Join the Healthy Hosting Initiative

Healthy Hosting Initiative: 

A simple way to provide valuable health information and screening services to the public at a single event. Any event open to families or community can become a healthy hosting event by incorporating wellness resources and activities into the existing itinerary. These might include but are not limited to: wellness fairs, fundraisers, open houses, sporting events, etc.

Healthy Fundraising adheres to the following guidelines:

• Opportunities to promote physical activity. 
• Healthy snack and/or non-food incentives/reinforcements in lieu of candy or other non-nutritious treats.
• Information on local wellness resources.
• Promotion of local foods.

The AHH Community Coalition will provide:

• Information, education, and assistance for organizations to create guidelines, practices, and/or policies to ensure that wellness fairs and other community events support a healthy lifestyle. 
• Assistance with updating current wellness policies and procedures. 
• Signs, posters, handouts, and/or other educational materials to promote health and nutrition at community events as well as attempt to participate in events whenever possible.
• Recognition through social and traditional media.

Organizations wishing to implement this initiative will:

• Create practices and/or policies to make the healthy choice the easy choice at events for children and community members.
• Provide education for managers and staff as needed.
• Display signs, posters, handouts, and/or other educational materials to promote health and nutrition in prominent locations.

More Tools and Resources:

• The NNY Directory of Community Services
• Healthy Hosting Toolkit

Last updated July 31, 2019