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periodically to our web page Implications
of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act for Arkansans.
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Arkansas Coalition for
Obesity Prevention (ArCOP) Now Accepting
Applications for Growing Healthy Communities
Grants
Following a
successful launch in March 2010, ArCOP will
expand its Growing Healthy Communities program to
help an additional five Arkansas communities
with training and resources to address obesity.
The Growing Healthy Communities initiative is a
partnership between ArCOP: the LifeStages Branch
of the Arkansas Department of Health; the
Winthrop Rockefeller Institute; the University
of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Fay W. Boozman
College of Public Health; and others. Last
year's grant recipients were, the Arkansas
Baptist College neighborhood of Little Rock,
Batesville, Harrison, Helena/West Helena, and
Magnolia. For more information and grant
application materials,
click here.
 The
2010
Growing
Healthy Communities Training
kicked off with a Town Hall meeting and
discussion, moderated by Dr. Joe Thompson, with
panelists: Paul Halverson, Director of the Arkansas
Department of Health; John Norquist, President
and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism;
Chip Johnson, Mayor of Hernando, MS; and Lisa
Sharma, Senior Associate, Youth Development with
the National League of Cities.
Other News
ACHI Director, Dr. Joe
Thompson, participates in panel discussion with
American Cancer Society Mid-South Division
ACHI Executive
Associate Director Named Assistant Dean at UAMS
College of Public Health
Arkansas Minority
Health Summit Includes Former U.S. Surgeons
General
U.S. Surgeon
General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, Visits ACHI
Dr. Joe Thompson Blogs
About the Recent White House Obesity Summit on
EquityBlog.
Arkansas Baptist College
Hosts Minority Health Month and Public Health
Week News Conference
North Little Rock
Celebrates Public Health Week at Location of New Argenta Market
Delta
Garden Study Breaks Ground
Arkansas Tobacco
Settlement Commission Joins the Movement to
Reverse Childhood Obesity
ACHI Director Appears on C-SPAN's Washington
Journal.
State Coverage
Initiatives Reports Release of New Brief On
Impact of
Health Reform on States
Michelle Obama to Fight
Child Obesity at Grass Roots
Boone
and Newton Counties Receive One of 41 Community
Grants From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities
Initiative.
Arkansas to Participate in
Safe Routes to School National Partnership's
2010-2011 State Network Project
ACHI Honors Long-Time
Friends and Welcomes New Annual Sponsor During
Annual Holiday Party
Senator
Blanche Lincoln Discusses Health Care
Reform with Governor's
Roundtable
on Health Care
ACHI's Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood
Obesity
Hosts
Healthy Kids, Healthy Nation: Reversing
the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
by 2015
ACHI Releases New Report:
The Impact of National Health Care Reform on
Arkansas
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity
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