{"id":105368,"date":"2019-12-13T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=105368"},"modified":"2023-11-03T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T15:57:33","slug":"pabst-steinmetz-foundation-picks-2-wellness-innovation-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pabst-steinmetz-foundation-picks-2-wellness-innovation-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Picks 2 Wellness Innovation Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two collaborative projects have been announced as the 2019 winners of the Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts & Wellness Innovation Awards. The winning teams, comprising UCF personnel and community organizations, were each awarded $25,000 to further their interdisciplinary arts and wellness projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

The winning initiatives are \u201cCreative Approaches to Combat HIV Stigma and Discrimination from Health Providers\u201d and \u201cProject Xavier Hands-free Training Game.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were 18 proposals submitted for the two awards. Each team must involve the College of Arts and Humanities and at least one other college, unit or center from the university. Preference is given to initiatives that are interdisciplinary, community-focused and sustainable, and the projects must contain an evaluation framework.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted by the quality and quantity of applications proposing a broad range of innovative arts and wellness initiatives between campus and community,\u201d says Margery Pabst-Steinmetz, who with her husband co-founded the foundation supporting the awards.<\/p>\n

The awards were founded in 2018 by the Pabst Steinmetz Foundation to build sustainable models for arts and wellness innovation at UCF and the Central Florida community. The inaugural year\u2019s winning projects focused on the effects of reading on aging populations and of providing multimedia messages about positive parenting in multiple languages.<\/p>\n

The 2019 recipients are:<\/p>\n

Creative Approaches to Combat HIV Stigma and Discrimination from Health Providers<\/strong><\/p>\n