West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition Archive

To expand Try This West Virginia’s efforts to address substance abuse, obesity, and youth engagement

To expand the services and geographic reach of the Center for Woman’s Entrepreneurship

To create a middle school simulated workplace program that enables students to explore careers and make informed high school course selections

To support commercial real estate redevelopment projects through targeted technical assistance, predevelopment services and financing (over three years)

For building environments to support healthy behavior modifications and to test community interventions

To develop local, state and federal funding and policy strategies which will accelerate demolition or rehabilitation of vacant and abandoned properties in communities throughout West Virginia

To support health improvement for rural people through education, professional learning opportunities, and organizational workforce planning (over two years)

To develop a set of college-credit math courses for high school seniors, to be team taught by high school and college faculty

To develop and manage community-owned broadband infrastructure in Williamson and Gilbert, West Virginia to assist economic diversification (over two years)

For a partnership with the Carnegie Mellon University CREATE Lab to develop socially-relevant applications of educational technology in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio schools and teacher preparation programs