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Study Shows Overwhelming Parent Support for Healthier Schools Survey for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation finds most parents willing to help schools improve food offerings and increase physical activity.	News releases	10/28/2009
Poll Shows Strong Parent Support for Healthier Schools The survey signals the breadth of parents' support for changes to make schools healthier places, and their willingness to help make changes happen.	Stories and articles	10/28/2009
Friends of the Children Founder Wins Purpose Prize Duncan Campbell, founder of Friends of the Children and RWJF grantee, was awarded a 2009 Purpose Prize, which honors social entrepreneurs over 60 who are using their experience and passion to take on society's biggest challenges.	News releases	10/26/2009
The Business Case for TCAB (from A Special Supplement to the American Journal of Nursing on Transforming Care at the Bedside: Paving the Way for Change) Implementing Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led quality initiative which aims to create rapid improvement, resulted in large gains in outcomes and large savings in costs, according to two executives with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los... Published In: American Journal of Nursing (Supplement)	Journal articles	10/16/2009
The Business Case for TCAB This white paper provides a cost-benefit analysis for Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB). TCAB is a program to improve processes and outcomes in hospital medical and surgical units and is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.	White papers	10/16/2009
Free To Grow: Head Start Partnerships to Promote Substance-Free Communities Free to Grow: Head Start Partnerships to Promote Substance-Free Communities tested an innovative approach to two closely related public health problems - substance abuse and child abuse.	Grant Results Reports	10/05/2009
Closing the Schools: Lessons From the 1918-19 U.S. Influenza Pandemic Ninety-one years later, the evidence shows that there are positive and negative ways to do it. Published In: Health Affairs (Web Exclusive)	Journal articles	09/29/2009
New Evidence Strengthens Case for Increasing School-based Physical Activity Kids who are active and fit tend to perform better in the classroom.	Issue and policy briefs, Reports	09/25/2009
Adolescent Obesity: Towards Evidence-Based Policy and Environment Solutions This supplement of the Journal of Adolescent Health presents research documenting trends towards healthier foods and more physical activity in schools. The authors acknowledge that a wide range of factors influence obesity's development, but policy and... Published In: Journal of Adolescent Health (Suppplement)	Journal articles	09/16/2009
Health Professions Partnership Initiative The Health Professions Partnership Initiative was designed to enhance the academic preparation of minority students and nurture their interest in health careers.	Grant Results Reports	09/09/2009

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