ArCOP's Annual Celebration
December 1, 2016
Benton Event Center
10 am (registration/networking)
Help us celebrate as communities across the state make "the healthy choice, the easy choice." At this year’s celebration we will recognize the accomplishments in our state and on the local level in 2016. We are at an all-time high with 64 Growing Healthy Communities. We awarded project grants to 37 communities for activities that support the Healthy Active Arkansas agenda. We awarded 18 Farmers Markets with grants to initiate Double Up Food Bucks (DUFB) program for SNAP beneficiaries. ArCOP has initiated a complete streets campaign in five GHC, developed a refrigerator curriculum for our Growing Healthy Schools, developed a training to fund 10 Growing Healthy Worksites to implement lactation accommodations, passed 15 tobacco policies in GHC, and been awarded to fund a Growing Healthy Youth initiative in 19 Delta Counties. It has been a busy 2016 and we are looking forward to even greater accomplishments in 2017.
