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Stories of Prevention Research

Read about the experiences of people involved in PRC projects.

Members of the Hope WORKS team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Prevention Research Center. Mini-Grants May Maximize Health in South Carolina
With the help of the University of South Carolina PRC, community groups have turned small grants into walking tracks in underserved areas of Sumter County. The community hopes to increase physical activity in the county, which has a high burden of chronic disease.

 
Members of the Hope WORKS team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Prevention Research Center. Sewing the Seeds of Good Health
The University of North Carolina PRC's Threads of HOPE project merges health and economic development. Unemployed women in a rural area are encouraged to build a business sewing conference bags and gain the motivation to address health behaviors.
 

 

 

 
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New Media Bridge the Harlem Health Divide
Researchers at the Harlem Health Promotion Center are using a multimedia approach to help bridge the digital divide and the health divide in New York City.
Members of the Center for Adolescent Health's Youth Advisory Committee
Love, Pictured: Love Through the Eyes of Baltimore Youth
Baltimore teenagers focused on love for a photo project published as a 2008 calendar by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Adolescent Health. Teens say the love in their lives promotes their health.
Cesar Santes Valencia picks a Valencia orange. The oranges are sent to juice factories.
Citrus Workers Focus on Eye Safety
Migrant orange pickers are working with the Florida Prevention Research Center to prevent eye injuries through safety glasses and education.
PEARLS Gives Seniors with Minor Depression New Hope
PEARLS Gives Seniors with Minor Depression New Hope
Seattle's Program to Encourage Active, Healthy Lives for Seniors teaches older adults behavior management techniques that lead to brighter days.
Family members of all ages work together to prepare vegetables and fruit for dinner during a Diabetes and the Family class.
Families on the Border Join the Fight Against Diabetes
People are coming together in an Arizona region where diabetes is well above the national average to prove that staying healthy is a family and community affair.
Tracy Dawson-Greene sets out healthy snacks for her 7th grade class at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Florence, Massachusetts, after a Planet Health lesson on nutrition.
Reading, Writing, and Reducing Obesity
Planet Health program developed at Harvard Prevention Research Center combines physical activity and nutrition lessons with middle school academic subjects.
New Orleans residents struggle with debris on their streets as the city tries to put itself back together one year after Hurricane Katrina. The Tulane Prevention Research Center wants to help rebuild the city in a better, healthier way.
Building a Healthier New Orleans
One year after Hurricane Katrina, the Tulane Prevention Research Center is working hard to ensure that a rebuilt New Orleans is known for its culture, not its chronic diseases.
Photo of Mary and Morgan Spearen discussing their N-O-T experiences.
Not On Tobacco
West Virginia’s Not-On-Tobacco intervention has helped thousands of high school students quit smoking. Two sisters share their story.
Photo of Doris Smith walking with Vee Stalker.
Community Health Advisors Light Up Alabama’s Black Belt
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Center for Health Promotion is training community health advisors in an area of Alabama—the Black Belt—where the diabetes and obesity rates are high and income levels are low.
Photo of Charlesetta McDowell leading an EnhanceFitness class.
University of Washington PRC Intervention Wins National Award
A proven intervention that originated in one of CDC’s Prevention Research Centers earned national recognition in October 2005 for improving health and physical performance in older adults.
 

 

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Page last reviewed: November 14, 2007
Page last modified: June 20, 2008
Content source: Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
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