The Weller Health Education Center announces the appointment of Joe Webster as Director of Education. Webster taught elementary health and physical education in the Allentown School District and is also an assistant sprinting coach for DeSales University.
This is the third year the Weller Center and the Aetna Foundation have partnered to help Lehigh Valley children and their families combat obesity and improve their quality of life by educating them about the importance of good nutrition and instilling life-long healthy behaviors.
Through a $50,000 grant from the Aetna Foundation, the Weller Health Education Center will provide a comprehensive, community-based nutrition and fitness program, Niños en Acción, for families and children in Easton, Pennsylvania, with the goal to reduce and prevent childhood obesity and improve overall health and wellness of Easton residents.
The press is invited to attend the first program at Shawnee Elementary School, 1315 Echo Trail, Easton, PA at 10:00 on Monday, December 19, 2011.
The program was developed by Dr. Karen Swartz, Clinical Programs Director at the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center and has been taught to 20,000 students nationwide. Schools can apply to receive the program by completing an application on the Weller Center’s website. Visit http://www.wellercenter.org/OUR-PROGRAMS/Grant-Opportunities.aspx for eligibility requirements and to download an application form. Applications must be received by December 31, 2011.
As part of its support for the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project, Aetnaannounced that it has created a national recognition campaign called “Aetna Voices of Health.” The campaign will honor organizations that promote King’s vision of racial equality and individual empowerment, while also sharing Aetna’s goals of closing racial and ethnic health care quality gaps and helping people live healthier lives.
Verizon Foundation grant will help jumpstart this pilot to educate teachers, parents and students in Boyertown community.
The Weller Health Education Center is pleased to announce a grant from Verizon Foundation to help develop a comprehensive parent education workshop on Internet safety with an emphasis on cyberbullying. Subsequently, a Web-based training program will be created to teach school district personnel and parents to effectively facilitate this workshop in their school or district.
The Weller Health Education Center will honor individuals who have gone above and beyond to make a significant and positive impact on the health and well-being of children in our region at the ninth annual Outstanding Friend to Kids Awards ceremony.
The Weller Health Education Center has selected the honorees for its ninth annual Outstanding Friend to Kids Awards ceremony to be held Thursday, September 22, 2011, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the PBS39 Broadcast Center at SteelStacks, Bethlehem, PA. These awards are given to individuals and organizations that have gone above and beyond to make a significant and positive impact on the health and well-being of children.
Through a grant from the Women’s 5K Classic, the Weller Health Education Center will present the program, “Better Start Early,” to over 1,000 students in area high schools this spring.
Through a $50,000 grant from the Aetna Foundation, the Weller Health Education Center is providing a comprehensive, community-based nutrition and fitness program, Niños en Acción, for families and children in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with the goal to reduce and prevent childhood obesity and improve overall health and wellness of Bethlehem residents.
Children at one school are learning about the dangers of bullying. The Weller Health Education Center put on a bullying awareness and prevention program at Holy Family School in Nazareth.
This is the first run of the program, which will be offered to students across the Lehigh Valley over the next two weeks.
Through a grant from the Greater Lehigh Valley Auto Dealers Association (GLVADA), the Weller Health Education Center is providing bullying awareness and prevention programs in April for students in Northampton and Lehigh counties.