{"id":14209,"date":"2018-02-20T15:51:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/?p=14209"},"modified":"2018-02-20T15:51:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:51:56","slug":"eureka-a-program-for-girls-that-encourages-healthy-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2018\/02\/20\/eureka-a-program-for-girls-that-encourages-healthy-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Eureka! A Program for Girls that Encourages Healthy Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14212 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Eureka-Program-screen-capture-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Eureka-Program-screen-capture-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Eureka-Program-screen-capture.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/>The following is the second in a series of blog posts written by NER funded grant recipients.\u00a0<\/em><em>Through these posts you can read about how NLM resources are promoting health in our New England communities.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This week\u2019s blog post was written by Meaghan McCarthy, the Eureka! Program Manager from the Girls Inc. organization located in Worcester, Massachusetts.\u00a0\u00a0Meaghan writes about the healthy living after-school program implemented through a NNLM Community Engagement grant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Girls Inc. of Worcester offers Healthy Living programming (July 2017 \u2013 March 2018) for 90 high school girls enrolled in Girls Inc. Eureka! (Girls Inc.\u2019s capstone STEM \u2013 science, technology, engineering, and math &#8211; program) and 150 girls registered in Girls Inc.\u2019s after school program.\u00a0 Girls Inc.\u2019s multi-tiered Healthy Living Project aligns with NNLM\u2019s mission to broaden access to and awareness of health information resources, with an emphasis of using those resources provided by NLM.\u00a0 The project will complement and enhance Girls Inc. Eureka! and Girls Inc. after school programs.<\/p>\n<p>Girls Inc. Eureka! participants completing summer Externships at Girls Inc. (July 2017) utilized their training in PubMed, Medline Plus, and other NLM resources to create age-appropriate Healthy Living Curricula for girls in grades K-9.\u00a0 The curricula developed last summer is now being implemented during Girls Inc. after school programming from September 2017 through March of 2018. The curricula enhances the Girls Inc. National guidelines for physical fitness and nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>Healthy Living activities include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Measuring Sugar<\/li>\n<li>Obesity in America<\/li>\n<li>Healthy Eating Throughout the Holidays<\/li>\n<li>Staying Motivated Means Staying Active<\/li>\n<li>Dental Hygiene<\/li>\n<li>Self-Defense<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In March 2018, three Cohorts of Girls Inc. Eureka! participants (90 girls grades 8-10) will visit the UMass Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, for tours, research and Internet Safety training.<\/p>\n<p>Girls Inc. Eureka! program flyer. Eureka! 5-year STEM and Leadership program which includes programming partnered with NNLM.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is the second in a series of blog posts written by NER funded grant recipients.\u00a0Through these posts you can read about how NLM resources are promoting health in our New England communities. This week\u2019s blog post was written by Meaghan McCarthy, the Eureka! Program Manager from the Girls Inc. organization located in Worcester,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2018\/02\/20\/eureka-a-program-for-girls-that-encourages-healthy-living\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,245,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-funded-project","category-nlm","category-public-health-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14215,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14209\/revisions\/14215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}