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First Responders: Youth Addressing Childhood Obesity Through Service-Learning

Healthy Futures

The Corporation for National and Community Service's 2011-2015 Strategic Plan includes a focus on healthy futures, with the objective to:

Increase seniors' ability to remain in their own homes with the same or improved quality of life for as long as possible
Increase physical activity and improve nutrition in youth with the purpose of reducing childhood obesity
Improve access to primary and preventive health care for communities served by CNCS-supported programs (access to health care)

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NSLC Library Items

Innovative Solutions; Engaging Non-Traditional Partners to Reduce Health Disparities (2008), Martha Monroy, Cecilia Rosales, Mary Kathryn Coe, and Jill Guernsey de Zapien (PDF)
First Responders: Youth Addressing Childhood Obesity Through Service-Learning (n.d.), Youth Service America (PDF)
Community-Based Health Education Intervention: A Service-Learning Approach (2008), Srijana M. Bajracharya (PDF)

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