It was a busy and productive January at Vida Health Communications with all projects moving forward at a brisk clip.

For our After School Gets Moving Project we hired a project manager and entered into a development agreement with Playworks to provide activity coodinators and child actors to model games appropriate for 8-10 year olds in a wide variety of afterschool settings.  Production activites are projected to begin in the Spring.

Vida also hired a project manager for Workplace Violence Training for Nurses . This is my pet project but I found that it kept getting bumped from my plate by other pressing issues.  We are now back on track and anticipate that production activities will begin in May.

Evaluation of the patient intervention  from Managing Environment Risks in Pregnancy kicked off in December and we are rapidly approaching our enrollment targets. Evaluation workshops are being conducted at four WIC offices in Massachusetts. This month we will be releasing Your Green Guide to Pregnancy: Practical Strategies for Reducing Environmental Risk, a toolkit to help prenatal healthcare providers and educators  provide anticipatory guidance around this often confusing issue.

In January, we completed phase I of our All Babies Cry project and submitted a progress report to NIH. We hope to have phase II funding in place by mid-February.