Success Stories by Topic: African Americans

• Community Health Education and Development Program
  May 2009
  The Community Health Education and Development (CHED) program was established to increase health care access in the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula of Virginia.
• Dancing to Deter Diabetes
  June 2007
  The "Reach Out" project in rural Lake County, California, helps diabetics learn about nutrition and medication, and they dance.
• Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project
  January 2007
  Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project is a health education and screening project targeting obesity and related diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke in at-risk African American adolescents and adults in the parishes of Bienville, Lincoln and Jackson.