– One of the priorities from our Blueprint for Action is to expand school-based health programming. We have made great progress on this goal, led by Maria Strada from Middle Earth. The focus is on Bound Brook High School, whose student…
– Families, fun and fitness – what could be better? On Saturday, November 10, Shaping Elizabeth held its first indoor Playstreet. By all measures it was a great success, reflecting the coalition partners’ shared beliefs, and our work of leveraging…
– On October 11, 14 young adults were inducted as Perth Amboy’s second class ofEmerging Civic Leaders for a Heathier Community at the Brighton Avenue Community Center. Cecilia Gonzalez, Program Coordinator, and Ana Abreu-Estevez and Tobi Raji, AmeriCorps Coaches, led the…
– The Health Coalition of Passaic County (HCPC) was founded in 2016 by a grant from The Nicholson Foundation. We are a collaborative effort of 17 Board members and 37 Community Advisory Board (CAB) members from a wide range of community organizations,…
– Stretching can take on many forms: from leaving the city limits for the first time to sleeping in a cabin with no electrical outlets! As a coach, it was something to see the transformation taking place during our Team Trenton’s…
– In 2018, Shaping Elizabeth focused on leveraging the Elizabeth Public Library (EPL) as a central location to meet the community to improve health outcomes in healthy eating, physical activity, mental health and clinical care. We recognized the Elizabeth Public…
– As part of our work to improve connectivity among generations of Freehold’s community members, our Intergenerational Physical Activity subgroup created the Linking the Ages program to bring together Freehold community members through various activities. The program took place at the…
– We believe that building a community of trust in schools and in our city is an important component of improving health outcomes. Improving community safety is one the focus areas of our community Building a Culture of Health: Blueprint for…
– In recent years, water equity has become a hot button issue. Whether it pertains to lead in the water in Flint, MI, storm impact along the Gulf coast, or combined sewer overflows in the northeast, water management is a significant concern…
– Over the past two years, we have learned several lessons about building a Culture of Health in Bound Brook and South Bound Brook. One important lesson is that it takes time to engage the community and implement the Blueprint for…
– Beginning our journey as Trenton’s Next Generation Community Leaders, we were mostly just a group of teens who barely knew each other. We came so far as a group, working our hardest as the end of our year-long mission to…
– The Morristown United for Healthy Living (MUHL) Coalition is actively recruiting Street Captains for Census Tract 435. By implementing this community organizing strategy, the Coalition seeks to mobilize at least one resident from most of the 27 streets in the…