WDC38: Supporting Children’s Healthy Living in the U.S. affiliated Pacific Region
(Multistate Research Coordinating Committee and Information Exchange Group)
Status: Inactive/Terminating
WDC38: Supporting Children’s Healthy Living in the U.S. affiliated Pacific Region
Duration: 10/01/2015 to 09/30/2016
Administrative Advisor(s):
NIFA Reps:
Non-Technical Summary
Statement of Issues and Justification
The Children’s Healthy Living Program for Remote Underserved Minority Populations in the Pacific Region (CHL) is a partnership among remote Pacific states and other jurisdictions of the US: Alaska, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Hawaii, Republic of Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). A CHL foundation evolved from many past collaborations, the largest and most recent was from a USDA NIFA CAP grant.
The goal of the CHL Program collaboration among Pacific Region states/jurisdictions is to build social/cultural, physical/built, and political/economic environments that will promote active play and intake of healthy food to prevent young child obesity in the Pacific Region. To do this, CHL engages the community, and focuses on capacity building and sustainable environmental change.
Objectives
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Develop a full proposal for submission in January 2016