Just in time for the beginning of the new school year, the Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF) has launched a newly revamped and more interactive Healthy Kids Today website—www.healthykidstoday.org. It’s called Healthy Kids Today Magazine and it features information on all of the WPHF-supported school-based health and wellness programs (part of the Coordinated Youth Initiative-CYI), [...]
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Healthy Habits for Life Initiative Expanding to 14 New Local Child Care Centers
Nemours’ Healthy Habits for Life: a Child Care Obesity Prevention initiative, which already has touched the lives of some 665 preschoolers in 14 child care centers in Winter Park, Maitland and Eatonville, is expanding into 14 additional local centers over the next year. The Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF), through its Children & Youth Work [...]
New Grant Supports Innovative Brain Health Initiative
The Winter Park Health Foundation has approved a two-year, $185,000 grant to the Alzheimer’s Association to support the launch of an innovative initiative designed to educate Central Floridians of all ages that it is never too early or late to protect their brains. Due to begin July 1, 2012, the project has three primary goals: [...]
New Bus at Eatonville Boys & Girls Club Will Open the Door to New Members
Eatonville youth will be able to spend more time at the newly rebuilt Boys & Girls Club of Central Florida-Joe R. Lee Branch, thanks to a 30-passenger bus to be purchased using a $55,379 grant approved by the Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF) through its Children & Youth Work Group. “The bus will allow 40 [...]
Nemours Expands Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative With Grant from WPHF
Nemours Children’s Hospital and the Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF)–with a little help from 50 wiggly preschoolers–today launched a childhood obesity prevention initiative in Eatonville, Maitland and Winter Park child care settings in hopes of growing a healthier generation. The expansion of this one-of-a-kind initiative into 14 child care centers in Winter Park, Eatonville and [...]
