Healthy Franklin County Physical Activity, Nutrition and Weight Status Taskforce
Healthy Franklin County Physical Activity, Nutrition and Weight Status Taskforce is composed of key community leaders from the education, health, faith, business, nonprofit, and local government sectors. Our goal is to create and support healthy behaviors and lifestyles through education, awareness, programming, and access to services. These key leaders continue to identify value in identifying and strengthening efforts to address health and health care needs from a collective perspective. Priorities identified: Health Equity/Social Determinants; Access to Care; Physical Activity, Nutrition and Weight Status; Behavioral Health; Early Childhood Education; and Adolescent Health.
Note: The Nutrition Taskforce and Physical Activity Taskforce combined in September 2019 into the Nutrtion, Physical Activity and Weight Status Task Force. With this transition, the Built Environment Work Group and Food Insecurity Work Group disbanded. A new taskforce to address food insecurity was also created.
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Check out the Franklin County resources Nutrition Food Resources Map!
Healthy Franklin County Physical Activity, nutrition and weight status Taskforce
Co-led by Barb Houpt (Community Volunteer) and Jim Boyer (Healthy Communities Partnership) the physical activity, nutrition and weight status taskforce is focused on engaging all residents to adopt physically active lifestyles and to increase awareness and offer support to stengthen the availability of healthier food options for all Franklin County residents. The taskforce has two work groups that focus on community engagement and community gardens.
Contact for more information:
Barb Houpt, Exit Preferred Realty, 717-977-7859, barbhoupt@eprhomes.com
Jim Boyer, Healthy Communities Partnership, 717-264-1470, boyer.hcp@gmail.com
2020 meeting minutes
2019 meeting minutes
2018 Meeting minutes
2017 Meeting Minutes
2016 Meeting Minutes
Physical Activity Task Force - Workgroups
Community Engagement - The purpose of this workgroup is to increase the number of youth and adults who engage in aerobic physical activity and muscle strengthening activities through the promotion of evidence-based informed models that encourage everyone, no matter their fitness level (or pace) to walk, bike, and be involved in a daily physical activity program.
2020 MEETING MINUTES
- January
- February
2019 MEETING MINUTES
2018 MEETING MINUTES
2017 MEETING MINUTES
Community Garden - The purpose of this work group is to bring neighborhoods together to provide a sustainable food source for easy access to fresh fruits and vegetables, expand community engagement, strengthen economic development, utilize our collective resources to help sustain existing community gardens and assess the potential to develop new gardens.
2020 MEETING MINUTES
2019 MEETING MINUTES
2019 MEETING MINUTES
2018 MEETING MINUTES
2017 MEETING MINUTES
Community Initiatives - Physical Activity
Follow the Healthy Franklin County events calendar and Get Fit, Franklin County campaign which includes the development and promotion of a variety of physical activity resources in the community.
Resource Links
National Physical Activity Plan Pennsylvania Outdoor Recreation Plan Surgeon General's Step-It-Up-Program America Walks Physical Activity In the Workplace