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Awards
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Healthy Youth Places Project
PI: David Dzewaltowski, Ph.D.
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Purpose: to test the effectiveness of an initiative to increase and sustain
fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity in middle school students
Amount: $517,526 (multi-year contract $1.7 mil. total award)
Opportunities for Prevention and Education
Network of Kansas (OPEN-K)
PI: Elaine Johannes, Ph.D.
Description: to develop programs that benefit at-risk or underserved youth
and their families and to strengthen K-State Research and Extension's capacity
to serve traditionally underserved audiences
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Amount: $250,000 (multi-year contract $1.9 mil. total award)
Connect Kansas
PI: David Dzewaltowski, Ph.D.
Sponsor: Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Purpose: to create and sustain environments in which all Kansas children are
safe, connected, nurtured, and supported
Amount: $100,000
Evaluation of Community Health Intervention
Process
PI: David Dzewaltowski, Ph.D.
Sponsor: Kansas Health Foundation
Purpose: to evaluate the effectiveness of community health interventions
Amount: $99,694
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Ogden Youth Center
PI: Elaine Johannes
Sponsor: Ogden Youth Center
Purpose: to support Ogden Youth Center's efforts to be a healthy place for
Ogden youth (grades 6-12)
Amount: $400
Rural Stroke Prevention Project
PI: Judy Johnston
Sponsors: Kansas Department of Health
and Environment and United Methodist
Health Ministry Fund
Purpose: to prevent the incidence of stroke throughout Kansas
Amount: $125,000
CYFERNet Technology
PI: Roger Terry, Ph.D.
Sponsors: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Purpose: to maintain website
Amount: $30,124
Evaluating and Enhancing the REACH and
Dissemination of Health Promotion Interventions:
The Behavior Change Consortium
PI: David Dzewaltowski, Ph.D.
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Purpose: to determine the most effective ways to reach people with messages
that will cause them to adopt healthy behaviors
Amount: $32,000
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Kansas LEAN School Health Project:
Phase III
PI: David Dzewaltowski, Ph.D.
Sponsor: Kansas Department
of Health and Environment and the Kansas Health Foundation
Purpose: to evaluate a school intervention designed to build healthy places
in elementary schools and communities to promote healthy diets and physical
activity
Amount: $27,210
Coping with Arthritis: The
PANE Project
PI: Nancy Gyurcsik, Ph.D.
Sponsor: USDA/KSU Agriculture Experiment Station Grant
Purpose: to test the effectiveness of an aquatics program and a nutrition education
program for Kansans with arthritis and to teach faculty and staff methods for
expanding the reach of the programs
Amount: $19,500
Healthy Places for 4-H Youth Development
PI: Paul Estabrooks, Ph.D.
Sponsor: USDA/KSU Agriculture Experiment Station Grant
Purpose: to introduce interventions for increasing physical activity and positive
social skills among 4-H members and their families
Amount: $19,500
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