Building Healthy Communities Grants
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About the grant
Building Healthy Communities: Engaging Elementary Schools Through Partnership is a comprehensive, school-wide childhood obesity prevention program led by the Center for School Health in the College of Education at Wayne State University. The Building Healthy Communities partners share a core commitment to decreasing the risk and incidence of childhood obesity, especially in Michigan's low-income urban areas.
Recipents receive
Selected schools will receive a healthy school transformation package of program materials curriculum, equipment, professional development, mentoring and technical support valued at $30,000. This package aims to create school-wide environments that support education and opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity for students and their families.
Together, eight components in the Building Healthy Communities program engage principals, classroom teachers, physical education teachers, librarians and media specialists, after-school program leaders, other school staff and parents to provide consistent messages encouraging children to choose healthy foods and be physically active throughout the school day and beyond.
Now accepting applications
The Center for School Health in the College of Education at Wayne State University along with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and the Michigan Fitness Foundation invite Michigan elementary schools to apply for a Building Healthy Communities grant to implement a healthy school transformation during the 2012-2013 school year.
To learn more about this grant opportunity, click on the Grant Request for Applications. It includes important information that you will need as you fill out your application. When you are ready to apply, download the application, fill it out, and email to: a.murphy@wayne.edu by March 30, 2012.
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