Community Health

With a focus on the most vulnerable communities, OMG is committed to improving the health of all. As strategists and evaluators, we work with our clients on a broad range of health related issues, including reducing teen violence; community access to quality health care; and quality nutrition and home delivered meals to the homebound. Our team has built a significant portfolio focused on reducing our country’s obesity epidemic through strategies centered on healthy food choices and active life styles in schools and communities.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Convening
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OMG is assisting the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to design a convening to extend the policy development skills of its Health Policy Research  grantees. While informing RWJF about its grantees’ capacity needs, this meeting will deepen grantees’ understanding  of the critical role of research in the policy change process, and its place among the broader set of policy change tools and players. The resulting information will ensure that grantees are able to work smarter to effectively influence policy. 
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Alliance for Healthier Generation’s Competitive Foods Agreement
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The Agreement is a voluntary contract with food companies to provide healthy food options in select elementary, middle, and high schools. Using a combination of surveys, interviews, and focus groups, the evaluation examined changes in marketing and food offerings among schools working with food companies that have signed the agreement. The evaluation supported program strengthening and scaling for the Alliance.
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Pennsylvania Early Childhood Mental Health Consultancy Project
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With funding from the William Penn Foundation, the program was recently launched by the Pennsylvania Key to provide support to childcare providers in assessing and supporting children’s mental health needs. OMG is looking at service delivery across the state, and will make recommendations to improve program components and outcomes.
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Childhood Obesity Prevention
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OMG assessed the design of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Injury Free Coalition for Kids initiative as well as individual site programs and their evaluation capacity. OMG also offered workshops to enhance grantees' evaluation skills.
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Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA)
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OMG is conducting a study comparing the medical costs and health outcomes of chronically ill and nutritionally at-risk clients receiving MANNA home-delivered meals to those of a similar group that is not receiving this service. This research aims to highlight the importance of regular nutrition in improving health and decreasing medical costs. The results of this study may serve to generate further questions for scientific inquiry and inform policy at the local, state, and national level.
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St. Christopher’s Foundation for Children (SCFC)’s Farm to Families Initiative
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The initiative aims to help underserved families in North Philadelphia by offering them greater access to healthy foods through a weekly local foods distribution system and nutrition education classes. Acting as research partners and strategy advisors, OMG provided ongoing formative feedback to the managers and participants, and determined the extent to which the initiative met its objectives.
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Thought Leader Forums on Childhood Obesity Prevention
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OMG designed and facilitated four thought leader forums for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to advance and inform the field by bringing together leaders with diverse perspectives and expertise in various areas pertaining to childhood obesity prevention.
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