The 2011 Healthy Living Innovation Awards represented an exciting chance to foster the spread of effective, community-based efforts that employ innovative approaches to promote healthy weight, physical activity and nutrition. Communities across the United States submitted creative, replicable and sustainable innovations that demonstrate outstanding leadership and promising results.
Congratulations to the eight award winners!
Taking the YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program to Scale
Faith-Based and/or Community Initiatives
Healthy Howard Health Coaching
Health Care Delivery
Shape up and Go! (Large employer)
Healthy Workplace
Healthy Living Partnership Project (Small Employer)
Healthy Workplace
Healthy NC Hospitals Initiative: Healthy Food Environment Project
Non-Profit
Exercise Your Right to Feel Better Minnesota
Public Sector
Mornings in Motion
Schools (K-12)
Shape Up Somerville
Let’s Move Cities and Towns
Visit http://healthylivinginnovation.challenge.gov/ to learn more about the Healthy Living Innovation Awards winners. Winners will receive awards from the Secretary of Health and Human Services at a public recognition ceremony, and will have the opportunity to present their innovations at a national conference in 2011.