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In the meantime, below is a list of current grant recipients.

Community-Based: Completed Projects
Hillside Work Scholarship Connection’s Eat Well Live Well was an eight-week project in cooperation with Wegmans. Students tracked their daily steps and the amount of fruits and vegetables they consumed.

Triple Play is a national fitness program for children to promote fitness and proper nutrition in inner city youth sponsored by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Rochester. GRHF funded the project that includes a cooking program, teaches new ways to handle stress, helps maintain a healthy body, and encourages positive relationships.

YMCA’s Health Seeker Initiative sought referrals from pediatricians of children at risk for overweight and obesity to participate in a program to learn about health, wellness and lifelong skills for physical activity.

The Urban League’s Child Health and Family Wellness program provided health and wellness workshops, dance and physical education classes, and health and nutrition case management to families at two city schools.

Quad A for Kids is a neighborhood after-school program that serves economically disadvantaged children in three city schools. The GRHF-funded project increased the number of physical activities available to children in the program and provided them with healthy evening meals.

Rochester Business Alliance (RBA) Workplace Wellness Strategic Planning Project signed up employers to implement Wegmans’ Eat Well Live Well eight-week program to encourage employees to move more and to increase the amount of fruits and vegetables they consumed.

Community-Based: Current Projects
YMCA’s Hispanic-Latino Wellness Initiative is an after-school nutrition and fitness program that is increasing moderate to vigorous physical activity in K–6 graders. The Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) brings kids together to have fun playing games that provide continuous movement and teach a set of lifelong skills.

Tweens and Teens Fitness Center, at the Jewish Community Center, developed an In Zone Fitness Club combining high-tech interactive workout equipment with a full cardio room. The In Zone features a Virtual Gym with interactive fitness equipment such as Dance Dance Revolution, Sport Wall, and X-Board.

Foodlink’s Healthy Community Project addressed the nutrition needs of low-income families by changing the food and nutrition choices available to them. Nutritious meals were provided at Holy Family School’s after-school program and children were sent home with backpacks of healthy foods each week. In addition, community meals offering a wide range of healthy foods were offered twice a month.

Schools: Completed Projects
The Fred W. Hill School in Brockport created a fitness facility for students and staff that houses strength, cardiovascular and fitness equipment with a “Sunrise Exercise” morning program for students.

R.E.S.H.A.P.E. the Future was a Rochester City School District project that involved more than 4,400 students in nine elementary schools who lived in conditions of poverty and were at high risk for overweight and obesity.

Schools: Current Projects
The Webster Central School District is implementing a multi-component Healthy Choice Challenge project at State Road and Schlegel Road Elementary Schools to increase physical activity and improve nutrition for students. The project includes outdoor fitness trails, the Sports, Play and Active Recreation for Kids (SPARK) after-school program, hydroponics, interactive technology equipment including Dance Dance Revolution, and additional lifelong fitness activities.

Manor Elementary School in the Honeoye Falls/Lima Central School District is implementing their EveryBODY Moves: Recharging Brains and Bodies through Fitness and Healthy Eating project. They are capitalizing on children’s fascination with video games and technology by establishing a state-of-the-art Virtual Fitness Lab for before, during and after-school use, as well as in the summer. Manor also plans to brand the cafeteria food to entice children to participate in the school lunch program and eat healthier.

Cobbles Elementary School in the Penfield Central School District is increasing physical activity and improving nutrition through their Muscles in Motion (M in M ) project. Plans include expanding an outdoor fitness trail, increasing indoor and outdoor recess, hydroponics, interactive technology to keep kids moving, and action-based learning. They also are creating Healthy Meals for the lower grades and salad bar options for older children, and using redeemable Cobbles Coins as incentives for children to eat healthier and be more active.

Child Care: Current Projects
Greater Rochester Healthy Child Care 2010 is led by the Children’s Institute in collaboration with Child Care Council, Inc., Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong and Rochester Childfirst Network. Two programs, Eat Well Play Hard and Hip Hop to Health Junior, are being implemented in 108 childcare settings and will reach 2,500+ children in family childcare settings and childcare centers.

The YMCA’s Healthy Beginnings project will work to improve the culture and behaviors in YMCA childcare settings by increasing children’s moderate to vigorous physical activity and serving them more fruits and vegetables.

Action for a Better Community’s ABC 1+2+3 project will serve 1,200 Head Start children to provide increased physical activity, nutritious meals, and education using Head Start programs, I Am Moving, I Am Learning and Little Voices for Healthy Choices. ABC will work with Cornell Cooperative Extension to provide activities for families.

Policy and Practice Solutions: Current Project
Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention: Advancing Policy and Practice Solutions is a collaborative project of The Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency, the Children’s Agenda and the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Department of Pediatrics and Center for Community Health. Their goal is to build an effective, public policy and practice change agenda to reduce childhood obesity/overweight. These changes will require action by schools, childcare settings, municipalities, hospitals, and community-based organizations.

Clinical: Current Projects
The University of Rochester Medical Center is developing a Childhood Obesity Report Card to obtain a baseline measurement of Body Mass Index (BMI). This data will be used to create a map of childhood obesity within the county so that prevention efforts may be targeted to the areas most in need of support.

The University of Rochester Medical Center’s Greater Rochester Clinical Initiative for Childhood Obesity Prevention is developing and implementing a clinical quality improvement program to change the culture of how care is delivered around childhood obesity in the Greater Rochester area through learning collaboratives and toolkits. The focus will be on prevention, screening and treatment delivered by pediatric primary care providers.