Funding Opportunities
Project Diabetes
Project Diabetes is a statewide initiative focusing on innovative education, prevention, and treatment programs for diabetes and obesity.
Fundamental goals of Project Diabetes are to:
- Decrease the prevalence of overweight/obesity across the State and, in turn, prevent or delay the onset of Type 2 diabetes and/or the consequences of this devastating disease;
- Educate the public about current and emerging health issues linked to diabetes and obesity;
- Promote community, public-private partnerships to identify and solve regional health problems related to obesity and diabetes;
- Advise and recommend policies and programs that support individual and community health improvement efforts;
- Evaluate effectiveness of improvement efforts/programs that address overweight, obesity, prediabetes, and diabetes; and,
- Disseminate best practices for diabetes prevention and health improvement.
For more information, go to: http://health.state.tn.us/projectdiabetes.htm .
American Dietetic Association’s Kids Eat Right
The American Dietetic Association (ADA) and ADA Foundation’s Kids Eat Right program aims to provide many new resources to assist members in working with schools and communities to help kids eat better and move more.
ADA Partner, National Dairy Council, kicks-off the new school year by providing RD Fuel Up to Play 60 grants. As part of the new ADA and ADA Foundation’s Kids Eat Right initiative, 50 (50) $2,000 grants will be awarded to support implementing Fuel Up to Play 60 in targeted school districts during the 2010/11 school year. A total of $100,000 in RD Fuel Up to Play 60 grant funding will be available. RDs who receive these grants will:
- “Coach” two schools and their students as they use Fuel Up to Play 60 to achieve sustainable improvements in the school nutrition and physical activity environment.
- Increase attention given towards the total nutritional needs of youth by focusing on ways to increase students access to kid-appealing, tasty food and drinks kids need more of (DGA 2010) to meet requirements for growth and development.
For more information, a list of markets (NASHVILLE) where schools will likely be located and a participation form, visit www.eatright.org/foundation/kidseatright
Kids Eat Right Objectives
- To mobilize RDs to participate in community and school efforts to prevent and eliminate childhood obesity.
- To educate children, families, communities, and policy makers of the importance of incorporating quality nutrition into childhood obesity prevention efforts.
- To support the White House Childhood Obesity Task Force recommendations with a special focus on parents and schools by mobilizing ADA members.
