Creating Healthy Communities
Vision: Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice
Mission: Creating Healthy Communities (CHC) is committed to preventing and reducing chronic disease statewide. Through cross-sector collaboration, we are activating communities to improve access to and affordability of healthy food, increase opportunities for physical activity, and assure tobacco-free living where Ohioans live, work and play. By implementing sustainable evidence-based strategies, CHC is creating a culture of health.
The Creating Healthy Communities Program (CHC) is funded by a federal Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant administered by Ohio Department of Health. The CHC program goal is to reduce the preventable risk factors for chronic conditions such as hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes. Activities target three priority communities: Buchtel, Barberton and the Lakemore/Springfield area. Program activities include increasing physical activity, encouraging healthful nutritional choices and preventing/reducing tobacco use and exposure. Desirable program outcomes include verbal or written policies, systems and environmental change – new methods of evaluating the effectiveness of community health programs that modify the environment to encourage healthy choices. Learn more by reading the Creating Healthy Communities Success Stories Booklets or by visiting the ODH CHC website.
For more information, please contact:
Heidi Dressler, MS, RD, LD
Program Coordinator
330.926.5658
hdressler@schd.org
Community Tobacco Control Youth Activities Initiative
This grant supports and further expands on the efforts of the Ohio Department of Health by funding communities to address youth initiation of tobacco use through the implementation of evidence-based strategies.
For more information, please contact:
Jessica Wingert
Program Coordinator
330.812.3918
jwingert@schd.org
Community Tobacco Control Policy Initiative
This grant supports the adoption of smoke-free policies in residential and public housing complexes.
For more information, please contact:
Jessica Wingert
Program Coordinator
330.812.3918
jwingert@schd.org