Laserfiche WebLink
<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Blue Cross announces funding for Active Community Design Funding /Page 2 <br /> <br />. City of Eden Prairie <br />. City of 51. Louis Park <br />. City of 51. Paul <br />. City of 51. Paul Park <br />. City of Two Harbors <br />. Ramsey County <br /> <br />The fonawing applicants WC"Te selected for Active Community Assessment & Engagement <br /> <br />funding. They will be working with community stakeholders about active Jiving principles and help them <br /> <br /> <br />apply those principles to their community planning processes. <br /> <br /> <br />. Arrowhead Regional Development Commission/Northeastern Minnesota Obesity Prevention <br /> <br /> <br />Project <br /> <br />. Dakota County <br />. Hennepin County <br /> <br />Active Community Planninf; and Active Community Assessment & Engagement funding is part of a <br /> <br />larger community funding initiative by Blue Cross' Prevention Minnesota. Communities on the Move <br /> <br /> <br />projects encourage regular physical activity among insufficiently active adults, and Communities for <br /> <br />Healthy Air projects support community-led efforts to reduce exposure lo secondhand smoke in the state. <br /> <br />Communities on the Move is still accepting proposals through September and plans to fund an additional <br /> <br /> <br />20-50 projects, Funding for all these programs in 2006 will total approximately 55,8 million, <br /> <br />Community funding complements Prevention Minnesota's other core strategies, which include <br /> <br /> <br />policy change, clinical initiatives, public awareness campaigns and outreach to high-risk groups. <br /> <br />Prevention Minnesota's broad-based approach fallows the strategic guidance of the Centers for Disease <br /> <br /> <br />Control and Prevention, which has cited community programs as an essential part of a comprehensive <br /> <br />health improvement program. <br /> <br /> <br />For more information visit w\Vw_Dreventionminncsoti:i.:~~9XD__ <br /> <br />Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, with headquarters in the St. Paul suburb of Ear;an, lvas <br />chartered in 1933 as A1innesota's first heal1h plan and continues to carry out its charter mission today: to promote <br />a lvider, more economical and timely availabili!y 0.1 health services for the people qli\1innesota. A not-jor-pro.fit, <br />taxable organization, Blue Cross is the largest health plan based in Minnesota, covering 2. 7 million members in <br />lr1innesota and nationally through its health plans or plans administered by its affiliated companies. Blue Cross and <br />Blue Shield of.Minnesota is an independent licensee oJ!he Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, headquartered <br />in Chicago. Go 10 lVlt/lv.bluecrossmncom to learn more about Blue Cross and Blue Shield ofAlinnesota. <br /> <br />~-30- <br />