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Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children ProgramThe Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children promotes child health by encouraging communities to enhance prevention programs and to make health care for every child more accessible. Healthy Tomorrows stimulates innovative community-based programs that employ prevention strategies to promote access to health care for mothers and children. Healthy Tomorrows began in 1989 as a collaborative grant program funded and administered by the HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). To date, 136 projects (with five-year project periods) have been funded annually by MCHB at $50,000. Projects in 44 States, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico gave been funded as Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS) and Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS) under Title V of the Social Security Act. Healthy Tomorrows grants have been awarded to a wide variety of organizations, including, but not limited to, medical centers, schools, local foundations and nonprofit agencies, community-based clinics, community health centers, hospitals, and local and State health departments. Activities The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program supports the development of family-centered, community-based initiatives that:
Topic areas of initiatives funded since 1989 include, but are not limited to the following:
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