helping municipal leaders create healthy, prosperous communities
The HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign provides free technical assistance to local government leaders to help them create healthy, prosperous community environments that promote healthy eating and active living in Maryland and Virginia's cities and towns.
Click on the category titles below to learn more.
HEAL assists municipalities to adopt policies that promote healthy food access, such as:
- Farmers' Markets
- Community Gardens
- Healthy Food Retail
HEAL supports cities and towns to adopt policies promoting active lifestyles, including:
- Joint Use of Facilities
- Complete Streets
- Comprehensive Plan Updates
HEAL provides municipalities with resources to adopt policies that create a healthy municipal workforce, such as:
- Healthy Vending
- Healthy Meeting
- Walking Meetings* (new fact sheet HERE)
- Open Stairwells
- Nutrition Standards
Heal update:
Check out our new Spotlight Series to learn about HEAL in our Maryland and Virginia Cities and Towns
the institute for public health innovation is grateful for the generous support of KAISER PERMANENTE, founding partnerThe of the HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign of the mid-atlantic
Kaiser Permanente’s mission is “to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. We believe that good health belongs to everyone and that a community is healthy when every person who lives in it reaps the benefits of access to health care, availability of healthy food, sound public policies, and supportive environments. Through the Community Benefit Department, KP makes financial, material, and human resource investments across the Mid-Atlantic region to directly address health care issues and eliminate health inequities in our communities.” Learn more about Kaiser Permanente: www.kaiserpermanente.org