With First Lady Michelle Obama serving as Honorary Chair, Nemours is one of the founding members of a Partnership for a Healthier America.
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Annual Report Summaries
2008 Annual Summary
Through our campaign to make Delaware’s kids the healthiest in the nation, 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 that 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 through representation on several child health advocacy groups
At the 5-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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2007 Annual Summary
NHPS celebrated a number of significant accomplishments in 2007, including:
- reaching close to 100,000 children who are now more physically active and eating healthier 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’s efforts to address childhood obesity in Delaware
- 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.
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