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Kaiser Permanente Hawaii has announced $97,412 in grant funding in support of two community health initiatives aimed at promoting nutrition in schools and helping to feed low-income families, and a safety net effort to address childhood obesity.

Grants include:

* Hawaii Department of Education – $40,000 Grant

This community health initiative will promote nutrition in schools in alignment with the federal Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act.

Kaiser Permanente’s grant will help establish Hawaii’s first School Nutrition Assistance Association and training of 40 Hawaii School Food Authorities to improve nutrition in schools statewide.

* Hawaii Department of Labor & Industrial Relations (DLIR) and Hawaii Department of Human Services (DHS) and – $35,000 Grant

Kaiser Permanente’s grant promote increased utilization of the state’s SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program) benefits to put food on the tables of eligible low-income families through a collaboration involving DHS, DLIR, farmers markets, vendors and community partners.

* Accountable Healthcare Alliance of Rural Oahu – $22,412 Grant

Grant will support the implementation of the first collaborative pediatric project in Hawaii by optimizing the quality of services related to childhood obesity and associated health disparities through a partnership between Koolauloa Community Health and Wellness Center, Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, and Waimanalo Health Center.

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