Bronx Health REACH e-blast – Please share with others who may be interested!

 

#BodegaSnax #HealthSwag Contest – Now through September 10^th

Bronx Health REACH has launched a new contest to promote healthy snacks in bodegas.  Over the next four weeks, @HealthSwag will post a photo of a new healthy snack to find at a local bodega.  Contestants must take photos of the healthy snack and tag both #Healthswag and #BodegaSnax on either Facebook or Instagram.  From these photos, we will select weekly winners and a grand prize winner.  Weekly winners will receive Yankees gear and their photo will be reposted and receive a shout out on Instagram and Bronx Health REACH’s Facebook page.  During the week of September 2^nd, we will choose five finalist photos from the previous four weeks and re-post them on Instagram and Facebook. Whichever photo gets the most likes throughout the week will win 2 Yankees tickets. This contest is being sponsored by the Partnership for a Healthier Bronx at Bronx Health REACH/Institute for Family Health, the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council and Apogee Media.

 

Please help us spread the word about this contest! This week’s healthy snack is cut up fruit. We have postcards and posters available in English and Spanish and would love for you to help us promote healthy snacks online and in your community. Also, make sure to follow the contest on Instagram and our Facebook page.  Please contact Emma Rodgers at [log in to unmask] or 212-633-0800 x1249 if you have any questions or would like postcards or posters.

 

 

Take Action to Protect REACH Funding 

Please take a few minutes to thank the Senate for restoring the Racial and Ethnic to Community Health (REACH) Program funds and urge the House to support the same level of funding by signing onto the attached letter today!  The Administration’s budget zeroed out funding for the REACH program, and the Senate has taken action to restore these funds to FY 2012 levels.  The House has yet to act, but we want to encourage them to support the same level as the Senate.

 

As a REACH partner and community site helping to make healthy living available to ALL, we are hoping you will sign onto this letter and you will help us secure other community-based organizations to sign-on their name.  We are hoping to get as many organizations as possible to sign on to the letter by September 6^th.  To sign on your organization please email [log in to unmask] and please include the full name of your organization and a contact person.  We will circulate a final letter with all signatures after the September 6^th deadline.

 

As a reminder, federal funds cannot be used to lobby; therefore, staff who are 100% fully funded by a federal grant, like REACH, cannot engage in lobbying activities. Please be sure that the person in the organization that forwards this email out to your community partners to secure organizational sign-on to this letter is not someone fully-funded under a federal grant, but that has other salary supported by the organization or is someone else entirely. 

 

 

Mayoral Food Policy Platform

The next mayor has an unprecedented opportunity to realize the transformative potential of food policy to drive economic growth, improve healthy eating, reduce obesity, and promote local agricultural sustainability. Through improving school food, reducing hunger, expanding access to healthy food through retail and community groups, preserving local agriculture, and supporting food workers, the next Mayor can go a long way towards improving the food system in New York City.  Please find attached a food policy platform for the Mayoral race, and spread the word. For more information and to add your organization to the list of supporters, please email [log in to unmask].

 

Keep On Track: A Community-Based Blood Pressure Monitoring Program

The New York City Department of Health (DOHMH) is interested in partnering with faith and community organizations to launch and sustain routine blood pressure monitoring and counseling programs.  The Health Department provides, for free, training and materials for monitoring blood pressure, teaching about hypertension, and explaining how to motivate people to make healthy choices that will protect them from heart attacks and strokes. They have also partnered with a software vendor to develop the Community Health Dashboard, a system that can record results of blood pressure screenings in a secure database. Please see attached flyers for more information.

 

Interdenominational Women’s Conference – August 10^th

10:00am-2:00pm || 1314 Southern Blvd. & Freeman Street, Bronx, NY 10459

Join Bronx Deliverance Center of Faith Church for the 7th Annual Authors’ Forum, “Voices From The Throne Room.”  Featured Authors include Sis. Kim Forrest, Sis. Rolanda Pyle, Rev. Kevin Hodge, Pastor Tonia Jenkins, and Prof. Maureen Brown Phillips.  Refreshments will be served!  There is a $10.00 suggested donation. Please see attached flyer and RSVP to Deacon Joseph Ellis at 1-917-293-4247. 

 

Phys Ed Plus Charity 5K Run/Walk – August 17^th
8:30AM – 12:30PM || Riverside Park (103^rd St & Riverside Dr.)
Join Phys Ed Plus (PEP) on August 17th for a morning of physical activity! This family-oriented charity 5K Run/Walk will benefit physical education programs for children in Harlem schools. Did you know that 96% of New York City elementary schools fail to meet the mandate for 120 minutes a week of physical education? The money raised from this event will help PEP work with Harlem schools to meet the mandate, and help kids become healthier and happier.

Register now. Kids under 12 FREE!

 

50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. March to Washington DC - August 24^th
Concerned about voter’s rights, jobs, education, economic justice, and criminal justice? Join The Bronx Clergy Roundtable, The New York City Clergy Roundtable, National Action Network, and the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA) for a march to Washington D.C. Continue Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy to fight for your civil rights!

Buses leave from South Bronx (199 Lincoln Ave), North Bronx (1015 E. Gun Hill Rd), and West Bronx (14 W 170th St). $55 per passenger roundtrip. For more information call (718)-231-1033 or email [log in to unmask].

 

Morrisania WIC Healthy Lifestyles Fair – August 28^th
11AM - 3:30PM || 1225 Gerard Ave (between 167th and 168th St), Bronx, NY 10452
Bring your family to the Morrisania WIC Healthy Lifestyles Fair featuring music, face painting, games, cookshops, Fit WIC, prizes, and more! This huge event reaches approximately 2,000 residents from local communities. For more information call (718)-960-2805/2779.

 

Heights Community Farmers’ Market – Thursdays
University Ave & West 181st Street (at the corner of Aqueduct Walk)
Fresh fruit, veggies and herbs are available for purchase every Thursday from 9 AM – 3 PM. The market accepts cash, debit and credit cards, EBT/SNAP, WIC, FMNP Coupons & Health Bucks.  Leave It Better t-shirts & American Meat DVDs will also be available for purchase at the market!  The Heights Community Farmers Market is sponsored by Bronxworks and is part of Just Food's City Farms Network of community run farmers markets.  For more information on the City Farms Program please visit: http://justfood.org/city-farms

 

Lunch for Learning Campaign

Help children learn!  Make healthy school meals free for every New York City student!  Lunch for Learning is a new campaign for free and healthy school meals for all New York City public school students.  By making school lunch free for everyone, Community Food Advocates and others hope to attract more students from all income levels to eat the school lunch thus allowing schools to offer healthier, more attractive meals of greater variety to students.  The additional $20 million in city investment would result in 120,000 additional students eating school lunch, bringing in $59 million of additional federal and state funding and creating 1,000 new jobs. You can sign on to the campaign here or contact Liz Accles, Community Food Advocates at [log in to unmask] or call 212-697-2323 ext 257 for more information. 

 

Please remember to send information about your upcoming programs, initiatives, or events that you would like to include in future e-blasts, to Kelly Moltzen at [log in to unmask]

 

Thank you,

the Bronx Health REACH staff

(212) 633-0800 x 1232

www.bronxhealthreach.org

 

     

 

Bronx Health REACH is an initiative of the Institute for Family Health.

 

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