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New Brunswick Community Health Assessment
With support from Johnson & Johnson, Rutgers Center
for State Health Policy conducted a health
assessment of 600 households, key informant
interviews and resident focus groups, to identify
the city’s key health needs. Released in April 2006
at the Healthier Kids & Families Conference, the
assessment identifi ed access to medical and dental
services as the top issues for the task force to
address.
Healthier New Brunswick 2010—Community Capacity Building Grants
In 2006, two community based programs developed with
grants from the Rutgers Community Health Foundation.
One was the Get Fit with Mt. Zion Project aimed at
obesity prevention and promotion of physical
activity for children and adults served by the Mt.
Zion AME Community Development Corporation. The
other was the Safe Harvests Gardening Project, a
collaboration among the Second Ward Neighborhood
Block Club and Crime Watch Group, Community Health
and Environmental Coalition of New Brunswick, a
Suydam Street Gardeners Community and New Brunswick
Lead Coalition. |
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Healthier New Brunswick 2010 Core Project Grants
With funding by the Rutgers Community Health
Foundation, grants were awarded on a competitive
basis for three core projects.
• New Brunswick Domestic Violence Awareness
Coalition. In March 2006, the Coalition received the
Connie Woodruff and Wynona M. Lipman Awards for
Outstanding Recognition of Services to Women by a
Community Organization. The Awards were sponsored by
the State Department of Community Affairs Division
on Women and The New Jersey Advisory Commission on
the Status of Women
• New Brunswick Lead Coalition, with its goal of
reducing the number of children in New Brunswick
exposed to lead. The program identifi es sources of
lead, raises community awareness and mobilizes
organizations to increase education, outreach,
screening and remediation efforts. The program
received a national recognition award from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
• Get Fit! New Brunswick Coalition’s Parent
Nutrition Project led by the Food Stamp Nutrition
Education Program of the Rutgers Cooperation
Extension-Middlesex County. The project targets
parents in five New Brunswick Abbott Preschool
programs, with 75 families attending workshops. |
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New Brunswick Community Interpreters Project
Spanish/English bilingual students attending Rutgers
University are trained on how to interpret medical
terms and then are placed at three sites at the
Chandler Health Center, Saint Peter’s University
Hospital and Robert Wood Johnson University
Hospital. The goal is to improve quality of health
care for patients who have limited English profi
ciency. Since the program began in the fall of 1999,
some 60,000 interpretation encounters have taken
place, with over 14,000 in 2006 alone.
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