In an effort to carry the neighborhood collectively and make Blair County more healthy, the Wholesome Blair County Coalition held its fifth annual Let’s Transfer Blair County Day at Lakemont Park on Thursday.
Selling wholesome life and elevating consciousness for health-related neighborhood sources is a objective of the coalition, based on Coleen Heim, director, noting the native motion is modeled after former first woman Michelle Obama’s Let’s Transfer marketing campaign.
Each three years the coalition conducts a neighborhood wants well being evaluation the place 3,000 random households are surveyed on their issues relating to Blair County. One of many prime solutions is at all times “the must be more healthy,” Heim stated.
In line with a report by the Robert Wooden Johnson Basis, in 2010, Blair County’s well being weighed in at No. 63 out of the state’s
67 counties. In March of 2021, they have been ranked thirty ninth, she stated.
“We wish to proceed to make Blair County more healthy,” Heim stated. “Not simply bodily however economically, socially, emotionally, mentally.”
Among the many sources out there to native residents is the CHIP program, stated Scott Crawford from UPMC for Children. This 12 months, the Youngsters’s Well being Insurance coverage Program marks its fifteenth anniversary in Pennsylvania. He stated that regardless of sources like CHIP, about 4% of youngsters stay uninsured in Pennsylvania.
Crawford handed out data and talked in regards to the CHIP program to occasion attendees.
He additionally handed out wholesome meal and snack recipes, a few of which have been geared towards choosy eaters, he stated.
At one other sales space, the YMCA supplied instructional materials on COVID-19 and data relating to the Y’s evidence-based well being intervention applications.
Different actions on the occasion included a free throw competitors held by the Penn State Altoona males’s basketball staff and video games of cornhole.
Upcoming occasions from Let’s Transfer Blair County embody the Lively Dwelling STEPS Problem being held from Sept. 11 to Nov. 6. The objective is for contributors to collectively attain 200 million steps.
The STEPS Problem begins Sept. 11 to coincide with the inaugural First Responder Memorial Race organized by the Appalachian Operating Firm. The 5k race will likely be held at Lakemont Park and is open to runners and walkers. All proceeds from the race will profit AMED in Altoona, stated John Myers, Wholesome Blair County Coalition member and Appalachian Operating Firm regional supervisor.
