 Healthy Eating Active Living website |
Promoting healthier food options and physical activity
Second Community Forum
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When: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 5:30PM-7:30PM
Where: Rockwood Public Library
17917 SE Stark St
Gresham, OR
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Share Your Experience
Join us as the City hosts "Healthy Eating Active Living" its second community forum for you to share your thoughts on how the built environment helps and/or hinders the ability to have access to healthy foods and active living opportunities.
The purpose of the forum is to provide a venue to hear the community's thoughts on what helps and hinders their access to healthy food options and physical activity. We'll also be sharing best practices from other jurisdictions on how to address obesity through the built environment (land uses, parks, transportation). The forum will also include information on the Gresham Transportation System Plan update and the Metro-led project East Metro Connections.
This community forum will be held in English and Spanish. Translators will be available to assist.
What is Healthy Eating Active Living?
Healthy Eating, Active Living (HEAL) promotes equitable access and opportunities to healthy, affordable food and to active living. It examines how health may be affected by the built environment by promoting healthier food options and physical activity through daily routines.
Healthy eating may be encouraged through many methods:
- Access to full-service grocery stores
- Limiting access to less healthful food and beverage
- Promoting community-based agriculture through community gardens and edible landscaping
Active living describes a way of life in which physical activity is integrated into daily routines. Active living is encouraged through many methods:
- Ensuring a connected sidewalk and bicycle path network
- Promoting complete streets
- Ensuring access to public transit
- Supporting 20 minute neighborhoods
- Promoting equitable and increased access to parks
This effort is funded through the Multnomah County Healthy Department, Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) program.
More Info?
Contact Stacy Humphrey, Associate Planner, City of Gresham by phone at 503-618-2202 or email Stacy.Humphrey@GreshamOregon.gov.
