NPAO Local Implementation Grants: 13 counties have been awarded Local Implementation Grants and are getting started with a variety of projects including:
- Buffalo and Pepin counties are working together on a planning grant to create a unified bi-county nutrition and physical activity coaliton. The counties have collaborated successfully in the past and share rural characteristics.
- In an effort to increase healthy adult role models in their communities, Waupaca County's NuAct Coalition is expanding its Working on Wellness effort with businesses and adults in their places of work. The project will survey past participants to determine successful components of the Wisconsin Worksite Wellness Toolkit and how it contributed to their companies' successful wellness plan, then use the data to improve their facilitation of the toolkit use in other businesses.
Communities Putting Prevention to Work
Active Schools: 21 school sites across the state are piloting strategies from the Active School Toolkit to offer 60+ minutes of physical activity a day.
- Deerfield's Active Schools efforts made the news in early October with an activity that brought 400 people out to walk for an hour with pedometers prior to a high school football game.
- Osceola Middle School and Oakfield Elementary School have begun implementing Active Recess strategies and have reported postive responses from students.
- The Department of Public Instruction held workshops in October on Creating an Active Recess and Increasing Activity in the Classroom.
Active Early: Promoting Physical Activity in Early Care and Education Baseline data was collected in October at the 20 child care sites that are piloting strategies to incorporate 120 minutes of physical activity each day. Providers will be trained in November on how to use the Active Early Toolkit: Promoting Physical Activity in Early Care and Education.
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