Brighter Bites
In: PreventionThe Texas-based Brighter Bites program distributes fresh fruits and vegetables to low-income students and their parents at no cost through an interactive co-op model. During pick-up time, families receive bilingual handbooks, tip sheets, and recipes, and they are invited to sample healthy meals – or “brighter bites” – created with the week’s recipes. Children also …
Category: Gold Standard
Sponsor Type: Non-profit/NGO
Attributes: Access/Affordability, Behavior Change, Free for Participants, Health Education, Nutrition & Healthy Eating, School-Based
Canary Health
In: PreventionAs a digital platform for healthy living, Canary Health provides online support and tracking tools to promote lifestyle change and chronic disease prevention. Employers and healthcare organizations partner with Canary primarily to enroll their at-risk employees in Canary’s online CDC-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program. Canary focuses on holistic health and “Whole Person Healthcare,” providing programs that …
Category: Innovator
Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, DPP Translation, Online/App-Based/Digital
Cooking Matters
In: PreventionCooking Matters, which provides free cooking and nutrition classes for adults, children, and families living in underserved communities, is based on the premise that nutrition education should be coupled with cooking lessons so that meals can be healthy and enjoyable. By partnering with local organizations, Cooking Matters achieves both national-scope and optimization through customizability. The Cooking Matters …
Category: Gold Standard
Sponsor Type: Non-profit/NGO
Attributes: Access/Affordability, Behavior Change, Community Outreach/Engagement, Free for Participants, Health Education, Nutrition & Healthy Eating
Creating a Culture of Wellness - Massachusetts General Hospital
In: Workplace WellnessOrganizations create cultures of wellness by combining health education with onsite efforts to promote healthy behaviors and an institutional emphasis on health as a central value. For employees in such organizations, health is part of the culture, and to be healthy is to be part of the community These organizations create environments that ease and …
Category: Prime Performer
Sponsor Type: Non-profit/NGO
Attributes: Behavior Change, Culture of Wellness
Diabetes Awareness & Wellness Network (DAWN)
In: Healthcare Teams of the FutureThe DAWN Center provides a community space focused on developing diabetes self-management skills. DAWN offers courses on diabetes basics, nutrition, cooking, and physical activity and provides facilities for people to practice these skills. Membership is free, as are the broad variety of resources offered to members. The DAWN Mobile Unit provides diabetes risk screenings and …
Category: Gold Standard
Attributes: Behavior Change, Community Outreach/Engagement, Free for Participants, Nutrition & Healthy Eating, Physical Activity Promotion, Population Health
Digital Integration for Workplace Wellness - Castlight Health
In: Workplace WellnessA growing number of companies are moving into corporate wellness technology development, creating platforms for other companies to implement workplace wellness programs. By leveraging mobile applications and fitness trackers, these platforms help employers and employees input, track, and analyze real-time data in areas such as fitness, health metrics, emotional wellness, and nutrition.
Category: Innovator
Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, Online/App-Based/Digital
Digital Integration for Workplace Wellness - Limeade
In: Workplace WellnessA growing number of companies are moving into corporate wellness technology development, creating platforms for other companies to implement workplace wellness programs. By leveraging mobile applications and fitness trackers, these platforms help employers and employees input, track, and analyze real-time data in areas such as fitness, health metrics, emotional wellness, and nutrition.
Category: Prime Performer
Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, Online/App-Based/Digital
Digital Integration for Workplace Wellness - Sonic Boom
In: Workplace WellnessA growing number of companies are moving into corporate wellness technology development, creating platforms for other companies to implement workplace wellness programs. By leveraging mobile applications and fitness trackers, these platforms help employers and employees input, track, and analyze real-time data in areas such as fitness, health metrics, emotional wellness, and nutrition.
Category: Innovator
Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, Online/App-Based/Digital
Digital Integration for Workplace Wellness - Virgin Pulse
In: Workplace WellnessA growing number of companies are moving into corporate wellness technology development, creating platforms for other companies to implement workplace wellness programs. By leveraging mobile applications and fitness trackers, these platforms help employers and employees input, track, and analyze real-time data in areas such as fitness, health metrics, emotional wellness, and nutrition.
Category: Prime Performer
Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, Online/App-Based/Digital
Faithful Families Eating Smart and Moving More
In: PreventionFaithful Families provides nutrition and healthy living education in faith communities, with a curriculum designed to tie together faith and health. The nine-part curriculum is taught by a trained nutritional facilitator and a lay leader from the faith community. The model has inspired similar faith-based prevention initiatives in at least seven other U.S. states.
Category: Innovator
Sponsor Type: Non-profit/NGO
Attributes: Behavior Change, Faith-based, Health Education, Nutrition & Healthy Eating, Peer Support, Targeted Population
Fitbit Group Health
In: Workplace WellnessFitbit Group Health is a collection of workplace wellness offerings from Fitbit, a major manufacturer of health and wellness “wearables.” Fitbit’s offerings range from “DIY” tools for employers to complete employee wellness packages. They also include options to integrate Fitbit wearables into other popular workplace wellness programs. More than 1,300 companies use Fitbit devices in …
Category: Prime Performer
Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, Online/App-Based/Digital, Physical Activity Promotion
Fruit & Vegetable Prescription (FVRx) Program
In: PreventionThe FVRx Program, by Wholesome Wave, enables healthcare providers to write individual prescriptions for fruits and vegetables for low-income patients working to adopt healthy lifestyle changes. Patients can redeem their prescribed fruits and vegetables at participating retailers, grocery stores, and farmer’s markets. Produce is either donated directly or paid for through donations. Patients enrolled in …
Category: Prime Performer
Sponsor Type: Non-profit/NGO
Attributes: Access/Affordability, Behavior Change, Nutrition & Healthy Eating, Personalized Care/Precision Medicine
Functional Medicine Coaching Academy
In: Healthcare Teams of the FutureThe Functional Medicine Coaching Academy offers a 12-month course that trains health coaches to help patients manage chronic diseases and improve their overall health and wellbeing. Students develop skills in functional medicine, functional nutrition, mind-body medicine, and positive psychology. Graduates from the program further their careers as health professionals by gaining leadership and empowerment skills …
Category: Prime Performer
Sponsor Type: Non-profit/NGO
Attributes: Behavior Change, Medical Education, Peer Support
Healthimation's Why WAIT
In: PreventionBorn out of a collaboration between the Joslin Diabetes Center and Hollywood, Healthimation’s app version of a successful Diabetes Prevention Program – Why WAIT (Weight Achievement and Intensive Training) demonstrates the potential of gamification for healthy behavior change. The Why WAIT app uses Hollywood animation and an avatar named Lena to engage users in a …
Category: Innovator
Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, DPP Translation, Online/App-Based/Digital
Interactive Health, Inc.
In: Workplace WellnessInteractive Health offers flexible workplace wellness programs that can be integrated into most workplaces, streamlining the development of wellness programs at various enterprises. Interactive Health’s wellness solutions are available to employers, brokers & consultants, and Health Plan & TPA partners. The company offers two main programs, Healthy Triumph and Healthy Advantage. Interactive Health, Inc. serves …
Category: Gold Standard
Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, Culture of Wellness, Online/App-Based/Digital, Physical Activity Promotion
Lark
In: PreventionLark is an app-based (iOS and Android) DPP entirely powered by artificial intelligence, meaning users can get real-time feedback without waiting for a coach. A simple red-yellow-green system makes food logging simple and convenient for users. Lark markets both to individual users in addition to employers, increasing its availability to the general public. Cost for …
Category: Innovator
Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, DPP Translation, Online/App-Based/Digital
MOVE!
In: PreventionMOVE! is a weight-management program available to veterans at U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) Medical Centers and Community-Based Outpatient Clinics. Over 400,000 veterans have participated since 2005. People can take the brief MOVE!11 questionnaire online to get an individual assessment of weight management factors. The curriculum has been converted into a self-guided app, MOVE! …
Sponsor Type: Nationwide/Federal
Attributes: Behavior Change, Targeted Population
Omada
In: PreventionOmada was the first digital DPP to be recognized by the CDC’s certification standards. Participants are matched with a 10- to 15-person support group who all start the program at the same time and a health coach – a structure that aims to provide the social support of a brick-and-mortar DPP. Going beyond its four …
Category: Gold Standard
Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, DPP Translation, Online/App-Based/Digital
Plus3
In: PreventionPlus3 offers customizable web and mobile apps that combine traditional workplace wellness strategies with corporate charitable-giving programs to increase motivation for employees to be healthy. With a variety of incentives, including challenges, competitions, charitable rewards, personal rewards, and family participation, every employee can find the best personal motivation. Employees engage with Plus3 through an app …
Category: Prime Performer
Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, Corporate Responsibility, Culture of Wellness, Online/App-Based/Digital
Skinny Gene Project
In: PreventionSkinny Gene offers an online DPP, a brick-and-mortar DPP, and community events like cooking classes for participants in San Diego County. The variety of options, whether online, in-person, or community-based, allow participants to choose the program that best fits their needs. DPP programs have a partnership with SideKick health, which provides mobile support and easy …
Category: Innovator
Sponsor Type: Non-profit/NGO
Attributes: Behavior Change, DPP Translation, Online/App-Based/Digital
USC Lifestyle Redesign
In: Healthcare Teams of the FutureThe Lifestyle Redesign program uses an occupational therapy model of lifestyle intervention to support people with a wide variety of chronic conditions. The occupational model places an emphasis on understanding the everyday needs and challenges one faces and establishing habits and self-management skills to address them. Studies of the Lifestyle Redesign model among older adults …
Category: Prime Performer
Sponsor Type: Academic Institution
Attributes: Behavior Change, DPP Translation, Interprofessional/Interdisciplinary Teams, Personalized Care/Precision Medicine
Virta Clinic
In: Healthcare Teams of the FutureVirta is an “online specialty medical clinic” focused on improving and even reversing type 2 diabetes Patients receive an individual nutritional plan focused on establishing “nutritional ketosis” through very low-carb diets. Patients access their care team, including an overseeing physician and a dedicated one-on-one coach, through a digital platform that also allows for biometric monitoring …
Category: Innovator
Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, Nutrition & Healthy Eating, Online/App-Based/Digital, Personalized Care/Precision Medicine
Yes Health
In: PreventionYes Health is an all-mobile DPP platform, through which users engage in lessons, log food and activity, and receive coaching through the Yes Health app. Each user receives a personal plan from his or her coach that includes suggested meals, fitness activities, and well-being exercises (e.g., meditation). Yes Health markets directly to the consumer, meaning …
Category: Innovator
Sponsor Type: Company/Corporation
Attributes: Behavior Change, DPP Translation, Online/App-Based/Digital
YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program
In: PreventionAs the first real-life translation of the DPP study, the YMCA’s DPP program demonstrated that the study’s methods and structure could be effective in real-life settings. By using a group-based model and its own employees as program facilitators, the YMCA significantly reduces program costs. After completion of the core sessions, participants attend monthly maintenance sessions …
Category: Gold Standard
Sponsor Type: Non-profit/NGO
Attributes: Behavior Change, DPP Translation