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Steps Newsletter
Below,
you'll find the most recent issues of the newsletter, which provides
monthly updates on Steps Program happenings, community and partnership
activities, and upcoming conferences of interest. The newsletter is
written for Steps grantees and partners, divisions of CDC and the
Department of Health & Human Services, and others involved in chronic
disease prevention and health promotion.
JULY–SEPTEMBER 2008 ISSUE
Highlights:
- Spotlight on Several Steps Communities’ Activities
- Southeast Alaska Steps…Sitka Health Summits Spark Community Health
Planning
- Hillsborough County Steps…Efforts by “Students Working Against
Tobacco” Lead to Smoke-Free Policy at Zoo
- Pennsylvania Steps…E-Newsletter Promotes Importance of Chronic
Disease Prevention Activities
- Colorado Steps…Interactive Playground Technology Grant Helps
Battle Childhood Obesity
- Steps Program Office Update…Announcement of New Team Lead for
Translation and Dissemination
- New Public Health Campaigns…Encouraging African Americans and Members of Other
Minority Groups to Visit the Doctor Regularly
- Resource Highlight…The Community Health Workers’ Training Manual for
Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke
- Upcoming Conferences of Interest…For Steps Grantees and Partners
JUNE 2008 ISSUE
Highlights:
- Steps Program Office Message…In Memoriam
- July Steps Event…Program Managers Meeting in Atlanta
- Congratulations to Steps Grantees!
- Salinas Steps…Prestigious Health Campaign Awards
- Clark County Steps…National ‘Fit Pick’ Vending Program
- Cleveland Steps…Youth Marathon Program
- New Orleans Steps...High School Students Initiative
- Southeast Alaska Steps…Bicycle Friendly Community Award
- New York Steps…Taking its Message on the Road
- Austin, Arizona, and King County Steps...ACHIEVE Action Institute
Panelists
- Database Highlight…National Association of Counties’ Healthy
Counties
- Book Highlight…Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community
Wellbeing
- Upcoming Conferences of Interest…For Steps Grantees and Partners
MARCH–MAY 2008 ISSUE
Highlights:
- The 2008 Steps Grantees Action Institute…Steps Community Heroes
- New Resource…The Community Health Promotion Handbook: Action Guides to
Improve Community Health
- New Steps Program Resource…The Steps Program in Action: Success Stories
on Community Initiatives to Prevent Chronic Diseases
- Local Community Action…The 2008 Steps Program At A Glance Report
- Community Highlight…Pike County Scales Back ‘A Ton'
- Minnesota's Steps Program…March/April Newsletter
- The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) Promotes…“A Step in the
Right Direction: Lose Weight & Lower Your Risk for Type 2 Diabetes”
- Steps Program Office Updates…New Additions to the Team and New
Opportunities for Staff
- Upcoming Conferences of Interest…For Steps Grantees and Partners
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2008 ISSUE
Highlights:
- The 2008 Steps Grantees Action Institute…Nominations for Steps
Community Heroes
- ACHIEVE (Action Communities for Health, Innovation,
and EnVironmental ChangE) Initiative Launched
- NACCHO Compendium…Steps Community Success Stories
- SOPHE Special Issue…Lessons Learned from Steps, Pioneering Healthy
Communities, and Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health
(REACH) Programs
- Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs—2007
- Resource highlight…CDC Announces the Initial Release of the Health
Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT)
- Steps Program Office Updates…Team Name Changes
- Upcoming Conferences of Interest…For Steps Grantees and Partners
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2007 ISSUE
Highlights:
- Salinas–Monterey County’s accomplishments published in Preventing
Chronic Disease…"A Methodology for Evaluating Organizational Change in
Community-Based Chronic Disease Interventions"
- Success Stories from the YMCA/Steps Community Collaborative
Projects…A New Publication
- The Steps Program Discussed on an International Stage…The 2nd
National Social Marketing Conference in Oxford, England
- Save the Date!...Information about the Upcoming Grantee Meeting,
Towards a Sustainable Future for Community Health
- Steps Program Office updates…Announcement of New Steps Associate
Director and New Program Staff
- New Resource Alert…Prevention Institutes “Reducing Health Care Costs
Through Prevention”
- Upcoming Conferences of Interest…For Steps Grantees and Partners
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2007 ISSUE
Highlights:
- Seattle/King County Trans-Fat Ban Highlighting Steps
Efforts……Great Example of Policy Work!
- Pinellas County, FL…Rated First in the Nation by the
National School Lunch Report Card
- Medicare Prevention Bus Tour…..DeKalb County, Alabama,
and Pinellas/Hillsborough Community Visits
- Institute of Medicine Roundtable Meeting on Health
Disparities....... Steps Communities Well Represented
- Steps Program Office Updates……Steps Website (success
stories and heroes speeches) and Program Staff
- Change in Division Name…..Welcome to the “New” DNPA
- Heart Healthy and Stroke Free: A Social Environment
Handbook…..just published
- Oral Health’s How to Book…..New CDC Resource to States
on How to “Sell” Their Programs
- Upcoming Conferences of Interest....... For Steps
Grantees and Partners
JUNE/JULY 2007 ISSUE
MAY 2007 ISSUE
APRIL 2007 ISSUE
MARCH 2007 ISSUE
Page last reviewed: May 2, 2008
Page last modified: October 8, 2008
Content source: Division of Adult and
Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
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