Success Stories by Topic: Obesity

• Community-Based Care for Persons Living with Type 2 Diabetes
  July 2009
  The Community-based Care for Persons Living with Type 2 Diabetes program was designed to prevent complications commonly associated with type 2 diabetes.
• Fit for Life
  July 2009
  The Fit for Life program was designed to provide medical supervision so area residents with health conditions could safely participate in an exercise program and educational opportunities.
• Modified Health Risks: Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  July 2009
  The primary focus of the program was providing health screenings to detect the presence of sleep apnea and the associated health risks of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity to people in five rural counties.
• Connecting the Chronically Ill
  July 2009
  The Connecting the Chronically Ill project's goals included connecting the chronically ill, medically underserved adults to health care services; Improving quality of life through wellness education and case management services; and providing health care coverage for low-income, medically underserved, chronically ill adults age 18 and older living in Baker County.
• Rural Health Education Program
  May 2009
  The Rural Health Education Program sponsored an array of programs designed to increase awareness of diabetes, to reduce the risk factors for the disease, and to teach people with diabetes how to manage the illness properly.
• Salud en Sus Manos (Health in Your Hands) Project
  January 2007
  The goals of the Salud en Sus Manos (Health in Your Hands) project are to reduce disparities in diabetes and obesity; improve access to diabetes and obesity services; and improve the quality of diabetes and obesity health services for Hispanic and rural residents in the Yakima Valley in Washington.
• Keya Program - Long Life for Good Health
  January 2007
  This project seeks to reduce overweight and obesity to prevent diabetes and to improve the health status of those with diagnosed diabetes.
• Steps to Wellness/Pasos a Salud
  January 2007
  This project is intended to improve the emotional and physical well-being of our rural community residents by providing individual and group support and education to people suffering from diabetes and/or obesity.
• Twin City Hospital (TCH) Healthy Community/Happy Children Outreach Program
  January 2007
  The goal of the Twin City Hospital (TCH) Healthy Community/Happy Children Outreach Program (HC/HCOP) is to provide an innovative, multi-agency means to reduce the number of overweight and obese men, women, and children of all ages in several rural Ohio counties.
• Fighting Obesity in Children and Adolescents
  January 2007
  This project aims to reduce the proportion of children and adolescents who are overweight or obese in three Michigan counties.
• Thumb Area Nutrition and Physical Activity Campaign
  January 2007
  This project aims to reduce obesity and promote healthy lifestyles to adults and children through community outreach and health promotion interventions.
• The Healthy Community Coalition
  January 2007
  A multi-dimensional community-wide initiative promoting healthy life choices was implemented in Greater Franklin County, Maine.
• Dubach Health Outreach Project
  January 2007
  The purpose of this health outreach project was to access a multidisciplinary community-based intervention to combat obesity and related chronic diseases in Dubach and the neighboring communities.
• 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.
• Healthy Families Active Youth Rural Health Care Services Outreach Project
  January 2007
  Healthy Families Active Youth is a health promotion and fitness project that targeted elementary school children and their parents in two towns in rural southwest Idaho to prevent and treat pediatric obesity.
• East Central Mental Health-Mental Retardation, Inc.
  January 2007
  East Central Mental Health-Mental Retardation, Inc., has initiated a partnership of community agencies committed to the development and implementation of a comprehensive, countywide health risk prevention and outreach project.
• Washington County Community Wellness Consortium
  January 2007
  The Washington County Community Wellness Consortium, a collaborative of agencies and health providers, has developed a small, multidisciplinary weight loss and fitness model program, the cornerstone of which is martial art taekwondo.