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Funding in Action

Each year, Get Healthy San Mateo County funds community based organizations, faith-based organizations, non-profits, public agencies, and schools to carry out placed-based primary prevention and healthy equity efforts. Our goal is to support efforts that prioritize health and equity by improving conditions for populations with limited opportunities to be healthy. 

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Giving Parents Tools to Tackle School Wellness Issues
Case Study: Family Engagement Institute

There is an old saying, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Thanks to her vision, passion and leadership, Robin Galas, Assistant Director of the Family Engagement Institute, took this concept into San Mateo County by not only teaching parents about how to improve their children’s health, but engaged them to take action that will continue to make their community a healthier place.

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Healthy Active Play Environments

Healthy Active Play Environments
Case Study: Fun Options to Promote Physical Activity Make Kids “HAPE”

Healthy Active Play Environments (HAPE) is run by Footsteps Childcare, Inc. and promotes ways to include physical activity in afterschool and childcare programs. HAPE also provides free training for afterschool and childcare staff on active play. Read the case study to learn more and watch the video below to catch HAPE in action!

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Collective Roots

Collective Roots

Collective Roots promotes social justice by developing “a community in which all people have access to gardens and fresh, healthy and environmentally sustainable food.” Collective Roots provided hands on training in gardening, nutrition, cooking, and healthy living to East Palo Alto residents in 2012 part of Free at Last, a community recovery center for substance abuse treatment and prevention services. The program also gave residents job skills training skills and income-earning opportunities by selling their produce at the East Palo Alto Community Farmer’s Market.

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Healthy Corner Store Makeover

Healthy Corner Store Makeover

Youth Leadership Institute’s Yo!Mateo youth completed two makeovers of local corner stores: Carniceria La Guadalupana (55 5th Ave in Redwood City) and La Peña (3198 Middlefield Road in Redwood City on corner of 5th Avenue). The corner store makeover program makes healthy food more visible, and unhealthy food less visible at these neighborhood markets. 

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The FEAST Study

The FEAST Study

Between 2012 and 2014, the FEAST Study: An Exploration of Food Environments used the Stanford Healthy Neighborhood Discovery Tool to examine their neighborhood food stores and what makes it easier or harder for older adults to be healthy in Northern San Mateo County.

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Youth Reaching Youth
Case Study: The HEAL Project

The Need: Complimentary Goals

Students who participate in Pilarcitos High School’s alternative education program in Half Moon Bay, California are academically behind for a variety of reasons. The hurdles many of these students face include: childhood trauma, full-time jobs, undiagnosed learning disabilities, pregnancy and parenthood, and—on top of all that—English is commonly their second language.