This portfolio includes the Endowment's Healthy Weight Initiative, which encourages healthy eating and physical activity by funding new projects in school, community, neighborhood and practitioner settings in Wake County. The Physical Health Portfolio also includes projects that provide vision screening, dental health services, diabetes management and specialist services for children and youth diagnosed with disease or disabilities.
* indicates a closed grant
Advocates for Health in Action
This project focuses on improving the ability for AHA to shape the environment so healthful eating and physical activity are the way of life for everyone living in Wake County.
WakeMed
Target low-income patients to provide outpatient and inpatient diabetes case management coordinated by a registered nurse/certified diabetic educator who will work with other nurses and dieticians, physician offices and the public schools.
WakeMed
Enhance interventions for children with pre-diabetes and diabetes with direct physician care services. Expand the Pediatric Diabetes Program education/exercise program for at-risk children. Develop quality research data to measure impact and support advocacy.
WakeMed
Ensure continuity of outpatient and inpatient diabetes case management, physician care services and education/exercise program for low-income patients with pre-diabetes and diabetes. Conduct community-based research on effectiveness of interventions.
Prevent Blindness North Carolina
Conduct scientific study of vision research photo screening technology to determine best practice for preschool children.
Wake County Medical Society
Secure donated physician care, hospital services and medical assistance for uninsured children with medical needs from families with income below 185% of poverty.
Wake County Medical Society
Secure donated physician care, hospital services and medical assistance for uninsured children with medical needs from families with income below 185% of poverty.
Wake County Human Services Dental Health and Prenatal Clinic
Promote the use of dental services by expectant mothers to improve birth outcomes and maximize visits to dental clinic by children from birth to age 3. Assure access to dental services to children with obvious need but no ability to pay for care.
Wake Teen
Ensure that low-income, uninsured and underinsured youth, age 10-23, have access to medications and lab screenings ordered by Wake Teen physicians.
Wake Teen
Provide needed medications and diagnostic lab testing to teens in order to decrease health disparities in high-risk youth.