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Summer 2010:

• JMH Education was honored as the USDA Woman-Owned Contractor of the Year during a ceremony in Washington, DC. This award is in recognition of JMH’s extraordinary client service, creativity and ability to achieve results. JMH also received USDA’s Group Honor Award for Excellence in 2004.



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• The "Nutrients" spot that JMH created with Cartoon Network has received the Promax Gold Award for Television-Video Presentation/Content Promotion, PSA. The Chowder/Nutrients spot was created for the Food and Drug Administration's healthy eating "Spot the Block" (nutrition facts label) Campaign. Since 1997, this JMH-created campaign has reached well over 100 million tweens and their parents on line, on air, and in person and educated them about healthy eating using the nutrition facts label!

Check out the site: www.fda.gov/spottheblock/

 

Spring 2010:

• JMH attended USDA's 2010 Food Safety Education conference. The conference features most current research, best practices, and cutting-edge strategies for reducing foodborne illness.


• JMH announces the launch of the new Spot the Block website for parents and community educators. The custom portal is the newest phase in JMH's multi-media campaign to combat childhood obesity, created on behalf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Other project elements include a tween awareness initiative in partnership with Cartoon Network, grassroots family outreach, and local Spot the Block events.



Check out the new site: www.fda.gov/spottheblock/



• The First the Seed Career Booklet is the latest chapter in the online education initiative created by JMH for the First the Seed Foundation. First the Seed is a not-for-profit organization established by the American Seed Trade Association to promote the world-wide relevance of – and career opportunities in – the global seed industry.

Learn more about the education kit; and click here to read the press release PDF.


• JMH Education has joined two new professional organizations. CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), the nation's leading non-profit organization serving individuals with AD/HD and their families; and NAGC (The National Association of Government Communicators) is a not-for-profit professional network dedicated to advancing effective communications through information gatekeepers within federal, state and local government.

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Winter 2010:

• JMH attends the FETC Conference in January. One of the largest events in the U.S. devoted to educational technology, it teaches educators to integrate new technologies across the curriculum – from kindergarten through college – and shares the latest in hardware, software and successful strategies on student technology use.

Visit the site: www.fetc.org/

Fall 2009:

• JMH receives another five-year contract with FDA to continue multi-media programming that combats childhood obesity. Project elements include the Cartoon Network partnership, tween/parent education, and grassroots outreach and community events.

Check out the custom tween sitelet: www.spottheblock.com/

Summer 2009:

• The First the Seed Foundation's education website launches. The site, created by JMH Education, offers information about the critical role seeds play in our lives, with special focus on science and careers.  Topic areas are targeted to student, educator and consumer audiences.

Visit the site: www.firsttheseed.org/



• The Lysol “Looking After” three-book series, created for Reckitt-Benkiser in collaboration with NAPNAP, VNAA and CDC, wins the Apex Marketing Award. The program educates parents of young children about health and wellness issues. 

View the books online



• JMH attends the What Teens Want Conference, a trends-based marketing event focused on insights and innovations that enable brands to captivate and engage the influential teen audience. 
  

Contact Jane Meyer at JMH to learn more about reaching teens/tweens



• Kitchen Companion, a food safety manual created by JMH on behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Information Service, reaches a distribution milestone with 200,000 consumers reached in print; the program is also available for download at USDA's website. 

Check out Kitchen Companion

Spring 2009:

• JMH Education celebrates its 29th year in business.

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• JMH launches "Ounce of Prevention for Kids," an activity-based health initiative for children in partnership with Lysol, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.

Visit the kids' website: www.oopkids.com
Download the activity book: www.lysol.com/germ-information-center/resources/



• Feed the Pig for tweens, created on behalf of The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Ad Council, has reached over 1 million students with important messages about financial literacy, saving and spending.
  

Click here to read the JMH Case Study
Click here to visit the interactive website.



• JMH's violence-prevention program for high school English classes on behalf of Family Violence Prevention Fund goes into pilot test.

Visit the website: www.lessonsfromliterature.org
Download the Classroom Manual.

Fall 2008:

• JMH launches new program for literature classes on behalf of Family Violence Prevention Fund. Innovative program uses the high school English curriculum to teach violence prevention.

Visit the website: www.lessonsfromliterature.org



• Talking to Parents About Autism, a program created by JMH on behalf of Autism Speaks and Ad Council, goes live with education program for early childhood teachers.
  

Visit the program website:
www.autismspeaks.org/whatisit/talking_to_parents_action_kit.php



• JMH Education enters 19th year as creator and developer of Colgate-Palmolive's global education initiative.
  

Click here to see our award-winning Bright Smiles, Bright Futures^™ program online.



• The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Ad Council announce the launch of Feed the Pig for Tweens, a financial literacy program created by JMH.
  

Click here to read the press release PDF; click here to visit the interactive website.

Summer 2008

• Reckitt-Benckiser's "Looking After" Family Health Program^™ book series, created by JMH in partnership with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, is now available for download at the Lysol^® website.

View and/or download the 3-book series. www.lysol.com/home-and-family/family-health-program/



• The Soap and Detergent Association and CDC celebrate the third annual recognition awards for the JMH-created SNAP: Healthy Schools, Health People in-school cleaniness program.
  

  Click here to view awards information.
  
  

• JMH's Spot the Block tween education program, created for FDA in partnership with Cartoon Network, receives Kid Power 2008 Award for Best Campaign in Non-Profit.
  

  Click here to visit the Spot the Block tween website.