Archive for January, 2010

Greenville and Spartanburg Selected for National Program to Fight Childhood Obesity

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Activate Upstate in Greenville and Partners for Active Living, Hub City Farmers? Market, in partnership with Spartanburg?s Childhood Obesity Taskforce in Spartanburg, have each been awarded a 4-year $360,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to improve opportunities for physical activity and access to affordable healthy foods for children and families in communities [...]

SC Breastfeeding Coalition first recipients of the Breastfeeding in the Workplace Pilot Grant

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

The SC Breastfeeding Coalition, in collaboration with Eat Smart, Move More…SC, recognized the first recipients of the Breastfeeding in the Workplace Pilot Grants for lactation support. The following organizations successfully completed the 2009 Grant Program:

Lander University, Greenwood, SC
Palmetto Health Baptist Easley
Piedmont Medical Center

Each site established a private space for mothers to breastfeed or pump [...]

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2010 Obesity Prevention Summit

Building Leadership for Healthy Communities

Join Eat Smart, Move More SC for an education forum on obesity prevention in South Carolina. Presented in partnership with several statewide organizations, the event will provide an interactive and engaging look at best practices for obesity prevention with sessions on healthy worksites, schools and communities, grant writing, coalition development, policy and environmental change and more. If you are a professional in the area of public health, healthcare, education, nutrition, physical activity, the media or simply interested in what you can do in your community, plan to attend the 2010 SC Obesity Prevention Summit.

Click here to download presentations from the 2010 Summit.


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