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Museums and Science Centers Open Their Doors to Health-Related Promotions

July 1, 2004 | Program Result Report

The National Health Museum established the National Public Health Partnership with the goal of expanding the reach of the nation's health promotion and disease prevention efforts.

Spanish-Speaking Women Targeted in Agency Expansion

October 1, 2004 | Program Result Report

Women Helping Women, a non-profit agency providing low-cost support and therapy services to women in central New Jersey, expanded its program to offer additional services and to reach a larger, more ethnically diverse population.

Neighborhood by Neighborhood, Little Rock Combats Substance Abuse

May 1, 2003 | Program Result Report

The Fighting Back project in Little Rock, Ark., worked to strengthen community participation and resolve in combating substance abuse and its effects by strengthening neighborhood services and identity.

Blueprint of Recommendations for Making Communities "Asthma Friendly" for Children

June 1, 2003 | Program Result Report

RAND Health worked with a panel of health experts to develop a set of policy recommendations, with implementation and funding options for each, for improving childhood asthma outcomes nationwide.

Campaign Encourages Jewish College Students and Adults to Put Out Their Cigarettes on Shabbat

August 1, 2003 | Program Result Report

The National Jewish Outreach Program, a New York City organization that supports North American Jews in their faith, conducted an antismoking campaign called the Shabbat Smokeout.

Enlisting Parents, Teachers and Students in Tobacco Control Advocacy

May 1, 2002 | Program Result Report

The National Education Association Health Information Network, Washington, supported a pilot project to increase the number of youth and parent tobacco-control advocates in Connecticut and Maryland.

Nashville College Health of the Public Project Expands Its Adolescent Health Education and Outreach Program

September 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

From 1993 to 1997, Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., established a new curriculum in adolescent health, building on a pre-existing initiative to reduce teen pregnancy.

Chicago Project Delivers Support to Young Mothers-to-Be

April 11, 2008 | Program Result Report

Chicago Health Connection developed and implemented a four-year pilot project that used nonmedical birth assistants known as doulas to help low-income single teen mothers in high-risk Chicago neighborhoods.

Houses of Worship Minister to Congregations' Health Care Needs

August 1, 1999 | Program Result Report

From 1997 to 1998, staff from St. Mary's Manassas, Alabama Redevelopment Team (SMART) helped establish a network of parish nurse programs in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Memphis, Tenn.

So How Did it Go? Sizing Up the Five TB Demonstration Projects

October 1, 1997 | Program Result Report

The University of California, San Francisco, carried out a qualitative evaluation of the Old Disease, New Challenge program to monitor and evaluate five demonstration strategies.

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