BUILDING OUR COMMUNITY
STRONGER, TO LIVE
HEALTHIER LONGER!
and pray in Vanderburgh County!
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Dedicated to making the most of our communities’ physical activity opportunities. Increasing access to active transportation and intentional physical activity through improving our built environment and place-making.
FOOD
Equal access to healthy food via supermarkets, in schools, corner stores, and farmers' markets helps make the healthy choice the easy choice. Focusing on nutrition, food security, and supporting local food producers.
WHERE DO YOU FIT IN?
Corporate Partners: Leaders, Influencers, & Policy-Makers
Corporate partners play a vital role in making big waves to support policy and spread awareness that impact the health and culture of our community.
SERVICE PARTNERS: MOVERS, SHAKERS, & MAGIC-MAKERS
Our service partners are go-getters. They are movers, shakers, do-ers, and thinkers. They are the ones doing the work to making the magic happen.
FAMILIES AND FRIENDS: INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, & CHANGE-MAKERS
It takes an entire community's engagement to work together. We rely on community members to provide insight and share their unique experiences. Together, we can make the healthy choice the easy choice.
LINCOLN ELEMENTARY RECEIVES
TRAINING ON “DYNAMIC PLAY”
With limited time for kids to be active during the school day, ensuring kids are getting the most out of their recess is very important. This November, Lincoln Elementary teachers participated in a two day Recess Implementation training put on by Playworks. Playworks is an organization based in Oakland, California that specializes in active play for kids. Not all recesses are created equal. With this training, Lincoln hopes to provide physical activity time that is engaging and inclusive for all students. Teachers are also given instruction on how to provide students with solutions for conflict resolution as well as how to create a positive culture around play. Through the training, Lincoln will also be provided with play equipment to compliment some of the new games teachers will offer their students. The Healthy Communities Partnership was able to cover a portion of the cost of the training and as interested in holding more trainings with Playworks in the future. If your school or organization would be interested in a Playworks training please contact us through the “Get Involved” tab on our home page.
HCP ENLISTS NATIONAL ORGANIZATION TO CREATE DYNAMIC PLAY
One of the Healthy Communities Partnership’s early successes showcased a great partnership between funders, HCP, and multiple after school community centers. In January of 2017 HCP was able to provide training to Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation employees as well as multiple after school community centers that focused on how to make play time for youth more engaging and inclusive. Playworks, an organization that provides support and training to schools across the country, provided an extensive three day training in Evansville. Funding provided by the Indiana State Department of Health made this training possible. To make this training even more impactful, CareSource provided funding to purchase play equipment for the Dream Center and the YMCA Caldwell Community Center. The Access to Physical Activity Workgroup hopes to continue their success and partnerships further and continue to increase the number of youth participating in dynamic physical activity.
NOURISH-COMMUNITY
FOOD BUYING CLUB
In March of 2020, the Healthy Communities Partnership, with lead partner Urban Seeds, launched Nourish. Nourish is a community food buying club that offers participants convenient online grocery shopping at prices up to 40% lower than big box stores. In addition to this, Nourish also offers customized education for members such as, shopping on a budget, meal planning, basic nutrition, and cooking skills. While Covid-19 has forced Nourish to adapt, the program is still operating and is currently in the process of adding new members. What makes Nourish such an exciting program is that it addresses many of the challenges people face in eating nutritious foods. price, convenience, and lack of familiarity. For more information on Nourish, visit www.urbanseeds.org
Funding for Nourish was provided by a grant from the Welborn Baptist Foundation.
Children aged 5 to 16 spend an average of six and a half hours a day in front of a screen, and most of the screen time occasions the child is being sedentary and not living an active lifestyle. We want to change that in our community by creating equitable opportunities for healthy eating and active living where people live, learn, work, play and pray.
Our Partners leverage their roles and influence in our community for the greater good. They volunteer their time and help facilitate our goal for diminishing childhood obesity faster, and easier, while providing the funding and awareness needed to make Healthy Communities Partnership effective.
29% of Vanderburgh County adults age 20+ report no leisure-time physical activity. 26,000 individuals in Vanderburgh County are “Food Insecure”. We want to ensure nutritious foods are available to everyone along with opportunities for an active lifestyle with physical activities in our community.
Get Involved!
There is power in numbers. Every advocate, every parent, every business, and every person in our community can make a difference. Join Healthy Communities Partnership in making our community stronger. Health has a seat at every table. Pull up a chair.
