The Healthy Living Innovation Awards is a new HHS initiative designed to identify and acknowledge innovative health promotion projects within the last 3 years that have demonstrated a significant impact on the health status of a community. As a part of the Awards selection process interested private and public sector organizations will nominate themselves by completing an online form that asks several questions related to the project and the organization as a whole. The nomination form is designed to collect basic information (e.g. title of program, type of organization, contact information) and more specific information to determine innovation and replicability of the nominated programs (e.g. target audience, program participation, operating costs). The responses to these questions will be used to determine the best-qualified nominees for each award category (faith-based and/or community initiatives, health care delivery system, healthy work place large and small, non-profit, public sector, Let's Move Cities and Towns, and schools k-12).
This initiative uses Recovery Act funds and is specified in the Office of the Secretary's Spend Plan for the Prevention and Wellness section of the Recovery Act. Thus we are on a very strict and aggressive timeline for completion. Data collection must begin in December to have this process completed by late March. The project will provide an opportunity for HHS to increase public awareness of creative approaches to develop and expand innovative health promotion programs and duplicate successful strategies in various settings.
US Code:
42 USC 301
Name of Law: 241 Public Service Act
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