Annual Report Summaries
Through our Campaign to Make Delaware’s Kids the Healthiest in the Nation, Nemours Health and Prevention Services (NHPS) celebrated a number of significant accomplishments in 2008, including:
- Inspiring more than 100,000 children to make healthy changes in their behavior
- Helping set some of the country’s most progressive state child care policy standards for nutrition
- Further developing an award-winning social marketing campaign which raised awareness and inspired action in Delaware and beyond
- Holding the third Nemours Conference on Child Health promotion attended by nearly 400 participants
- Continuing to motivate policy and practice change among schools, child care centers, primary care practices, and community organizations
- Raising the Nemours profile at the national level by its representation on several national child health advocacy groups
At the five year mark, NHPS has made considerable progress in its quest to improve the health and well-being of children through community collaboration, education, advocacy, and research. It is within our grasp to create a healthier state for children!
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Nemours Health and Prevention Services (NHPS) celebrated a number of significant accomplishments in 2007, including, but not limited to:
- Reaching close to 100,000 children who are now more physically active or eating healthy foods
- Engaging and mobilizing more than 200 partners
- Motivating policy and practice change among schools, child care centers, primary care practices, and community organizations
- Receiving a $2 million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to enhance and support ongoing evaluation
- Launching the Campaign to Make Delaware’s Kids the Healthiest in the Nation with the endorsement of more than 125 organizations throughout Delaware
- Securing coverage from a variety of media outlets to highlight NHPS’ efforts to address childhood obesity in Delaware; and receiving organizational and individual appointments to several influential local, state, and national associations
This is all part of Nemours’ effort to improve health outcomes for children in Delaware by implementing a comprehensive and integrated approach to children’s health. This integrated approach covers the continuum of care from health promotion and prevention to treatment.
