Creating healthy environments to live, learn, work and play

Our Purpose

The New Jersey Healthy Communities Network (NJHCN) Community Grants Program brings together local, regional and statewide leaders to support communities in developing healthy environments for people to live, work, learn and play.

Grantee Blogs

Boilermaker’s Brew Café ~ A simulated business model

August 3, 2021

City: Garfield

Grantee: City of Garfield

Strategy: Social Determinants of Health SD

A Hiking We Will Go: Family Promise Makes Family Fitness a Priority

July 28, 2021

City: Elizabeth

Grantee: Overlook Family Medicine - Family Promise Union County Health Education Partnership

Strategy: Enhance Physical Activity Access AL#2 Social Determinants of Health SD

Victory Gardens Count

July 26, 2021

City: Audubon

Grantee: Borough of Audubon

Strategy: Enhance Physical Activity Access AL#2 Healthy Eating Audit HE#1

Meet and Greet and Eat!

July 26, 2021

City: Audubon

Grantee: Borough of Audubon

Strategy: Healthy Eating Audit HE#1

Closing the Year- Summer Meals in Paterson and Youth Enrichment

July 24, 2021

City: Paterson

Grantee: United Way of Passaic County

Strategy: Social Determinants of Health SD

Collaborating for a Healthy, Inclusive Trenton

July 23, 2021

City: Trenton

Grantee: Trenton Health Team

Strategy: Active Living Audit AL#1 Healthy Eating Audit HE#1

Touring and Celebrating!

July 21, 2021

City: Freehold Borough

Grantee: VNACJ

Strategy: Social Determinants of Health SD

Let’s Move! Roll the Dice!

July 20, 2021

City: Bridgeton

Grantee: Bridgeton Board of Education

Strategy: Active Living in Early Childhood Education ECE AL#2

Essex County Department of Health

July 14, 2021

City: Bloomfield Caldwell East Orange Irvington Montclair Newark Nutley West Orange

Grantee: Essex County Health Department

Strategy: Active Living Audit AL#1 Physical Activity Outside PE SCH AL#1 Social Determinants of Health SD

Breaking the Digital Divide

July 13, 2021

City: Garfield

Grantee: City of Garfield

Strategy: Social Determinants of Health SD

EJ Workshop for Camden Teens

July 13, 2021

City: Camden

Grantee: Center for Environmental Transformation (CFET)

Strategy: Social Determinants of Health SD

Feedback and Development

July 13, 2021

City: Asbury Park New Brunswick Ocean County Trenton

Grantee: Family Resource Network

Strategy: Federal Child Nutrition Programs HE#4 Healthy Eating Audit HE#1

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