April 2013 Newsletter
In This Issue
Grants Available
'Take the Stairs' to Promote a Healthier Workforce
"Easy Choices" Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Celebrate Walk NH Week!
HNH Foundation Announces New Obesity Prevention Initiative
Going Places
Grants Available to Support School Breakfast and Physical Activity
Does your school need a boost to increase participation in breakfast? Do you need funding to support adding more minutes of physical activity for your students?  


Action for Healthy Kids is pleased to partner with CSX Transportation, Kellogg Company, and the Walmart Foundation to offer grants for the 2013-2014 school year to support such initiatives. Awards will be given to over 400 schools ranging from $1,000 to $5,000.   

 

Find out if your school is eligible for these opportunities.  

 

Applications are due April 19, 2013   

RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize
Call for Applications  

Is your community working to improve health?

Click here to view the call for applications for 2013-14

Prize-winning communities each receive $25,000 to honor their outstanding community efforts to help people live healthier lives. 
 
The New Hampshire Comprehensive Cancer Collaboration hosted its 8th Annual Conference on March 20, 2013 in Concord.

The event, attended by over 200 people, addressed the impact of health care reform and how it affects the delivery of cancer care.

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 Upcoming Event:
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Sample tasty tidbits 
Meet farmers and chefs 



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"We anticipate 'Easy Choices' apples appearing in numerous restaurants, workplaces, and other venues over the next two years."

-Kristen Coats
UV HEAL Partnership Coordinator

 

At work, employees are often presented with a choice between taking the stairs and taking an elevator. Choosing the stairs instead of the elevator is a quick way for your employees to add physical activity to their day. The Capitol Area Wellness Coalition began a stairway pilot program in five buildings for four employers in Concord last November.

 

 

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"Easy Choices" Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock is Helping Consumers Make Healthy Food Choices
If you're eating in the Main Dining Room or the East Mall Café at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, you might notice one, two or three apple icons on the nutritional labels for some of the entrees and side dishes being offered. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Food and Nutrition Services team hopes to help employees and visitors who are time-stressed make choosing healthier food an "easy choice."

  

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Walk NH Logo Join us for Walk NH Week 2013.You can schedule a walk with your school, senior center, health facility, business, park and recreation department, etc. to be a part of this statewide effort to encourage people to make walking part of their daily lifestyle. 

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HNH Foundation Announces New Obesity Prevention Initiative        


PARTNER SPOTLIGHT: Concord, NH - The HNH Foundation recently announced a new year-long initiative designed to focus public attention on the obesity epidemic. Plans call for communities throughout the state to host public screenings of the "Challenges" segment of HBO's award-winning Weight of the Nation documentary series, which powerfully drives home how public policies and our built environment have contributed to escalating obesity rates. 

  

 
Click here for additional news on the HEAL NH Website 

 

How does the way we get from one place to another affect our health, our environment, and the way our communities feel to those who live and work in them? Does our current transportation infrastructure help or hinder the development of a vibrant economy and a healthy population? Join the conversation taking place around the state April 30 through May 16, 2013.

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We hope you enjoy our newsletter and find it a helpful resource. Help us spread the word by this newsletter to colleagues who might be interested in learning about HEAL strategies and sharing information.   

 

Thank you for your partnership and continued support.  

 

Sincerely,  

 

Terry Johnson, Director

Healthy Eating Active Living NH

www.healnh.org 

tjohnson@healthynh.com 

 

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About HEAL

HEAL envisions a New Hampshire where all residents enjoy health and quality of life through healthy eating and active living.


Our core mission is to work in collaboration with our partners to inspire, advance and support policies, systems and environmental changes to promote healthy people in healthy places throughout New Hampshire.    

 

HEAL started in 2008 and is led by the Foundation for Healthy Communities, a non-profit New Hampshire organization focused on improving health and health care through innovative partnerships.

  


HEAL Funders

Funding is provided by the HNH Foundation, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation, Endowment for Health, NH Charitable Foundation, NH Department of Health and Human Services, and  Convergence Partnership Fund of Tides Foundation.