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Wellmark Foundation awards 9 mini-grants in Iowa

The Wellmark Foundation funded nine mini-grant requests totaling $78,655 to improve the health status of Iowans. Organizations in Central Iowa receiving awards in the funding priority areas of depression, diabetes and health literacy are:

Harrisdale Homestead Educational and Research Center in Atlantic received a $10,000 grant to develop a type 2 diabetes prevention awareness program targeting children in kindergarten through fifth grade.
The Iowa Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics will use a $10,000 grant to begin expansion of Iowa’s Reach Out and Read Program to all 12 Community Health Centers in the state.

•The Iowa Health Foundation in Des Moines received a $10,000 grant for a program to reduce, prevent and stop childhood obesity and its co-morbidities.

•The Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation received a $6,000 grant to develop a statewide diabetes and physical fitness project.

•Iowa Partners: Action for Healthy Kids, Inc. was awarded a $10,000 grant to provide mini-grants to 20 participating youth who attend Youth Empowered Ambassadors for Health.

Jefferson County recently held a one-week Fitness Leadership Corps Summer Camp
Over fifty students attended.
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