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Voices for a
Healthy SouthCoast, a group that developed from an ACHIEVE
(Action
Communities for Health, Innovation, and EnVironmental
changE) grant to strengthen
community leadership, build capacity, and
activate change awarded to YMCA
Southcoast and Southcoast
Hospitals, invited Matthew Wall from the
Massachusetts Safe Routes to
School (SRTS) program to speak to representatives of area schools on
December 17, 2009, at St. Luke's Hospital. YMCA Southcoast VP of
operations Nancy Bonell and other members of the CHART
Team listened as representative of local school systems and the New
Bedford Chief of Police responded to Mr. Wall's presentation and shared
ideas for potential ways to increase the number of children walking or
bicycling to school. Additional presentations on ways of improving the
health status of Southcoast residents will be forthcoming in future
months. Click
here for photos of an earlier organizational meeting and here
for photos of a training in Alexandria, VA. For further
information about the project, contact
Nancy Bonell at
508-996-9622 X 25. |
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(Top row) Matthew Wall of MassRIDES Safe Routes to School program outlines the various aspects of the statewide program before Rick Paling of the Wareham Schools and Andrew O'Leary of the New Bedford Schools respond. (Middle row, left) Ms. Bonell solicits questions from member of the CHART Team. (Middle row, center) Mr. Wall displays a sample crossing guard vest that MassRIDES provides to schools that participate in the Safe Routes program as Nancy and New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park superintendent Jennifer Nersesian look on. (Middle row, right) Rick Porter of the Dartmouth Schools listens as Amanda Szot of the Southcoast Hospital Group Cardiovascular Prevention Program shares her thoughts about the value of increasing exercise among students. (Bottom row, left) New Bedford Police Chief Ronald Teachman describes a program that operates out of the Gifts to Give program to repair bicycles for New Bedford children. (Bottom row, center) CHART Team co-chair Donna Querim and team members Ray Khalife, Senior Planner for the City of New Bedford and Helena Marques of the Immigrants Assistance Center participate in the discussion. (Bottom row, right) Nancy Juvinall or Old Rochester Regional Schools listens as New Bedford Mass In Motion coordinator Pauline Hamel suggest some ways of getting the Safe Routes program going in the City. |
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