Muskegon Area Intermediate School District aims to address some of the root causes of poor child health by improving the overall school health environment and increasing participation in its breakfast program. Muskegon Area ISD will equip schools with resources to...
The Battle Creek Family YMCA will create a community platform to serve as a hub for youth-led wellness programming. Centered around the incentive-based Passport to Wellness, the platform will provide a menu of fitness opportunities and social responsibility activities...
Big Green will partner with the Detroit Public Schools Community District to provide learning gardens and food literacy programming in 10 school buildings where no garden program exists or where an existing program needs to be focused or enhanced.
The Community Action House will convert their longstanding, high-volume, client-choice food pantry into a community food club in order to increase access to healthy food and serve more households in need. Households purchase monthly memberships to the food club and...
GiGiFit combines physical therapy with fitness and wellness programs to minimize the adverse health conditions that may accompany Down syndrome, such as low muscle tone, decreased balance, and excessive joint laxity. GiGi’s Playhouse Detroit will integrate the GiGiFit...
This project will bring Dearborn SHINES, a program dedicated to improving the health of school-aged and early childhood youth and their families, to six additional Dearborn Public Schools and the district’s early childhood center. Dearborn SHINES decreases risk...
This project builds on the early successes of United Way for Southeastern Michigan’s innovative Feeding, Eating and Succeeding Together (FEAST) program, which empowers adults to adopt authoritative feeding practices operationalized by the evidence-based and...
Wayne State University and its partners will develop more robust technological platforms to expand the capacity and effectiveness of Building Healthy Communities, a comprehensive nutrition and physical activity program implemented in elementary and middle schools....
This initiative will address the current lack of coordination between multiple stakeholders concerning childhood overweight and obesity by creating a learning health system comprised of experts from health systems, community programs, and other stakeholder...
