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East Side Neighborhood Development Company
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Rice County Growing Up Healthy Initiative
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Preventing Harm MN Healthy Homes Healthy Kids
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Photovoice

Growing Up Healthy in the Red River Valley used Photovoice as a research tool to document the concerns women in the area have about chemicals used in their homes and communities. This photo shows the chemical fog left behind after spraying for mosquitos. By documenting their own worlds and discussing with policy makers the images they produce, community people can initiate grassroots social change. Photo by LT

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Participants from White Earth

Women from the White Earth Reservation begin their photo journey. Photo by PM

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Spawning ammonia tanks

This mom and photographer expressed concern about how anhydrous ammonia tanks were being stored and how easily they could be stolen for making methamphetamine. Photo by PH

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Safer cleaning

Mothers and grandmothers participating in the Photovoice project shared their concerns about what kinds of cleaning products are used in homes and how they are used. They also learned about safer alternative products. Photo by SH

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Eating healthier

These berries were grown with no fertilizers or other chemicals. The Growing Up Healthy project emphasizes the health benefits of reducing chemical use in foods, especially for children. Photo by SH

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Growing your own

The mom that took this photo shared that her children are much more likely to eat vegetables when they grow their own. Photo by FA

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Carlton County Collaborative
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Healthy Legacy
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Young children need quality care and learning, and healthy, safe places to live and play. The grantmaking initiative that supports this work is Growing Up Healthy.

OVERVIEW

Where We're Working

Purpose
A healthy early childhood, from pre-birth through age five, sets the stage for a healthy, productive adulthood.

Impacts
Through this focus area, grantee organizations have improved the quality of housing, reduced children's exposures to harmful chemicals, increased readiness for kindergarten and increased children's access to healthy foods and safe places to play. 

Funding in 2011
$930,000
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Outcome Focus of Growing Up Healthy Grantees

Funded organizations work with community partners in four areas to improve health. 

TOTAL
37
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Number of Products and Stage of Development

Action plans, publications and tools developed that can be used by other communities to apply approaches and lessons learned.

TOTAL
72 products
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Minnesotans Reached/Influenced by Grantees

Significant progress has been made to increase awareness of the impact of social and economic influences on health.

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What shapes our health?

More than 50% of our health is influenced by social and economic factors.

TOTAL
100 %

PROGRAMS

Growing Up Healthy: Kids and Communities

Growing Up Healthy engages community health, early childhood development, housing and environmental organizations and other community partners to nurture the healthy growth and development of children birth to five years and their families.

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FEATURED

Healthy Homes, Healthy Kids

The Healthy Homes, Healthy Kids project improves children's health by improving the quality of rental housing in the Phillips neighborhood.

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Adverse Childhood Experiences Study

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