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Keep ME Healthy
Purpose/Goals:
Keep
Me Healthy is the title of a tool kit developed by the Maine Youth
Overweight Collaborative. By providing the tools and resources
posted here, the Maine Center for Public Health seeks to provide practical support and
guidance to health care practices, organizations and individuals
across the state to help improve care and outcomes for overweight
and obese youth. These tools are a result of the hard work and support of
many individuals associated with the
Maine Youth Overweight
Collaborative (MYOC). We know that the problem of youth
overweight is an enormous and growing challenge for our communities,
our health care system and for those engaged in public health. It is
our hope to improve clinical practice and ultimately to improve
quality of life for youth and families through the MYOC.
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Funders:
2006—2009
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The Bingham Program is a
charitable endowment established in 1932 to promote health
and advance medicine in Maine. A major focus of The Bingham
Program has been to improve health service delivery in
Maine, particularly in rural areas.
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Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust
seeks to improve the welfare of the six state New England
region through grants in its four fields of interest:
education, the environment, health care, and the promotion
of philanthropy. |
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MaineHealth, the largest health
system in Maine is a nonprofit corporation devoted to
building a family of healthcare services offering high
quality, cost-efficient preventive care.
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Eastern Maine Healthcare’s
mission is to maintain and improve the health and well-being
of the people of Maine through a well-organized network of
local health care providers who together offer high quality,
cost-effective services to their communities.
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Betterment Fund was created for
charitable purposes by the will of the late William Bingham,
2nd, a resident of Bethel, Maine, who died in 1955. Mr.
Bingham was a self-effacing philanthropist with an abiding
interest in education and the improvement of health services
in the State of Maine. |
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Harvard Prevention Research
Center (HPRC) is one of 33 Prevention Research Centers (PRC)
funded by the national Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). Our mission is to work with community
partners to design, implement, and evaluate programs that
improve nutrition and physical activity, reduce overweight
and reduce chronic disease risk among children and youth.
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2004 - 2006
The
Maine Health Access Foundation (MeHAF), created in 2000, is the
state’s largest health care foundation. Their mission is to promote
affordable and timely access to comprehensive, quality health care
and seeks to improve the health of every Maine
resident. In particular, MeHAF targets strategies that serve the
medically uninsured and underserved.
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation’s mission is to prevent
illness and to promote health through medical education, research
and community service.
American Academy of Pediatrics Healthy People 2010 Grants award to
the Maine Chapter.
Harvard Prevention Research
Center (HPRC) is one of 33 Prevention Research Centers (PRC)
funded by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Our mission is to work with community
partners to design, implement, and evaluate programs that
improve nutrition and physical activity, reduce overweight
and reduce chronic disease risk among children and youth.
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