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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Last year, Oregon was selected to send a state team to the national “Walkability Action Institute,” which provided a very useful opportunity
to gather evidence and best practices up with experts and spend time determining some strategic priorities to advance walking and walkability. The Institute is being repeated this spring, and this time applications are open to regions with Metropolitan Planning
Organizations (MPOs). If you are unsure if your area is part of a MPO region, please see the map at right for more info.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">If you would like to hear more about Oregon’s experience last year, please feel free to contact me (see below). Your liaison is always
a resource too! Thanks, Heather Gramp<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Announcement: Competitive Funding Assistance to Support Attendance at the Second Annual Walkability Action Institute<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><a href="https://chronicdisease.site-ym.com/news/264642/Metropolitan-Planning-Organization-Regions-Request-for-Funding-Assistance.htm">https://chronicdisease.site-ym.com/news/264642/Metropolitan-Planning-Organization-Regions-Request-for-Funding-Assistance.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion’s (NCCDPHP) Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO), seeks applications from Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) regions for competitive funding assistance to support attendance
at the second annual walkability action institute, entitled “Step It Up!: Action Institute to Increase Walking and Walkability,” which will take place in Atlanta, Georgia on April 26-28, 2016.<br>
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The purpose is to prepare interdisciplinary teams from MPO regions to pursue policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) supports for walking and walkability. This action institute will provide teams with the most up-to-date academic and applied learning methods,
and will reinforce and support implementation of significant national public health policy statements promoting walking and walkability, such as Step It Up! -- The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities (SGCTA).
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">NACDD and CDC are interested in applicant teams who can commit to all of the project deliverables outlined in this request for funding assistance (RFA)
and produce measurable PSE outcomes after attending the action institute.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">To submit a question about this application, please email Karma Edwards, the Walkability and Healthy Communities Project Lead, at
<a href="mailto:kedwards@chronicdisease.org">kedwards@chronicdisease.org</a>. All submitted questions will be compiled and answered within two business days on the FAQ list, and updated to the website.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Application Due Date:<b> January 22, 2016 by 11:59 ET
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Email:<b> Karma Edwards (<a href="mailto:kedwards@chronicdisease.org">kedwards@chronicdisease.org</a>)
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">For further information on the CDC DNPAO programs and efforts, please visit:
<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/">http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/</a>.
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">For further information on NACDD’s 2015 Healthy Community efforts, please visit:
<a href="http://www.chronicdisease.org/?ACHIEVE">http://www.chronicdisease.org/?ACHIEVE</a>.
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">For further information on the US SG CTA released in September 2015, please visit:
<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/walking/call-to-action/index.htm?s_cid=bb-dnpao-calltoaction-005">
http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/walking/call-to-action/index.htm?s_cid=bb-dnpao-calltoaction-005</a> and
<a href="http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/calls/walking-and-walkable-communities/index.html">
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/calls/walking-and-walkable-communities/index.html</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Heather Gramp, MPH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Policy Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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