During 2006 to 2007, TV and radio host Tavis Smiley convened town hall meetings in four U.S. cities to raise awareness of childhood obesity. A key organization in each city then worked to spur state and local efforts to address the growing problem.
April 11, 2012
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Program Result Report
The Healthy Students, Healthy Minds project of Padres Unidos is working with Denver school board officials to implement a recess-before-lunch policy in all public schools, a schedule that gets kids to eat better and reduces discipline problems.
March 31, 2011
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Program Result Report
Progress and lessons learned from two programs that seek to advance the impact digital games can have on health.
December 23, 2009
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Program Result Report
The commission sought to influence drug policies and practices, held African-American drug policy summits, worked in communities around the country on drug policy issues and disseminated the commission's policy recommendations.
November 10, 2009
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Program Result Report
In November 2005, the Seattle Indian Health Board convened an Urban Indian Health Commission to study the health status and health care needs of urban Indians.
January 1, 2007
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Program Result Report
Two grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), made in concert with funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Ford Foundation provided partial funding for the creation and operating expenses of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH). A third grant, supported an evaluation of CSH. In all, CSH raised $95.2 million from public and private sources from 1991–1999.
September 1, 2006
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Program Result Report
Rodrick Wallace, PhD, and Deborah Wallace, PhD, conducted research and published a book addressing the social, economic and political decay that underlies the rise of AIDS, tuberculosis, drug abuse and violent crime.
March 1, 2006
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Program Result Report
SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., produced a series of five reports documenting the health and social progress and challenges of the nation's 100 largest cities and their suburbs between 1990 and 2000.
