NYSHealth Initiative for
Obesity Prevention
A Funder’s Perspective
DASH-NY Coalition Conference
Community Partnerships to End
Obesity Disparities
March 22, 2013
Overview
• About NYSHealth
• About NYSHealth Diabetes Campaign
• Past and current grants toward obesity prevention
• Future direction in diabetes prevention
• Guiding principles in grantmaking
Who We Are
• Private, not-for-profit grantmaking foundation focused
on health
• Work in all regions of New York State, in three
primary areas – expanding health care coverage,
improving diabetes prevention, and advancing primary
care
• Also support projects outside of those three areas to
ensure that we can be responsive to community needs
and ideas
NYSHealth Diabetes Campaign
• NYSHealth’s strategy :
o Improve the way PCPs manage the care of people
with diabetes
 Goal: 3000 PCPs achieve NCQA DRP Recognition
o Develop sustainable community-based prevention and
management initiatives
o Promote payment approaches and public policies that
create incentives and support initiatives to improve
both clinical care and prevention programs
Past Obesity Prevention Grants
Faith-Based Diabetes Initiative
Seton Health’s Defy Diabetes Initiative, 2007
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Trained and deployed six Faith Community parish
nurses into six target communities to work with
diabetics and at-risk individuals to make modest
lifestyle changes to prevent or delay the onset of Type
2 diabetes
Engaged 25 PCPs to achieve ADA guidelines and
NCQA certification
Institute for Leadership’s Faith Fights Diabetes Initiative
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Developed and led a strategy to spread Defy Diabetes in
congregations across New York State
Trained over 250 CHWs to offer a 6-week diabetes selfmanagement and prevention program in places of
worship
Implemented 216 of these programs in high-risk and
low-income neighborhoods
Past Obesity Prevention Grants
Community-Based Interventions
(In Our Early Days)
The Bronx Nutrition and Fitness Initiative for
Teens (B’N Fit), 2006
Expanded a youth obesity program from a hospital
setting to Moshulu Community Center, Bronx,
reaching youth with undiagnosed health problems
beyond a hospital-based model
KIDS WIN! Child Health Project for Obesity
Prevention, 2008
Kick-started a multi-year after-school and summer
program dedicated to help shape children’s
understanding, choices and behavior related to
nutrition and fitness in 5 Syracuse community centers
Cooking for Healthy Communities, 2010
Provided training to UNH member agencies to prepare
fresher, healthier meals for neighborhoods at greatest
risk of diet-related diseases
Past Obesity Prevention Grants
Diabetes Prevention Program
YMCA Y-DPP Initiative, 2010
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Invested in a statewide strategy to
replicate the YMCA Y-DPP program,
an adaptation of the national Diabetes
Prevention Program – an evidencebased intervention that helps people
with prediabetes lose 5-7% of their
body weight, reducing their risk of
diabetes by nearly 60%
Supported 14 YMCA sites across 10
regions of the State to develop capacity
to offer the Y-DPP
Future Direction in Diabetes Prevention
• Scale proven community-based diabetes
prevention programs that will reach
people where they live, work and
worship
o Align additional funders and
stakeholders to expand the DPP across
NYS with the potential capacity to serve
400,000 people within the next five years
• Inform public policy to advance
prevention efforts throughout the State
• Leverage private and public resources to
build the evidence for effective
prevention efforts
Current Obesity Prevention Grants
Informing Public Policy
CU Mailman School of Public Health, 2008
Evaluation of changes in food consumption patterns,
physical activity and BMI in children participating
in the WIC program
Fund for Public Health in New York, 2009
Assessment of NYC population sodium intake for
evaluation of an ongoing, national intervention to
reduce amount of sodium in processed and
restaurant foods
NYU School of Medicine, 2012
Impact evaluation of NYC sugar sweetened
beverage policy on calorie purchasing and
consumptions at fast food restaurant
Guiding Principles in Grantmaking
• Pursue measurable, time-limited objectives
• Be statewide in focus with special emphasis on
vulnerable communities
• Identify and invest in programs with sustainable and
replicable prospects
• Leverage private and public resources to maximize
impact of our grant support