2012 Healthy Kids, Healthy Families Programs Partner Abrazos Family Support Services Bernalillo, NM

Program Title Healthy Kids to Healthy Adults Program

Program Summary A physical activity, nutrition and health education program for young children with developmental delays and disabilities that instills the healthy behaviors of regular exercise and sound nutrition.

http://www.abrazosnm.org

ACTIVE Life, Inc. Austin, TX

IT'S TIME TEXAS

IT'S TIME TEXAS is a first-of-its-kind effort to rapidly improve the health of millions of Texans by organizing a grassroots health movement in communities across the state.

Program Support

After Schools Matters provides Chicago public high school teens opportunities to explore and develop their talents, while gaining critical skills for work, college and beyond.

http://www.activelifehq.org

After School Matters Chicago, IL http://www.afterschoolmatters.org/index.php

Alzheimer's Association Tulsa, OK

Memory Gala Premier Presenting Sponsorship

The Alzheimer's Association works to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.

American Diabetes Association's Approach to Health and Wellness (Management-Diabetes) in multiple Independent School Districts in Texas.

The objective of the American Diabetes Association's Approach to Health and Wellness Program is to increase physical activity of youth, and provide nutrition and health education (e.g. diabetes prevention and management) to youth and parents in multiple Independent School Districts (ISD) in Texas.

Sweetheart's Leadership Program

The American Heart Association's Sweethearts Leadership Program provides an interactive environment for high school junior girls to gain an understanding of heart healthy nutrition and physical activity while while also taking an active role in heart healthy awareness initiatives and volunteer opportunities in the community. The program is free to participants, and is offered by the American Heart Associations with support by our community partners.

My Heart My Life

The grant will provide 4th - 6th graders with healthy drink and eating choices along with the importance

http://www.alzokar.org

American Diabetes Association Alexandria, VA http://www.diabetes.org

American Heart Association Albuquerque, NM http://www.heart.org/albuquerque

American Heart Association Inc

Corpus Christi, TX

of physical activity.

http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Affiliate/Corpus Christi/Texas/Home_UCM_SWA005_AffiliatePage. jsp

American Lung Association of Illinois Springfield, IL

Enhancing Care for Children with Asthma in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas

http://www.lungil.org

NM Community Foundation Santa Fe, NM

The partnership will span three years and engage 60 health centers that serve high-risk populations with the goal of improving pediatric asthma care to an estimated 480,000 children. The program aims to directly impact children with asthma and their caregivers, community leaders and educators, resulting in improved long-term care outcomes.

It's Up To Me - Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in the Albuquerque African American Community

It's Up To Me is a lifestyle behavior change program offered to Africans Americans in Albuquerque, New Mexico who are at risk for or living hypertension, diabetes and obesity. The program is designed to eliminate health disparities and improve the overall health of the African American community.

http://www.asianhealth.org

Community Health Workers: Asset Building for Asian Immigrant & Refugee Communities

This demonstration project aims to develop and evaluate an effective program to train Asian community health workers (CHWs) to become members of the diabetes health care team and implement diabetes self-management practices (DSMP) in underserved Asian immigrant and refugee communities in the Chicago metropolitan area.

Assistance Dogs Of The West Santa Fe, NM

Training Service Dogs for Clients with Disabilities

Grant support is for Assistance Dogs of the West Service Dog Training or clients with Disabilities and Assistance Dog Student Trainer programs. Funds will be used to purchase, raise and train assistance dogs, place them with clients with disabilities, and support our Student Training Program in schools and other facilities.

Healthy Children and Families Initiative

The Healthy Children and Families Initiative implement programming within a culturally-competent, age-appropriate context that incorporates health and nutrition education, hands-on learning for children, opportunities for regular physical activity, life skills, and access to health and wellness resources such as counseling, health screening and preventative, and intervention-based services.

AVANCE Healthy Families, Healthy Communities

The AVANCE Healthy Families, Healthy Communities Project will create healthy families (mentally, physically, and emotionally) throughout the El Paso community through the utilization of the AVANCE Parent-Child Education Program. More than 80% of parents will increase their knowledge of healthy

http://www.nmcf.org

Asian Health Coalition of Illinois Chicago, IL

http://www.assistancedogsofthewest.org

Association House of Chicago Chicago, IL http://www.associationhouse.org/

AVANCE Inc El Paso, TX http://www.avance-elpaso.org

living after successful completion of the program and over 85% of children will show developmental gains creating a healthier well-being. AVANCE, Inc. Las Cruces, NM http://www.avance.org

Bexar County Community Health Collaborative San Antonio, TX

Niños Sanos - Futuros Brillantes (Healthy Children - Bright Futures)

Project Measure Up: Fitness, Nutrition, Health and Wellness for families and Children

Doña Ana County has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the country (greater than twice the national rate) and pregnant teens are more likely to receive late or no prenatal care. AVANCE-New Mexico targets the hardest-to-reach participants, in particular teen parents and those living in the sub-standard living conditions of the colonias, to ensure healthy birth outcomes and to provide a strong support system to vulnerable families throughout Doña Ana County. The Health Collaborative supports Free Family Fitness as a youth and family obesity intervention strategy under Project Measure Up.

http://www.healthcollaborative.net

Bexar County Family Justice Center Foundation San Antonio, TX

Relate Right SA

http://www.bcfjc.org

Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Illinois Chicago, IL

Davis Health and Wellness Center of Brighton Park

http://www.uicni.org

Boys & Girls Club Of Danville, Illinois Danville, IL

We are seeking grant funding that will continue and expand of our in-school youth outreach, prevention and education program teaching about healthy relationships. Our program prevents and addresses youth relationship violence through education (presentations), interactive activities (art contests), and counseling for those who have been involved in violence. The Neighborhoods Initiative and Brighton Park Neighborhood Council are seeking a grant to support a community navigator position for the Davis Health and Wellness Center. The community navigator will assist medically needy, Latino families in signing up for health and social service programs and registering for health care at a new school based federally qualified health center that will service 3 public schools.

PowerFull

To combat childhood obesity and nutritional deficiencies by teaching children that healthy food can be tasty by providing them with quality meals and snacks.

Community Garden

After a successful garden project last year the Boys & Girls Club wants to expand and offer to the community an opportunity to have the benefit of fresh produce. Additionally, they will provide nutrition classes to the families of our kids to encourage them to not only eat healthy but to embrace and active lifestyle.

http://www.bgcdnv.org/

Burkburnett Boys & Girls Club Burkburnett, TX http://www.burkburnettbgc.org

CAC Collin County Plano, TX

Child Abuse Intervention and Prevention Program

The Healthy Kids, Healthy Families Grant will provide general operating support for the Child Abuse Intervention Program 2013 of CACCC.

Dallas/Fort Worth ISD Flu Clinics - Fall 2012

Texas' Care Van Program provides access to immunizations for uninsured and medically underserved and medically underserved Texas children, and provides health, nutrition, and exercise education, as well as other health-related services. 5,500 children will be impacted in the in Dallas/Fort Worth area through this partnership.

http://www.caccollincounty.org

Caring for Children Foundation of Texas, Inc. Dallas, TX http://www.carevan.org

Caring for Children Foundation of Texas, Inc. Dallas, TX

Don't Wait to Vaccinate!

http://www.carevan.org

Caring for Children Foundation of Texas, Inc. Dallas, TX

El Paso School-Based Influenza Project

Texas' Care Van Program provides access to immunizations for uninsured and medically underserved and medically underserved Texas children, and provides health, nutrition, and exercise education, as well as other health-related services. 9,000 children will be provided an influenza vaccine through this partnership.

San Angelo School-Based Influenza Project 2012

Texas' Care Van Program provides access to immunizations for uninsured and medically underserved and medically underserved Texas children, and provides health, nutrition, and exercise education, as well as other health-related services. 750 children will be provided an influenza vaccine.

Greater Austin School-Based Influenza Project

Texas' Care Van Program provides access to immunizations for uninsured and medically underserved and medically underserved Texas children, and provides health, nutrition, and exercise education, as well as other health-related services. 4,000 children in the Greater Austin area will be provided immunizations through this partnership.

Greater Houston School-Based Influenza Project 2012

Texas' Care Van Program provides access to immunizations for uninsured and medically underserved and medically underserved Texas children, and provides health, nutrition, and exercise education, as well as other health-related services. 6,000 children in the Greater Houston area will be provided immunizations through this partnership.

http://www.carevan.org

Caring for Children Foundation of Texas, Inc. Dallas, TX

Texas' Care Van Program provides access to immunizations for uninsured and medically underserved and medically underserved Texas children, and provides health, nutrition, and exercise education, as well as other health-related services. Meningococcal vaccines will be provided to 300 teens through this partnership.

http://www.carevan.org

Caring for Children Foundation of Texas, Inc. Dallas, TX http://www.carevan.org

Caring for Children Foundation of Texas, Inc. Dallas, TX http://www.carevan.org

Catholic Charities Gallup Inc Gallup, NM

Healthy Foods and Wellness Resources for Homeless and Impoverished Families

The Healthy Kids, Healthy Families initiative will assist homeless and impoverished families, with children under the age of 18, have access to healthy foods, wellness education and wellness providers.

Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc Oklahoma Cityhood

Project POWER: Fitness

This grant will support Project POWER: Fitness, a program designed to increase the health and wellness of American Indians living in central Oklahoma. Although targeted to children, the program includes programming for the entire family.

"You Are What You Read," the Chicago Public Library's 2012 Family Summer Reading Program

You Are What You Read will combine children's reading with physical activity, learning about healthy eating and other healthy living practices with program partners the City of Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Park District, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Hospital, Comer Children's Hospital, LaRabida Children's Hospital and the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Hospital, LaRabida Children's Hospital and the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC).

Chicago Runners

Chicago Run requests funding to support 9 school sites during the second half of the 2012-2013 school year, serving approximately 3,312 students, in various under-served communities across Chicago, including Austin, Englewood, Auburn Gresham, Humboldt Park, and North & South Lawndale. The Chicago Run program stimulates school children of all fitness levels to run or walk for a minimum of 15 minutes a day, three to five times a week, during the school day.

http://www.okcic.com

Chicago Public Library Foundation Chicago, IL http://www.cplfoundation.org

Chicago Run Chicago, IL http://www.chicagorun.org

Childrens Advocacy Centers Of Texas Inc Austin, TX http://www.cactx.org

Christus Foundation For Healthcare Houston, TX

Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Trauma-Informed Care at Texas Children's Advocacy Centers

School-based Clinic Program

The School Based Clinics program enables schoolchildren to receive the health services they need, when they need them, by eliminating obstacles such as transportation, scheduling, and economics. By providing free healthcare where children spend most of their time, the School Based Clinics reduce health-related absences and help students stay in the classroom healthy and ready to learn.

Healthy Chicago Community

Healthy Chicago identifies 12 public health priority areas and outlines over 120 strategies focused on

http://www.CHRISTUSFoundation.org

City of Chicago

Through the Healthy Kids, Healthy Families initiative, this program will help us to deliver evidencedbased, trauma-informed intervention and therapy to child abuse victims seeking services at children's advocacy centers in Texas, and to support a strong mental health infrastructure for CAC clinicians to ultimately increase capacity for services to children seeking our help. We propose to do this through implementation of a TF-CBT Learning Community and an online tracking tool.

Chicago, IL

Outreach Project

http://www.cityofchicago.org/health

Community Health Development Inc Uvalde, TX

Project Getting Active, Nourished, And Strong! (GANAS!)

Project GANAS!, is a comprehensive, culturally based, clinically driven program designed to promote physical activity, nutrition education, and routine medical care for uninsured, financially impoverished kids and families suffering from overweight/obesity. Project GANAS! participants demonstrate improved clinical outcomes in the following areas: BMI; HbA1c; blood pressure; cholesterol; and triglycerides.

CommunityHealth: Leading the way in care for the uninsured

Critical operating support helps advance our capacity and innovative programming aimed at providing providing high-quality health care at no cost to Illinois' uninsured.

CLNkids Nutrition & Wellness Program

Partnering with the Healthy Kids, Healthy Families imitative enhances our goals for good nutrition, health and well-being for our clients--homeless children and their families, among the most at-risk in our population.

http://www.chdi4health.org

CommunityHealth Chicago, IL

changing policy, systems, and environments in Chicago to improve the health of its residents. To accomplish the goals, CDPH will be partnering with educational and philanthropic institutions, faith communities, the business community, neighborhoods, families and individuals.

http://www.communityhealth.org

Cuidando Los Ninos Inc Albuquerque, NM http://www.clnkids.org

Cyberways And Waterways Austin, TX www.greenribbonschools.org

Dallas Black Dance Theatre Dallas, TX http://www.dbdt.com

Dia De La Mujer Latina Inc Manvel, TX http://www.diadelamujerlatina.org

Kids Getting Smart About Health: Green Ribbon Schools and Healthivores

Healthivores will help establish a "culture of wellness" within schools, making it "cool" to be healthy; by engaging kids in meaningful activities, which stimulate them to "think" and then support "actions" leading to an ongoing healthy lifestyle.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre's 22nd Annual Summer Youth Enrichment & Debbie Allen Summer Institute

The Healthy Kids, Healthy Families initiative supports DBDT's 22nd Annual Summer Youth Enrichment Program in Dallas & San Antonio and to enhance the Dallas program through a partnership with the Debbie Allen Summer Institute. Grant funds support both the Dallas & Debbie Allen program component and also the San Antonio program.

Teen Promotores: Teen Community Emergency Response Trainers

All children should be able to grow up in a safe environment with freedom to learn, grow and develop, regardless of their ethnic background. To address the specific barriers of communication, information and mistrust, hindering many Latinos/Hispanic from access to safety and health programs, DML will extend their successful Teen Promotores Program to include youth disaster preparedness training with a focus on environmental hazards in Houston, McAllen, El Paso, Dallas/Ft Worth and Corpus Christi.

DuPage Education Foundation Wheaton, IL

FORWARD Action Network

http://www.forwarddupage.org

DuPage Health Coalition Carol Stream, IL

Community-Based Coordinated Care

The DuPage Health Coalition works to sustain and refine a community-based care coordination system in DuPage County specifically targeted to low-income persons, with particular reference to the persons enrolled in the Access DuPage program.

Expanding Disease Prevention and Management to Low income, Uninsured Families

This program consists of a diabetes and childhood obesity outreach effort within eight Texas counties that will direct resources to underserved populations that are subject to preventable and debilitating diseases, putting into the community members' hands the knowledge and tools to take charge of their their health and to create systemic change in their community. The overarching goal of the program is to reduce the burden of diabetes and childhood obesity in the target communities.

Semillas de Salud (Seeds of Health) Initiative

The Semillas de Salud Initiative is designed to inspire Northern New Mexico teenagers to pursue careers in health care in order to aid the current state of health care professional shortages and creates effective bridges between the people of Northern New Mexico and the health care systems they must access.

http://accessdupage.org

East Texas Access Network Jasper, TX http://www.ethanresources.org

El Centro Family Health Espanola, NM http://www.ecfh.org

Explore Austin Austin, TX

Explore Austin 2012-13 Program

The Explore Austin program funds life-changing outdoor adventures and regular, sustained physical activities for underserved youth. About 150 youth will be impacted by this grant, which will equip middle and high school youth with the skills, experiences and habits they need to become physically fit and mentally prepared community leaders.

Families Empowered 2012 City-wide Education and Health Expo

The Healthy Kids, Healthy Families partnership will provide over 8,000 of Houston's needy families with health and educational support including immunizations, obesity screenings, and parent training on health and education. Parents are also supported in their attempts to find the best school for their children and learn skills needed to engage schools for improved instruction.

http://www.exploreaustin.org

Families Empowered Houston, TX http://www.familiesempowered.org

Family Abuse Center Waco, TX http://www.familyabusecenter.org

Through the FORWARD Action Network, FORWARD will accelerate best practices among providers and improve clinical and community linkages and referral sources for the prevention and treatment of obesity in children aged 2-19, especially for the lower socioeconomic population.

General Operating Support

The Healthy Kids, Healthy Families initiative will provide general operating support for comprehensive domestic violence services for adult victims and their children in 7 Central Texas counties.

Family Focus Chicago, IL

Healthy Hearts and Families

http://www.family-focus.org

Family Matters, Inc. Chicago, IL

FEEL (Food, Exercise and Education to Live) Fit

FEEL (Food and Exercise to Eat and Live) Fit assists youth (and their parents who attend regular parent meetings) in adopting attitudes and behaviors that foster a lifetime of improved health and wellness, particularly regarding nutritious eating and enjoyable physical activity. Working as "health activists," youth leaders within the program are supported in their efforts to implement youth-led activities and advocacy efforts internally and in the larger community to deepen and expand the program impact.

Program Support

Family Promise of Odessa works to enable homeless families with children to achieve lasting self-sufficiency by providing temporary shelter, meals and access to existing community social services.

Pilot Project: Care Coordination Facilitation for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs in New Mexico

This grant will facilitate care coordination for families and health care providers of children with special health care needs and/or disabilities. It will serve as a pilot program that can be scaled for other areas within New Mexico, as well as within Blue Cross Blue Shield New Mexico's area of affiliation, including Texas, Oklahoma, and Illinois.

http://www.familymatterschicago.org

Family Promise of Odessa Odessa, TX

The Healthy Kids, Healthy Families Initiative supports the Healthy Hearts and Families program. The goal of the program is to decrease the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in at-risk individuals by providing health and nutrition education and fitness opportunities in directly in communities and schools where they are needed.

http://www.forministry.com

Family Voices, Inc. Albuquerque, NM http://www.familyvoices.org

Gateway to Care Houston, TX

Navigating through High Risk Pregnancy to Healthy Babies.

High Risk pregnancies are a major long term health issue. CHWs involvement reduce the risks and improve overall lifetime health.

http://www.gatewaytocare.org

Harmony Home Childrens Advocacy Center Inc Odessa, TX

Direct Services for Abused Children & Non Offending Caregivers

Healthy Kids, Healthy Families support will help in the area of human services for child abuse victim services. Harmony Home offers professional forensic interviewing as well as coordination of various

Starting Strong for Community Health: Preparing Providers for Health Reform

Training and technical assistance to ensure community based medical and social service providers in Cook and Collar Counties have the knowledge and technical support they need to serve individuals with significant health needs during health care reform.

http://harmonyhomecac.org

Health & Disability Advocates Chicago, IL http://www.hdadvocates.org

victim services with other community agencies and free therapy services to child victims, their siblings and non-offending caregivers.

Health & Disability Advocates Chicago, IL

Chicago Medical Legal Partnership for Children

http://www.hdadvocates.org

Heartland Health Outreach Inc Chicago, IL

Together4Health

The Healthy Kids, Healthy Families initiative will support actuarial consultation that will support and inform the care model to be developed and implemented by Together4Health. Together4Health is a partnership of service providers, hospitals, and other health care organizations and companies that have joined together to create a cost-efficient, sustainable coordinated care entity through which the most vulnerable populations--those who receive Medicaid and live with multiple chronic health conditions--can have all their health care needs met.

Mend in Chicago

To prevent and reduce obesity among low income families in Chicago, the ILAACP in partnership with a diverse cross section of community-based delivery partners are building a coordinated care pathway for families to access the MEND 7-13 program. The goal is to deliver programs at the scope and scale needed to make a meaningful difference.

Improving Patient Access and Health Outcomes in Illinois Free and Charitable Clinics

The Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics seeks $100,000 to improve access to health services for low income uninsured adults, and to improve the health status of adults with diabetes and/or hypertension. The project includes implementation of electronic health records and the creation of new systems to continuously improve patient access and health outcomes in free and clinics across IL.

http://www.heartlandalliance.org

Illinois African American Coalition for Prevention Chicago, IL http://www.ilaacp.org

Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics St. Charles, IL http://illinoisfreeclinics.org

Illinois Coalition For Immigrant And Refugee Rights Chicago, IL

Program support to reduce health disparities and increase access to health care through individual assistance, training and advocacy to help children with significant health needs access a full range of social, developmental, medical services and supports, and remove systemic barriers for all vulnerable children.

Immigrant Healthcare Access Initiative

The Immigrant Healthcare Access Initiative (IHAI) seeks to improve the health of immigrant families. Working with community based organizations, IHAI increases access to health information and healthcare for uninsured or underinsured low-income limited English proficient families in Illinois.

http://www.icirr.org

Illinois Maternal & Child Health Coalition Chicago, IL http://www.ilmaternal.org

Health Care Reform Education and Implementation

The Health Reform Implementation and Education initiative helps communities across Illinois understand the impact of the Affordable Care Act on their lives and provides informational critical for accessing new and improved health care coverage opportunities.

Illinois Maternal & Child Health Coalition Chicago, IL

The Campaign to Save Our Mothers and Babies

http://www.ilmaternal.org

Institute for Latino Progress Chicago, IL

Carreras En Salud Expansion

http://www.idpl.org

Kazoo! Washington, DC

2012 Playground Builds

The Healthy Kids, Healthy Families Initiative to supports Keep Fit! Kids Getting Healthy Program, inspiring children to set and achieve physical fitness and nutrition goals, and empower students to make good choices in the management of their health.

MOVE to HKHF: Chronic Disease and Management

Through the strategic usage of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) health care delivery model LCHC is working towards improving health outcomes and reducing health disparities for low-income patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and asthma. This marks a shift away from a reactive, acute-illness approach to primary care to a system in which informed, proactive patients are involved in their own health and the health of their families.

Early Childhood Development Program

Through HKHF funding, Legacy will add a staff member who will evaluate, monitor, and treat the nearly 50% of our patients under three whose speech has been delayed as a result low socioeconomic status and the low education level of their parents. This Early Childhood Development Specialist will observe and document our patients' activities through age eight, and work closely with parents to ensure the

http://www.lawndale.org

Legacy Community Health Services Inc Houston, TX http://www.legacycommunityhealth.org

KaBOOM! partners with HKHF to help increase physical activity, build community playgrounds, and

KEEP Fit! Kids Getting Healthy

http://www.kids-excel.org

Lawndale Christian Health Center Chicago, IL

Through the Health Kids, Healthy Families initiative, Instituto del Progreso Latino will expand the Carreras en Salud workforce training program into the Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy. This expansion will help to create a new generation of bilingual, compassionate healthcare professionals who will help to create a new generation of bilingual, compassionate healthcare professionals who will help increase accessibility to quality healthcare for vulnerable populations in order to promote health and wellness and prevent and manage illnesses and other medical conditions.

spread the word about the importance of play. In 2012, we built eleven playgrounds across Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas and will impact an estimated 11,772 children annually.

http://www.kaboom.org

Kids Excel El Paso El Paso, TX

The Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition seeks to engage women from underserved populations in the health care system and arm them with the tools and information necessary to take charge of their care--this will improve birth outcomes and reduce rates of infant and maternal mortality across the state This will achieved by expanding the successful Campaign to Save our Mothers and Babies achieved by expanding the successful Campaign to Save our Mothers and Babies project and promoting the maternity care model.

individualized treatment plans created for each are implemented. LIFE Senior Services Tulsa, OK

Puttin' on the Dog with LIFE Senior Services

Healthy Kids, Healthy Families funding will enable LIFE to provide programs and services to more than 25,000 seniors, adults with disabilities, and their families in 2013.

Dallas C.A.R.E. Clinic Communities Are Responding Everyday

With the support of the Healthy Kids, Healthy Families initiative, the Lone Star Association of Charitable

First Born Program

The First Born Program supports the First Born Conference, Promoting Confident and Joyful Parenting. FBP is a home visitation program developed in New Mexico and provides first-time parents presence, support and education to encourage the development of happy, healthy babies, families and communities.

http://www.LIFEseniorservices.org

Lone Star Association Of Charitable Clinics Inc. Austin, TX

Clinics will continue with their on-site medical treatment/procedures and referrals to local medical homes.

http://www.tx-lsacc.org

Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation Espanola, NM http://www.lanlfoundation.org

Marathon Kids, Inc. Austin, TX

Marathon Kids in a Box

http://www.MarathonKids.org

Marathon Kids, Inc. Austin, TX

Rio Grande Valley Marathon Kids

Marathon Kids offers a free, evidence-based program that encourages elementary school children and their families to run/walk 26.2 miles incrementally over a six-month period, while tracking their progress. They are also challenged to eat "5-A-Day" fruits and vegetables to fuel their exercise. Funding will assist with the continuation of the expansion of our Rio Grande Valley Marathon Kids.

MEND in Texas

The MEND Foundation, in partnership with YMCA and Parks and Recreation facilities in Waco, Temple, Dallas and Houston, Texas supports a project that is creating a coordinated care pathway for low-income children and their parent(s) and/or caregiver(s) to access an intensive obesity prevention and child weight management program called the MEND 7-13 program. Participants will reduce weight, improve nutrition and increase physical activity and self-esteem.

Save Our Babies

MTUL supports Save Our Babies, an infant mortality prevention program. Save Our Babies provides case

http://www.MarathonKids.org

MEND Foundation Forest Hills, NY http://www.mendfoundation.org

Metropolitan Tulsa Urban League Inc

The Marathon Kids In-a-Box (MKIB) program will serve five public school communities in Texas. The program will for the first time enable children in mid-sized Texas cities to participate in the free, incremental evidence-based running/walking, gardening and nutrition program designed to provide a resonating, elegantly simple vehicle for K-5th graders and their families to gain fitness and health.

Tulsa, OK

management, health and child development education, and emergency assistance with baby items to families with infants under three years old.

http://www.mtul.org

National Council on Family Violence, Inc./Loveisrespect.org Austin, TX

Loveisrespect.org: Teen Dating Violence Prevention and Outreach

LoveisRespect.org is the ultimate resource fostering healthy dating attitudes and relationships with the

Dancing to Health in New Mexico

Funding through HKHF assists NDI New Mexico to provide 6,320 children statewide with dance and healthy lifestyle classes that teach and promote physical fitness, success-oriented behaviors and attitudes, healthy nutrition, new learning skills, and personal well-being.

Youth Health Literacy Partnership Project

The NMASBHC engages youth as a Youth Health Literacy Team (YHLT) to lead and participate in a project using social media to improve youth health literacy.

http://www.loveisrespect.org/

National Dance Institute of New Mexico, Inc. Santa Fe, NM

most comprehensive expert-created content on the web. HKHF support will help enhance the immediate, peer-to-peer assistance and other support services available, in addition to creating tailored, on-theground, direct community outreach, education and training across HCSC's four states.

http://www.ndi-nm.org

New Mexico Alliance For School Based Health Care Albuquerque, NM http://www.nmasbhc.org

New Mexico Alliance For School Based Health Care Albuquerque, NM

School-Based Health Center (SBHC) Health Improvement Project

Through HKHF support, NMASBHC will continue efforts of improving the health of children and youth

Oklahoma Caring Foundation endowment fund - 2012 HKHF Grant

The grant will be instrumental in the establishment and early growth of the Oklahoma Caring Foundation Fund, a charitable endowment, managed by the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. Creation of the endowment is a strategic step to help ensure the future financial security of the Oklahoma Caring Foundation as it works to operate programs that provide Oklahomans access to preventive health services.

through increasing access to and quality of care provided to BCBSNM members' children/youth by school-based health centers (SBHC).

http://www.nmasbhc.org

Oklahoma Caring Foundation, Inc. Tulsa, OK http://www.oklahomacaringfoundation.org

Oklahoma State University Foundation http://www.osugiving.com

Telemedicine/Distance Learning Network

The Oklahoma State University Center for Rural Health at the OSU Center for Health Sciences (OSU-CHS) will develop nine telemedicine/distance learning sites in rural Oklahoma. All nine sites will receive videoconferencing technology that will allow their healthcare providers and medical students rotating at their site to participate in distance learning opportunities with OSU-CHS and OSU Medical Center.

Oklahoma State University Foundation

The OrganWise Guys Comprehensive School Program

The OrganWise Guys Comprehensive School Program focuses on Pre-K through 5th grade children being healthy. This comprehensive health and wellness program targets healthy habits such as low-fat, high-fiber, lots of water and exercise. Each one of these preventable health habits has been identified as behaviors that help reduce the risk factors for obesity and its associated health issues.

Sow and Grow Summer Program @PQC

The grant provided will support the Sow and Grow Summer Program at Paul Quinn College, which is designed to introduce high school and college students to organic farming/gardening and to develop healthy eating habits. The program will also the college's efforts to provide community residents with access to healthy foods, as an alternative to the fast foods offered in a community that has been deemed deemed a food desert by the USDA.

Building a Foundation for Health: Immunizations and Well-Child Checks

Filling a critical need, PCC serves more than 2,400 low-income, uninsured pediatric patients by providing patients by providing a full range of primary health care with an emphasis on prevention. Central to this work, the Building a Foundation for Health initiative aims to increase capacity to deliver vital wellness and education services through pediatric well-child checks and immunizations, ensuring that the children of our community have the best possible start in life.

http://www.osugiving.com

Paul Quinn College Dallas, TX http://www.pqc.edu

People's Community Clinic Austin, TX http://www.austinpcc.org

Project Success of Vermilion County, Inc. Danville, IL

Extension of Current Afterschool Nutrition and Fitness Program

Through Healthy Kids, Healthy Families support, Project Success works to create positive change in the behaviors of our parents toward healthier eating as a direct result of this partnership and wants that impact to continue.

Real Men Building Healthy Kids and Strengthening Families

This grant will be used to prevent health problems in children, parents, and families in Englewood through comprehensive and culturally competent education and training on healthy living.

http://www.projectsuccessvc.org

Real Men Charities, Inc./Real Men Cook Chicago, IL http://www.realmencook.com

Recipe For Success Foundation Houston, TX http://www.recipe4success.org

Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education at Rodriguez Elementary

Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education at Rodriguez Elementary will provide comprehensive, experiential nutrition education programming to an under served Houston community. Both parents and their children will participate in healthy culinary and gardening classes that will lead to lifelong healthy eating habits.

San Juan Regional Medical Center, Inc. Farmington, NM

Healthy FETKids

http://www.fullengagementtraining.com

Sinai Health System Chicago, IL http://www.suhichicago.org/

Special Olympics New Mexico Albuquerque, NM

Improving Diabetes Outcomes Block by Block in North and South Lawndale

This grant supports the Healthy FET Kids program, which addresses the health and wellness needs of traditionally underserved, low-income, rural, multi-ethnic elementary school age students and their families in Northern New Mexico. The funding will be used to train and supply additional Board selected school's staff and administrators, and continue to support previous Healthy FET Kid's schools. This program consists of a diabetes and childhood obesity outreach effort within two Chicago areas targeting both the Mexican and African American community to educate and improve health situations using community health workers to create sustainable and positive health outcomes.

2012-2013 Young Athletes Program

Special Olympics New Mexico supports the Young Athletes Program, an innovative sports-play curriculum that targets children from ages 2-7 with developmental disabilities.

Building Texas CASA's Community of Champions

To strengthen its outreach efforts and advocacy for foster children, Texas CASA will build an interactive, online community of supporters to be strong champions for our mission to be a voice for abused or neglected children and bring about change in the child protection system.

ACE in the Box - Access, Continuity and Education with Fruits and Vegetables for our youth

The ACE in the Box project will provide fresh produce and the corresponding education to inner city students to impact their way of eating and change demand for healthier food. The grant will enable the project to purchase and distribute produce for these families to conduct the study and receive metrics on how this intervention changed demand for healthy foods.

Kid's Cafes - Nutrition Education

The Texas Food Bank Network (TFBN) utilizes Healthy Kids Healthy Families funding to enhance the ability of their member food banks to provide nutrition and health education to children who participate in Kid's Cafe programs. Kids Cafes provide free meals and snacks and nutrition/health education to lowincome children at community-based afterschool programs.

http://www.sonm.org

Texas CASA, Inc. Austin, TX http://www.texascasa.org

Texas Childrens Hospital Foundation Houston, TX http://www.texaschildrenshospital.org

Texas Food Bank Network Fort Worth, TX http://www.endhungerintex.org

Texas Health Institute Austin, TX http://www.texashealthinstitute.org

The Benefit Bank of Texas

This grant supports outreach and implementation of The Benefit Bank of Texas connecting rural children and families with supplemental nutrition assistance, health insurance, tax credits, and other state and federal supports they are eligible for but not receiving. Our target population is low to moderate income including working families with children in fire and drought stricken areas of rural Texas who are at extreme risk for hunger and poverty.

Texas Medical Association Foundation Austin, TX

2013 HHLH

Grant funding from Healthy Kids, Healthy Families will provide educational materials on healthy activities and behaviors, plus a free, properly fitted helmet to children across Texas.

http://www.tmaf.org

The Cluthe And William B Oliver Foundation For Health And Aging Houston, TX

STOP 2048 ®

The STOP 2048® program is aimed at redefining the standard of healthy living in economically disadvantaged communities through nutrition and physical education.

http://www.oliverfoundation.org

The Family YMCA Los Alamos, NM

Funding will increase student achievement and reduce risk-taking behaviors through academic support, health and enrichment programming.

http://www.laymca.org

Española YMCA Teen Center Educational Support and Health Outreach

The Notah Begay III Foundation, Inc Santa Ana Pueblo, NM

San Felipe Pueblo: Turning the Tide Against Childhood Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Project

This project will build the capacity of a New Mexico Native American community to address childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes among its children. The project enhances youth and community leadership and organizing capacity, mobilize internal and external community assets, and empower ownership among San Felipe stakeholders to create systemic change in their own community. The project will address lack of access to healthy and fresh foods, nutrition education, physical fitness opportunities and leadership development.

http://www.nb3foundation.org

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNMHSC), Prevention Research Center Albuquerque, NM

The WellRx Toolkit Initiative: Developing Social Determinants Prescription Referrals to Improve Health Outcomes in New Mexico

The project will focus on improving community health, reducing health disparities and improving health outcomes and will include healthcare research. HKHF funding will support Phase 1 of the proposed 3-year/4-Phase project to develop, implement and evaluate the WellRx toolkit for referrals for non-medical client needs. In Phase 1, we will plan and design the WellRx initiative, develop protocols, develop an Implementation plan, and develop an Evaluation Plan.

Addiction Medicine Fellowship

The fellowship in Addiction Medicine works to increase the professional workforce available in Tulsa to diagnoses and treat addiction problems, which are a major killer in our community and a major cause of adverse childhood events in families with an addicted parent.

http://hsc.unm.edu/community/och.shtml

University of Oklahoma Foundation Norman, OK http://www.oufoundation.org

Young Mens Christian Association Of Greater Tulsa Tulsa, OK http://www.ymcatulsa.org

Kids 5K Training Program

This training program engages underserved populations with a structured wellness activity in the YMCA's after school programs. This will assist in better attendance, fewer corrective action issues and an overall improvement of the health of the students with the targeted communities.