Town of Bel Air issued the following announcement on June 18.
MD was recognized at the Maryland Municipal League Summer Conference, by the HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign for the Mid-Atlantic as a HEAL Cities and Towns Campaign Member. The HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign supports local elected officials to adopt healthy eating and active living (HEAL) policies and practices that create healthy, prosperous communities. As a HEAL Campaign Member, The Town of Bel Air receives technical assistance and resources to support municipal efforts to create a community where all people can make healthy choices to eat nutritious food and be physically active.
The purpose of the HEAL Campaign and its levels of recognition – Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum – is to recognize and motivate local governments’ continued achievement from passing a HEAL resolution to attaining it’s HEAL goals. Cities and towns pass a HEAL resolution to become a member of the HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign. They advance to higher levels of HEAL recognition by adopting policies and practices that municipalities set as goals in a resolution to shape the community into a place where residents and employees can make healthy choices about food and physical activity. Cities and Towns are recognized as new members of the Campaign and for advancing to higher recognition levels atthe Municipal League annual conference.
The HEAL Cities and Towns Campaign has recognized Bel Air as a Platinum HEAL Campaign member. Platinum Level is awarded to Cities and Towns that have achieved Gold Level recognition and can provide evidence that HEAL policies and practices are integrated across municipal departments and are being monitored. The Town of Bel Air has achieved Platinum Level by implementing nursing mothers breastfeeding policy, community gardens, CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) discount to Town employees, Step Program, gym membership discount to Town employees, healthy vending policy, lunch ‘n learns about health issues, wellness fair and wellness committee.
The HEAL Cities and Towns Campaign is a project of the Institute for Public Health
Innovation (IPHI), in partnership with the Maryland and Virginia MunicipalLeagues, and is funded by Kaiser Permanente, founding partner. The Campaign provides technical assistance to municipal leaders to help them create healthy,prosperous communities by adopting policies and practices that improve their communities’ physical activity and food environments. These policies and practices set the framework for healthy, prosperous communities where people live, work, and play.
“At the Institute for Public Health Innovation, we know that creatingpolicies that address healthy living at a local level is critical to addressing the personal, collective, and economic impact of obesity,” said Sydney Daigle, HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign Manager for the Mid-Atlantic. The HEAL Campaign will work the the Town of Bel Air to address these issues and adopt policies and practices that promote healthy eating and active living.
About the HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign for the Mid-Atlantic
The HEAL Cities and Towns Campaign provides free technical assistance to local government leaders to help them create healthy, prosperous communities by adopting policies and practices that improve their communities’ physical activity and food environments. HEAL is a project of the Institute for PublicHealth Innovation, in partnership with the Maryland and Virginia Municipal
Leagues and funded by Kaiser Permanente, founding partner.
For moreinformation, visit the HEAL website at www.healcitiesmidatlantic.org and contact HEAL Program Manager at Sdaigle@institutephi.org,240-253-1036 or follow @HEALMidAtlantic on Twitter.
About the Institute for Public Health Innovation
The Institute for Public Health Innovation (IPHI) provides technical capacity, leverages resources, and facilitates collaboration across sectors to develop,implement, and evaluate effective strategies that improve health and quality oflife in the DC, Maryland and Virginia region. IPHi is one of the newest institutes within the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI), an organization of 38 members throughout the United States and a growing aspect of the national public health infrastructure.
To learn more about IPHi, visit www.institutephi.org.
For more information about the Institute forPublic Health Innovation, visit www.institutephi.org like InstitutePHI on Facebook, and follow @institutephi on Twitter.
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Source: Town of Bel Air
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