How would you make your community a healthier place?

CLICK HERE to learn from Deborah A. Cohen. M.D., co-author of Prescription for a Healthy Nation: A New Approach to Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World

There are plenty of ways to get involved (CLICK each item below to learn more):

Safe Routes to School

Encourage Civility on the Road

Building Healthy & Livable Communities

Promote Community Gardens

The champion, the leader, the catalyst for change.

The person who improves your corner of the world.

The one who makes life better for everyone – your neighborhood, school, faith community, or workplace.

Grantees – Phase I

Safe Routes to School Grantees

Community Garden Workshops

The Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF), in hopes of inspiring community-based, not-for-profit organizations to initiate community garden programs locally, hosted two community gardens workshops on February 19 and 20 as part of its Think~Act~Be Healthy Communities initiative.

The events, which drew more than 50 participants, featured speakers Bobby Wilson, president of the Board of Directors of the American Community Garden Association, and Melissa Watford, Ed.M., Health Education Coordinator for FirstHealth in North Carolina.

WPHF also used the occasion to announce the availability of grant funding through its Think~Act~Be Healthy Communities initiative for not-for-profit organizations interested in starting community garden projects in Eatonville, Maitland, and Winter Park.

For more information about the workshop, community gardening resources and grants, click here.

“If we want to be healthier, we should change our everyday world in ways that encourage healthy behavior.”
—Dr. Deborah Cohen and Dr. Tom Farley, co-authors, Prescription for a Healthy Nation

For more information about the Think~Act~Be Healthy Communities initiative supported by the Winter Park Health Foundation, email Lisa Portelli, Program Director.

For more information on the Winter Park Health Foundation, visit www.wphf.org