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2011-2012 Healthy Eating/Active Living Mini-Grants
The Healthy Eating/Active Living (HEAL) mini-grants program provides grantees funding to create collaborations among community members to build wellness supports for all ages, and to help prevent chronic disease by increasing long-term access to active lifestyle and healthy eating for County residents where they work, live, and play.
Accomplishments during the first cycle of grants include:
- Created two walking paths
- Created a public golf course
- Created six new gardens
- Served 6,000 County residents by providing access to nutrition or physical activity
- Leveraged an additional $50,000 in resources for projects
- Increased community participation in health by 2,300 vlounteer hours
- Provided over 1,280 pounds of locally raised, fresh produce
Following a successful first year, the second year of grantees for 2011-2012 are as follows:
Group | Project | Amount |
| AntFarm, Inc. | Create community garden, teach nutrition awareness and work-life skills. | $8,000 |
| Boring Middle School | Build school garden and greenhouse to supplement nutrition education and physical activity through gardening. | $6,950 |
| Canby Community Garden Association | Develop 1-2 Community gardens in the Canby area. | $7,913 |
| Cascade Heights Public Charter School | Provide healthier work environment for teachers and promote student fitness and nutrition. | $8,000 |
| Child Care Resource and Referral of Clackamas County | Provide training and on-site coaching to childcare providers and preschool teachers regarding nutrition and physical activity. | $8,000 |
| Clackamas County Juvenile Dept. | Promote healthy eating and local food preparation. | $8,000 |
| Colton School District | 1-mile walking trail to promote student/teacher/community fitness. | $8,000 |
| Friends of Robinwood Station Community Center | Create community garden and community education for gardening, cooking and preserving food. | $7,660 |
| Metropolitan Family Services | Provide healthy eating, active living after school and evening activities for children and families. | $8,000 |
| Milwaukie High School | Increase access to healthy foods during the school day and encourage healthful eating behaviors among students and staff. | $5,450 |
| North Clackamas Parks and Recreation District | Healthy Summer camp for youth in 4th-8th grade. Promote healthy eating and active lifestyle. | $7,209 |
| Northwest Family Services | Promote nutrition education and food awareness in afterschool programs, field trips, and create a student based food policy review board. | $7,810 |
| Northwest Housing Alternatives | Provide community garden and healthy recipe’s cookbook for low-income tenants. | $890 |
| OSU Extension, Clackamas County | Plot to Plate program will provide gardening and food preparation instruction in Canby, Oregon City and Sandy. | $8,000 |
| Springwater Environmental Sciences School | Construct greenhouse to learn about soil, water, food production, and healthy eating. | $2,600 |
| 15 Projects Total: | $102,482 |
Kirsten Ingersoll
Community Engagement Coordinator
Clackamas Community Health Division
2051 Kaen Road, Suite 367
Oregon City, OR 97045
(503) 742-5954
Kingersoll@co.clackamas.or.us
Resources
Healthy Campus - Making it Happen
Healthy People 2020 - Nutrition
Healthy People 2020 - Physical Activity
Oregon Public Health Institute
Oregon State University Extension Service- Clackamas County
