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Insurer's grant to help combat childhood obesity

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Staff Report 2:16 AM Saturday, October 17, 2009

UnitedHealth Group is offering grants to help Ohio students and educators combat childhood obesity through its UnitedHealth Heroes program.

UnitedHealth Heroes will award up to 20 grants, ranging from $500 to $1,000 each to schools and youth-focused, community center-based programs in Ohio. Grants will be awarded to programs that demonstrate a clear understanding of the health risks associated with childhood obesity; propose creative solutions to combating obesity in their schools and communities; and can be easily implemented, scaled and measured.

UnitedHealth Heroes is a service-learning, health literacy initiative designed to encourage young people, working through educators and youth leaders, to create and implement local hands-on programs to address the issue of childhood obesity.

To apply, visit www.ysa.org and click on the UnitedHealth HEROES link under Support – Get Funding or the UnitedHealth HEROES link under What’s New.

Applications must be submitted online before midnight Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.

Grant recipients will be notified in December and January.

Ohio’s 2008 grant recipients and programs included:

+ Miami University of Oxford – assisted students to encourage their peers to engage in sufficient physical activity during each gym period

+ After-School All-Stars of Columbus – started an All-Star Health and Fitness Day at the school

+ Children’s Hunger Alliance of Columbus – helped youth volunteers use social networking sites to craft tailored messages on health for the general public

+ Mount Union College of Alliance – aided health-education students to teach health and fitness mini-lessons to 3-5 year-old kids enrolled in the local Head Start program

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