Living Well Partnership - Living Well at Work*
2010 Madison County Living Well at Work Awards
- Are you involved in wellness activities at your worksite? Enter to win $100 for your worksite wellness project!
- Nominations due May 28, 2010
- About the Living Well Partnership l flyer
- Annual Living Well at Work Award
- Living Well at Work Resource Kits
- Contacts
- Watch for upcoming events and activities
About the Living Well Partnership
Our mission is to promote community change that encourages people to eat well and be physically active.
Our vision is people in Madison County are choosing to make good nutrition and regular physical activity part of their healthy lifestyle.
Our goals are to:
- Develop and support a network committed to healthy living.
- Provide opportunities for people to be active and eat healthy.
- Educate the public and professionals about nutrition and physical activity.
- Advocate for policy, practice, and facility changes that support healthy living.
The Living Well Partnership:
- Sponsors an annual Family Fun Day. The goal is to encourage children and their families to eat more vegetables, fruits and low-fat dairy foods and to increase their physical activity.
- Organizes a county-wide TV Turn Off Week Campaign each spring.
Works in partnership with state agencies such as the NY State Department of Health on grant-funded projects which currently includes Eat Well Play Hard and Healthy Start Partnership.
A Local Success Story:
Meeting Healthy People 2010 Goals for People with Diabetes. Madison County's 2009 Diabetes workshops series is recognized l more
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2nd Annual Madison County Living Well at Work Award
On November 6th, 2009 the Living Well Partnership announced the Community Action Partnership (CAP) of Madison County, Cazenovia College, and Cazenovia Children's House as the three winners of the second annual Living Well at Work Award l press release
Picture from left to right:
Janice Romagnoli, Human Resource Director for Cazenovia College, Penny Noll, Director of the Cazenovia Children's House, and Julie Dale, Executive Director of Community Action Partnership of Madison County each accept their Living Well at Work award presented by the Madison County Living Well Partnership.
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Living Well at Work Resource Kits
The Madison County Living Well Partnership welcomes you to Living Well at Work, a resource kit to assist your worksite in improving the health of its employees and includes three topic areas: healthy eating, physical activity and breastfeeding-friendly workplace. Creating a supportive environment through one or more of these areas will contribute to better health for employees.
Each of the three resource kits below contains ideas for making the work environment healthier, a sample policy, web sites for further information, and a quick and easy resource to get you started.
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Contacts
- Chrystal Johnson, Madison County Health Dept at 315-366-2361 or
- Debbie SeGuin, Cornell Cooperative Extension at 315-684-3001
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*Living Well at Work was funded by the Central New York Diabetes Prevention Partnership.