Awards & Honors

2010

Funding Awards
Let's Go! is pleased to announce that the Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics has been awarded one of four National Healthy Active Living Grants. The funds awarded will be used to focus on healthy nutrition during home visitation of children aged 0-5 years, with particular emphasis on drinking more milk and water and less juice. With these funds, we will be piloting a new tool between July 2010 - July 2011 through Youth Alternatives Ingraham, Healthy Families Program, which serves 197 families in Cumberland County.

Let's Go! is also happy to be partnering with Healthy Portland at the City of Portland on their recent Communities Putting Prevention to Work grant. This grant is part of the stimulus funds that are coming to Maine to address obesity prevention. Currently Let's Go! and Healthy Portland are working together to finalize our plans, but these funds will allow us to build upon both our school and childcare work.

 

2009

Cumberland Country YMCA Grants the Let's Go! Program A Strong Kid Builder Award

On October 29, 2010, more than 70 people attended the annual Cumberland County YMCA Recognition Breakfast and Annual meeting, which was held at the Casco Bay branch in Freeport. Let's Go! was recognized with the Strong Kid Builder award for the Greater Portland Branch, for their work promoting healthy lifestyle choices for youth and families in the Greater Portland Area.

Funding Awards
Let’s Go! was recently awarded grant awards from the following founding partners: Anthem / Wellpoint Foundation, TD Banknorth, Hannaford, Maine Medical Center and MaineHealth.

Many thanks to all these organizations for their ongoing support and leadership with Let’s Go! both financially as well as providing us with talented and dedicated founding partner representatives that help make Let’s Go! what it is.

 

2008

Program Recognition Award from the Maine Public Health Association

Let’s Go! is the 2008 recipient of Maine Public Health Association’s Program Recognition Award.

The Association’s goal of this award is to increase the visibility of public health initiatives in Maine, to promote adoption of effective public health programs, and to provide recognition to organizations involved in successful collaborative public health initiatives. Let’s Go! is proud to be receiving the same award that has recognized other great public health organizations and programs in the past. Previous award winners include: The Smoke-Free Housing Coalition of Maine in 2007, Raising Readers and Power Up! Healthy Portland in 2006. Let’s Go! received this award at Maine Public Health Association’s annual meeting on November 3 at the Augusta Civic Center.

Assistant Project Director, Jessica Siraco (second from right,) receives the MPHA Program Recognition Award for Let's Go! on November 3rd, 2008.

Our Winter Activity Let's Go! PSA  won 2nd place in the TV Spot category at the Maine Association of Broadcasters Awards

Each year, the Maine Association of Broadcasters honors the best of Maine broadcasting. Maine Association of Broadcasters recognized WGME with a second place award in the television spot category for “Let’s Go! Winter” produced by John Schrank, Matt Perry, and Kerry Corcoran. Check out the winning PSA.