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On May 25, our Partner meeting featured speakers from North Carolina Alliance for Health, NC Child, and the Justus Warren Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Task Force, who shared the work that they do to promote and advocate for health and wellness through policy change. Each speaker reminded us of the importance of bringing local… Read more »

From January 2022 – April 2022, we welcomed nine new partners to the Eat Smart, Move More NC movement! New partners join the movement simply by completing the Partner Information Form on the Eat Smart, Move More NC website. We are always excited to welcome new partners, so please help us spread the word. Many… Read more »

In 2020, the Poe Center for Health Education contacted the Fuquay-Varina Chamber of Commerce to learn more about the local grower’s market, and why it had closed its doors in 2018. After learning more about the market’s history, and establishing an interest in the area for its reopening, a team from the Poe Center collaborated… Read more »

Effective June 6, 2022, NC WIC is making even more formula brands and types available to WIC families that can be purchased at the store when approved Gerber products are not readily available. These changes will help families buy the formula that is available in stores throughout the shortage. For more information, click here. Submitted… Read more »

Dear Eat Smart, Move More NC Partners As the end of the year draws to a close, so does my term as Chair of the Eat Smart, Move More NC movement. Serving in this role has been an honor, as well as a source of growth and inspiration for me thanks to the commitment and… Read more »

The most recent Eat Smart, Move More NC Partners Meeting was held on December 2. We were very fortunate to hear from such an amazing panel of experts on their work as it relates to Creating Equitable Opportunities for Physical Activity. To read more about each panelist: Deepti Adlakha and Dr. Nilda Cosco with Natural… Read more »

The Wilkes Community Partnership for Children has been part of several health initiatives over the years that encourage young children to move more during their day.  When you take a look at a typical outdoor space at a school or child care center you may notice how many children are actually sedentary.  Even though they… Read more »

On Wednesday, October 6th, schools, neighborhoods, and families came together from areas all across the country to celebrate National Walk to School Day and to promote the importance of being physically active. From its beginning in 1997, National Walk to School Day has been an important way to promote and improve the safety and accessibility… Read more »

In North Carolina’s Plan to Prevent Overweight and Obesity: Balance How We Eat, Drink, and Move, strategies to prevent obesity are organized by setting. For the School setting, one strategy is to “implement policies to enhance infrastructure that supports bicycling and walking to school.” On a wet and overcast Friday in October (October 8, 2021),… Read more »

Healthy Aging NC (HANC) is North Carolina’s statewide resource center for evidence-based community health programs. We connect people to the programs and agencies that improve community health, increase the capacity of providers to offer these programs, maintain a website with current program information and online registration systems, and collect and analyze data to report results.… Read more »