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Learn more about CHDI's obesity prevention work.
Issue Brief 51: Ensuring Young Children Grow Up at a Healthy Weight: How Connecticut Can Catch Up to Other States
CHDI's policy brief on obesity prevention was based on research from UConn's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. Learn more about their work.
The Children’s Fund of Connecticut awarded $230,560 to fund four obesity prevention projects in Connecticut. The work will inform and advance efforts to prevent and reduce early childhood obesity by addressing risk factors in the first two years of life.
Four projects were selected from a competitive application process.
Click here for the news release about these awards.
The Child Health and Development Institute is a catalyst for improving the health, mental health and early care systems for children in Connecticut. We advance and inform improvements in primary and preventive pediatric health and mental health care programs, practice and policy in Connecticut, with particular focus on disadvantaged or underserved children and their families.
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