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08/31/2010
Advocates for Health in Action (AHA) and Wake County Asthma Coalition have partnered up to launch a county-wide Air Quality Flag Initiative. Participating organizations and businesses will display an appropriate flag based on a daily e-mail notification of the air quality. Free flags and instructions will be provided. Sign up as a participating agency today by contacting Laura Aiken, director of AHA.
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08/26/2010
Cynthia Seale-Rivera, program director of Teen Parent Connection, and a teen mother talk with Angela Hampton on ABC 11 Heart of Carolina Perspectives. Teen Parent Connection, a collaborative program with community-based support services for pregnant and parenting teens, is offered by the YWCA of the Greater Triangle with grant support from the John Rex Endowment. The program provides comprehensive resources with a focus on enhancing parent-child interactions and relationships, reducing disparities in birth outcomes, and improving educational outcomes for teen parents.
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07/21/2010
The John Rex Endowment continues a long-term commitment to a Healthy Weight Initiative with more than $1.8 million awarded for new grant projects which will focus on encouraging healthy eating, physical activity, and community-wide solutions to combat childhood obesity. Since 2006, the John Rex Endowment has supported Healthy Weight Initiative investments in various Wake County settings which include elementary schools, childcare settings and communities.
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07/15/2010
Turn a park walk into an outdoor adventure for children with A Closer Look, a new series of 12 etched, metal plates featuring images of native plants and animals along 1.25 miles of trails at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Families can search for each unique plate and make their own plate rubbings along the way. A helpful guide, LOOK FOR ME, is available at the museum. Just remember to bring along paper and crayons!
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07/14/2010
Eight grants, totaling $186,568, will be funded by the John Rex Endowment through a Capacity Building Initiative. Funding supports projects that aim to enhance an organization’s ability to sustain programs and improve performance. The grants include organizational assessment planning projects as well as capacity building implementation.
Investing in the Health and Well-Being of Children in our Community
Together, with a diverse group of organizations, we are identifying children's needs, seeking innovative solutions and making changes in Wake County.
We invite your ideas as we work together to address social, emotional, behavioral and physical health issues, improve access to health care and combat childhood obesity.
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05/12/2010
Making healthy choices isn’t always as easy as it sounds. It’s even harder if your food choices are limited.
Thousands of children in Wake County do not have access to foods they need to thrive and maintain a healthy weight. These children have food insecurities and do not know when or how they will get their next meal. Consequently, they are likely to both miss meals and fill up on more readily available low-cost, high-calorie foods with poor nutritional value.
