The Montgomery County Health Education Advisory Board is one of only 28 community organizations to be named to this year’s Growing Healthy Community Recognition Levels. The local organization was selected as a Blosseming Community by the Arkansas Department of Health.
The Arkansas Department of Health “Hometown Health Improvement” and the Arkansas Coalition for Obesity Prevention “Growing Healthy Communities” recently announced the results of the Growing Healthy Community Recognition Levels. There were 94 applications, but only 28 communities met this year’s higher application standards. Each was carefully selected and scored based on pre-determined criteria.
Recognized Emerging Communities
Living Well Together
Capca Connects
White County Cares
Drew Health
Bradley County Hometown Health Coalition
HEALTH Coalition
LIFE Coalition
Miller-Bowie Health Coalition
Little River Wellness Coalition
Recognized Blossoming Communities
Growing a Healthy Charleston
Van Buren County Wellness Committee
Springdale Coordinated School Health
Clinton, AR
Growing a Healthy Searcy County
Lavaca School District
Growing a Healthy Magazine
Growing a Healthy Carroll County
The Scott County Hometown Health Coalition
Independence County Hometown Wellness
City of Greenbrier
Cleveland County Child Obesity Workgroup
Hempstead County Wellness Alliance
Nashville GHC
United Community Resource Council/City of Hampton
Montgomery County Health Education Advisory Board
Dallas County Supporting Health (DASH)/City of Fordyce
Sevier County Coalition
Recognized Thriving Communities
Jasper Community Garden
Goals of the Growing Healthy Community application are as follows:
-Encourage smaller GHCs to come together at the county level to complete this application
-To strengthen and expand partnerships and collaborations in a larger geographic area
-Expand policy, systems and environmental (PSE) change to larger organizational and community-wide efforts
-Grow efforts to engage hard-to-reach and disadvantaged populations
-Achieve and maintain buy-in from elected officials and other high level organizations leaders, i.e. hospital CEO, school superintendent, etc.”