The Governor’s Awards for Wellness Innovation

 

Application Scoring

Applications will be reviewed and scored by a panel of reviewers, including representatives from the Governor’s Office, program managers from Rhode Island Department of Health’s Tobacco Control, Injury Prevention, and Healthy Weight programs, representatives from the Wellness Issue Group, and experts from school, community, healthcare, and worksite settings.

Please note that high-scoring applications will include specific program descriptions and question responses and will emphasize a creative, innovative program or policy.  Applications will be judged according to the following scale:

• How well program description is organized including need, development, implementation and funding 20% 
• How creative, original and resourceful the program / policy is  50%
• How well the program / policy reached out to the target audience  10%
• How well the program / policy worked 10%
• How well the program / policy can be sustained 10%

Applications will be judged based solely on the information submitted in the application. 

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

Please Contact Erin Brown at 401-222-7637 or Erin.Brown@health.ri.gov