• Providing greater access to nutritious food in the community

    Food Service Guidelines

    Food service guidelines, often referred to as FSG, are standards designed to promote healthier food, beverages, and food service operations in places where food is sold, served, or distributed. By implementing FSG policies and practices, we can increase the availability of nutritious options for consumers, making the healthy choice an easy one.

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  • Improving Cuyahoga County childcare centers

    Early Care & Education

    This strategy works to increase the number of local-level early care and education (ECE) policies and activities that improve whole child wellness, including nutrition, physical activity, and Farm to Early Care and Education (F2ECE).

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  • Increasing opportunities for safe physical activity

    Community Design for Physical Activity

    Bike Cleveland will serve as the lead for the physical activity strategy, working with community partners who aim to increase physical activity and make streets safer for all.

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  • Supporting greater access to nutritious food in the home

    Fruit & Vegetable Incentive Programs

    The fruit and vegetable incentive program strategy is led by the Swetland Center at Case Western. This team works to expand and sustain produce voucher and prescription programs to reduce diet-related chronic conditions in communities with the highest risk or burden of chronic disease.

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From HIP-Cuyahoga to REACH

Health Improvement Partnership-Cuyahoga (HIP-Cuyahoga) recognizes that our neighborhoods and communities are not created equal, and some individuals are born and live in areas where it is challenging to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The conditions in which people live and the opportunities they have form the foundation for health, and without them, people are more likely to live shorter, sicker lives. When healthy living is easier, we all live longer and healthier lives.

Our current 5-year REACH program aims to enhance community health by increasing opportunities for healthy living in areas with the highest risk or burden of lifestyle-related chronic diseases, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure. This program, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, allows the Cuyahoga County Board of Health and community partners to implement evidence-based interventions and activities related to nutrition and physical activity.

Health Matters Here!

What if your doctor asked for your ZIP code on your next visit? Your neighborhood matters when it comes to your health. Your ZIP code can predict how long or healthy you live–but it shouldn’t be this way. Cuyahoga County’s urban residents have the poorest health and the shortest life expectancy, with a gap of up to 20 years compared to their suburban counterparts. To make sure everyone has an equal chance to be healthy, we’re addressing social issues, such as outdated policies and practices, as well as personal challenges, like access to nutritious food and the ability to exercise safely in ALL of our neighborhoods.

 

We know that #HealthMattersHere.

 

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Health in All Policies

Health in All Policies

HIP-Cuyahoga aims to support the health in all policies approach by creating opportunities for everyone in Cuyahoga County to achieve better health. We're collaborating to improve the well-being of all people in our county by incorporating health into decision-making across sectors, systems, and policy areas.

Community Engagement

Community Engagement

HIP-Cuyahoga goes beyond science and includes a community-driven approach to advancing community health. Our partnerships are guided by shared values: moving hearts and minds towards improved health for everyone who lives, works, learns, and prays in the county. We're involving community members in planning, decision making, and actions to make Cuyahoga County a healthier place for all.

Collective Impact

Collective Impact

Collective impact brings people together, in a structured way, to achieve social change. Through the coordination of partnerships, alignment of priorities and actions, and mobilization of resources, HIP-Cuyahoga is making a difference.

Perspective Transformation

Perspective Transformation

HIP-Cuyahoga works with individuals and organizations to help them understand how assumptions about different populations impact their decisions and actions toward health improvement. We engage leaders and community members to see and understand the world in new ways, helping eliminate differences in opportunities to be healthy.