A grant program for Kansas School nurses
Healthy Habits for Life is a major grant-giving program of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation. It is offered to help school nurses address a current major health issue in Kansas and the nation: childhood obesity.
The Healthy Habits for Life program is offering a total of $40,000 in grants to assist school nurses in promoting healthy lifestyle choices to their students. The foundation will work with representatives from the Kansas School Nurse Organization in selecting worthy recipients.
The foundation recognizes that school nurses have a unique opportunity to teach students about healthy habits through curriculum and programs that reach them where they spend so much of their time: school. As a young, captive audience, students can be more easily influenced to develop life-long healthy habits and behaviors. The foundation hopes that curbing childhood obesity now will translate into healthy adults later, saving health care dollars for all Kansans.
About the Program
View a list of the 2009-10 winners.
View a list of 2008-09 winners and summaries of their programs.