Program areas at St Lawrence County Health Initiative
Navigator program - provide assistance to consumers, small businesses, and their employees to find Health care coverage though the marketplace.
Creating healthy schools and communities (chsc) implementing food service guidelines (fsgs) with worksitess and community settings in multiple venues to increase the availability of healthy foods. Fsgs are specific food and nutrition standards and sustainability standards for food service operations that can be used to create a food environment that makes healthier choices easier for consumers. Improving policies, practices, and environments for physical activity and nutrition in early care and education (ece) settings. Grantees may also work to improve policies, practices, and environments for physical activity in some cacfp centers as identified by the doh. Implementing community planning and active transportation interventions in municipalities to increase safe and accessible physical activity. This is accomplished through collaboration with partners to connect sidewalks, paths, bicycle routes, and public transit with homes, early care and education sites, schools, worksites, parks, or recreation centers by implementing master plans and land use interventions or complete streets policies or plans. This is achieved by establishing new or improved pedestrian, bicycle, or transit transportation systems that are combined with new or improved land use or environmental design.
Teen help - oversees the use of multiple evidence-based comprehensive sex education curricula that provide adolescents with the knowledge, motivation and skills necessary to reduce their risk of unintended pregnancy and contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
Nutrition and physical activity, cancer prevention in action and all other program.