TSET is accepting applications for new grant opportunities that fall into one of two tracks: projects that improve the built environment and health-related policy or initiatives that encourage healthy nutrition and exercise.
With this new funding opportunity, TSET seeks to grow partnerships statewide and support eligible organizations working to reduce the four diseases that cause 64% of preventable deaths in Oklahoma - heart disease, lung disease, cancer and diabetes.
Policy and Built Environment
- Funds projects that enhance community infrastructure to improve health
- Maximum award of $350,000 per year for two years
- Requires a 1:1 match
Innovations in Active Living and Healthy Eating
- Funds initiatives that promote regular physical activity and nutritious eating on a large scale (multiple sites)
- Maximum award of $250,000 per year for two years
- Match preferred but not required
Oklahoma communities, non-profit 501(c)3 organizations, tribal nations, institutions of higher learning and public agencies are invited to apply.
Applications will be accepted until March 15, 2022 at 4 p.m.
Eligible school districts and school sites are invited to apply for TSET Healthy Incentive Grants starting Jan. 3, 2022. The application period will close at 4 p.m. on Feb. 3, 2022.
Click here for application and guidelines or contact program manager Laura Matlock at lauram@tset.ok.gov.
To be eligible, applicants must adopt policies that encourage tobacco-free environments, improved nutrition, increased physical activity and enhanced employee wellness. Policy requirements for these grants help create a learning environment that establishes and supports healthy behaviors for students, teachers and staff.
Grant funds may be used for a variety of health-related projects, including playgrounds, walking or biking tracks, hydration stations and physical education equipment.
Funds are limited. Applicants are encouraged to apply early, as grants are awarded on a first come, first serve basis.
FROM THE JOURNAL RECORD:
Dr. Michael Businelle, co-director of the TSET Health Promotion Research Center and Peggy and Charles Stephenson Endowed Chair in Cancer, was recently awarded a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to test a new smartphone application that aims to reduce anxiety and depression and monitor COVID-19 symptoms.
This study aims to address health disparities in access to mental health care via an adaptation of a low-cost mobile app. The EASE app (Easing Anxiety Sensitivity for Everyone) focuses on addressing anxiety and depression and will also assess and monitor COVID-19 symptoms when/if they arise.
“The EASE app is a cutting-edge solution to the rising levels of anxiety and depression in America and we hope it will be approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the future,” said Businelle.
Read more here.
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In episode 21 of the TSET Better Health Podcast, explore the rationale and strategies behind TSET's award-winning health communications programs with three special guests: Renee Nolen Rosencrans of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Smoking and Health; Sjonna Paulson, TSET director of health communication; and Dr. Laura Beebe, an epidemiologist with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
"Those messages give Oklahomans choices, and those choices are very important because the tobacco industry spends $120 million annually in Oklahoma marketing to find replacement smokers for the 7,500 Oklahomans who die each year from smoking," said Paulson. "We need to let them know they have choices and that tobacco is an addiction and it's something that they don't need to add into their lives."
Available on TSET's website and everywhere podcasts are listened to: Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, PodBean, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts.
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