Continue delivering the MEND Program, a 9-week evidence-based healthy eating and active living program to low-income children and their families while also building toward long-term sustainability by integrating programs with healthcare providers and testing approaches to referrals and reimbursement.
Continuing efforts to ensure healthy living is a priority for Colorado's children.
Promoting healthy development and approaches to real estate policy and practice that foster healthy outcomes for people in Colorado and nationwide through the America in 2015 Survey, Healthy Corridors project, and the Building Healthy Places: Focus on Food, Health, and Economic Development conference.
Connect children and families with vital nutrition programs.
Provide wrap-around health, wellness and parenting education services to low income pregnant and parenting teens, their children, young fathers, and extended family.
Continue developing and refining the BMI Surveillance System, which currently aggregates data from multiple health care delivery systems in eight Colorado counties. The system allows stakeholders to identify geographic areas with high rates of obesity, and track changes in obesity over time. The system was developed in collaboration with multiple stakeholders in the public health, health care systems, and non-profit communities.
Collaborative funding to decrease Colorado's unplanned pregnancy rate through long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods provided in clinics throughout Colorado.
Continue expanding the impact and effectiveness of our programming in education, community outreach, food production and distribution.
Support specifically to address Colorado performing in the lowest quintile in the US for access and enrollment in SNAP for well over a decade. Currently, Colorado is ranked 46th in the nation for SNAP enrollment.
Building ongoing family planning strategies in collaboration with other local foundations.
