News in ‘2008’

The Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF) Board of Trustees has added two new members. New trustees include Dr. Christine Jablonski, an internist in Winter Park who recently established a new practice with an emphasis on wellness and geriatrics, and David Stanley, principal at the Winter Park Ninth Grade Center and a current member of the [...]

More than 75 people attended the Winter Park Health Foundation ((WPHF)-sponsored seminar, “Your Role in Building Healthy and Livable Communities,” the latest in a series of workshops that are part of the Think~Act~Be Healthy Communities Initiative. The program was held November 19. Designed to help residents and local community leaders, planners and developers better understand [...]

The Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF) recently received two prestigious awards—one statewide, and the second local—recognizing its decade-long efforts to boost the health of the area’s children and youth. They included the Sunshine State School Public Relations Association (SUNSPRA) Leading Light Award and the Dr. P. Phillips Champion of Youth Award presented by the Central [...]

Building on the success of the first phase of the Think~Act~Be Healthy Communities initiative, the Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF) is partnering with the Urban Land Institute-Central Florida and the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council to host a free workshop focused on building healthy and livable communities. The event, called “Your Role in Building [...]

The Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF) has approved a $25,000 grant to expand the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida’s Hi-Five Take Home Food Program to needy students in Hungerford and Cheney elementary schools. Under the program, launched as a pilot program in October 2006, students suffering from chronic hunger receive free food packs [...]