Promoting Health and Wellness
Community Health and Wellness activities are plentiful throughout each year, thanks to the generous funding of the Mary Rutan Foundation. Periodic Community Health Risk & Needs Assessments determined primary focus areas. Most recently the Foundation has centered its attention on substance abuse, improving mental health for children and adults and childhood obesity. Mary Rutan Champions canvas Logan, Champaign, Hardin, and Shelby counties with health education, health screenings, sports physicals, participation at community events, programming at schools and more. Additionally, the Foundation makes available community grants and scholarships.
The following are specific programs offered:
- My Plate
- Farm to Fork
- Scoop on Poop
- Re-think Your Drink
- Billy Bones, Stinky Pete, & Snotty Lottie
- A Little SPOT - social emotional learning
- Power Up 4 Fitness
- Catch My Breath
- NOT - Not on Tobacco - Teen cessation
- Smokeless 101
- General vaping education & prevention including marijuana use
- Organ Donation/Bioethics
- CPR / First Aid
- Dining with Diabetes
- Creating A Healthy Me
- Matter of Balance
- Chronic Disease series