Umatilla County Plan4Health

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Check out our recommendations for different sectors and groups below and contact us to get involved TODAY!

Individuals

Join the coalition listserv, stay up to date on Plan4Health activities via Facebook, Twitter, and our website, take a personal pledge to make small changes that can yield huge benefits, get active in your daily life; walk or bike to a destination instead of driving, eat a plant based meal one night a week, plant a garden.

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Businesses and Worksites

Assess and evaluate food provided to employees in cafeteria and meetings, incorporate Health in All Policies framework, support micro-breaks to stretch and move every hour, offer and publish walking routes, provide secure bike storage, allow participation in fitness activities during work hours, encourage use of stairwells, offer incentives for bio-metric screenings, provide standing desks and other alternatives to provide flexibility to choose to stand or sit.

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Agricultural

Support sustainable agriculture, Expand access to local, healthy foods through local and regional food systems, school food programs and food equity initiatives.

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Schools

Assess and evaluate food provided to students in cafeteria and classroom setting, enhance lunchroom environment establish safe routes to school, prohibit the sale and consumption of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages on campus, integrate physical activity into lesson plans, establish a school garden and incorporate nutrition focused activities and material into curriculum, discontinue using unhealthy foods for fundraisers, establish a health and wellness council that meets regularly.

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Communities/Government

Adopt a Complete Streets Policy, encourage mixed-use development, assess retail locations offering tobacco, and nutritionally poor choices.