Winners Gallery
Faith-Based and/or Community-based
Health Care Delivery
Public Sector
Let’s Move! Cities and Towns
Timeline
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Submission Period
Jan 1812:00AMESTTo
Mar 111:00PMEST -
Judging
Mar 212:00AMESTTo
Apr 1511:59PMEDT -
Public Voting
May 212:00AMEDTTo
May 3111:59PMEDT -
Winners Announced
Jul 1512:00AMEDT
Prizes
- Schools (K-12)
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Primary and secondary education-based/originated entities that support a health promotion innovation in at least one of the health promotion areas cited previously.
- Faith-Based and/or Community-based
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Religious organizations or community-base initiatives that support a non-religious health promotion innovation in at least one of the applicable health promotion areas and/or a like innovation open to all residents of a specified locality, regardless of funding source or sponsorship.
- Health Care Delivery
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Organizations involved in the provision of services, programs, and/or technologies directly related to healthcare services that support health promotion innovation in at least one of the health promotion areas cited previously.
- Healthy Workplace (2)
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Large Employer (500 or more employees) and Small Employer (Fewer than 500 employees) Organizations that support a worksite health promotion innovation in at least one of the health promotion areas cited previously.
- Non-Profit
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Nonprofit organizations that support a health promotion innovation in at least one of the health promotion areas cited previously. A non-profit organization is one that does not declare a profit and instead utilizes all revenue available after normal operating expenses in service to the public interest. It has a 501(c)(3) designation as defined by the Internal Revenue Service.
- Public Sector
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Local, county, state, territorial, or tribal government-based/funded entities that support a health promotion innovation in at least one of the health promotion areas cited previously. Federal Agencies are NOT eligible to apply.
- Let’s Move! Cities and Towns
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Mayors or elected officials that have answered the First Lady’s call to action to become a prospective Let’s Move City or Let’s Move Town and support a health promotion innovation in at least one of the health promotion areas cited previously. Nominees only need to specify measures developed to evaluate the performance of the innovation if results have not been collected.
About the Challenge
The Healthy Living Innovation Awards is a new HHS initiative designed to identify and acknowledge innovative health promotion projects within the last 3 years that have demonstrated a significant impact on the health status of a community. The initiative seeks to:
- Celebrate and share innovative health promotion practices across organizations, professions, and communities;
- Increase public awareness of creative approaches that can be used to develop and expand health promotion programs, and to replicate successful strategies in various settings;
- Encourage a culture of innovation, where creativity and cross-sectoral partnerships and knowledge-sharing are embraced, enabled, and enacted;
- Increase the number and diversity of individuals, organizations, and groups addressing community health promotion; and
- Encourage people to incorporate healthy living activities into their daily lives.
Eligible organizations must have an innovative project in at least one of three health promotion areas: healthy weight, physical activity, and nutrition. Awards will be granted within seven categories, described below.
- Faith-based and community-based initiatives
- Health care delivery
- Healthy workplace
- Large employer (> 500 employees)
- Small employer (< 500 employees)
- Non-profit
- Public Sector
- Schools (early childhood programs through 12th grade)
- Let's Move! Cities and Towns
An HHS expert panel will review nominations and choose the most promising innovations in each category. Descriptions of the most promising innovations will be posted on challenge.gov for public voting. The HHS Secretary will make the final determination of winners based on public votes and recommendations from the HHS expert panel. The HHS Secretary will present awards to the winners in a public recognition ceremony in Washington D.C. Awardees will also travel to a national conference, where they will participate in a panel discussion to further disseminate their innovations.
Judges
Administration for Children and Families
Public Health Branch, Health Resources and Services Administration
Food and Drug Administration
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Health Resources and Services Administration
Health Resources and Services Administration
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Health Resources and Services Administration
President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition
National Institutes of Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Institutes of Health
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Immediate Office of the Secretary
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Administration for Children and Families
Intermediate Office of the Secretary
Office on Women's Health
Claudine J. Kavanaugh, PhD, MPH, RD
Food and Drug Administration
National Institutes of Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Immediate Office of the Secretary
Food and Drug Administration
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Melissa McGowan, M.H.S., C.H.E.S.
National Institutes of Health
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
White House Office/ Executive Office of the President
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
RADM Penelope Slade-Sawyer, PT, MSW
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Administration for Children and Families
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
National Institutes of Health
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Judging Criteria
- Overview
An HHS expert panel will select the most promising innovations in each category. Descriptions of promising innovations will be posted on challenge.gov for public voting. The HHS Secretary will make the final selection of winners in each category.
- Creativity and Innovation (30 points maximum)
Innovation exhibits originality, ingenuity, and resourcefulness in addressing the health promotion area specified.
- Leadership (10 points maximum)
Design and implementation provides direction that other organizations can emulate to address similar health promotion areas. Extent to which the innovation and its leaders actively encourage other organizations to engage in similar initiatives indicated.
- Sustainability (10 points maximum)
Resources and support are available for the innovation. Include information on capacity-building and functioning relationships with other entities that have a vested interest in the continuation of the program.
- Replicability (25 points maximum)
The innovation has the potential to be effectively duplicated, transferred, or adapted by institutions/organizations with similar competencies and for target populations with similar demographic profiles.
- Results/ Outcomes (25 points maximum)
There are specified measures developed to evaluate the performance of the innovation. (Submissions under the Lets Move Cities and Towns category should specify measures developed to evaluate the innovation if results have not been collected.)
How to Enter
To nominate an innovation for the Healthy Living Innovation Awards, please first review the eligibility requirements and criteria for selection, outlined in the "Rules" section and the "Judging" section. To download detailed instructions on how to submit a nomination through this website, click here. (You may wish to print this document before you begin.)
To review and post the nomination form, click here.
Only electronic nominations will be considered. ALL nominations must be received by 11:59 PM EST March 1, 2011.
Latest Discussion
Announcement and Start of Public Voting
Latest reply by Nov S, 2011-06-15 06:33:03 -0400
