Program areas at Amerihealth Caritas Foundation
Healthy hoops is an innovative asthma and obesity management program that uses basketball as a platform to teach children with asthma and their families how to manage asthma through proper nutrition, exercise and appropriate medication use. It also focuses on decreasing childhood obesity and increasing cardiovascular activity.
The health ministry program for women is a faith-based health education program designed to educate participants on important health topics, including breast cancer, diabetes, obesity, stroke and hypertension, heart disease awareness and prevention, stress, depression, and emotional and mental well-being. It also focuses on domestic and sexual violence, smoking cessation, proper nutrition, and healthy lifestyles.
Safe playground program helps to promote healthy lifestyles for kids by decreasing childhood obesity and preventing injuries that result from obsolete and dangerous equipment. Studies show that education, development and providing adult supervised activities reduce the amount of play injuries while increasing motivation and physical fitness.
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University of pittsburgh center for parents and children - the center for parents and children aims to bridge the gap between science and practice in the service of promoting positive outcomes for children and families, with a special emphasis on early childhood.
March of dimes, nicu family support nicu family support (nfs) is the premier program for neonatal intensive care units (nicu), offering family education, staff training on family-centered care and improved patient experience with the support of march of dimes experts.
University of Pennsylvania ignites program fund - (1) continue providing a range of environmental remediation and economic support interventions to households with children across philadelphia; (2) administer a new follow-up survey to all ignite trial households that include 1 or more children, focused on capturing child health and well being outcomes following the intervention; (3) use a range of data sources including children's hospital of philadelphia electronic health record data, Pennsylvania birth certificate data, and philadelphia school district data to assess additional outcomes for children living in ignite study clusters.