Project Name: Activate Quad Cities
Relationship to QCHI: QCHI Affiliate Project
Project Description : Activate Quad Cities seeks to create a social and physical environment that encourages healthy lifestyles.
Target Audience : All residents of the Quad Cities.
Start Date/Current Status: Activate Quad Cities was inspired by the YMCA's national effort "Activate America". In the fall of 2006, the Two Rivers YMCA and the Scott County Family YMCA were selected as Pioneering Healthier Communities grant recipients. The grant funded the creation of a community coalition with representatives from the government, school, health care, corporate, faith-based and not-for-profit sectors.
Project Goals and Objectives:
- Reduce obesity/overweight and associated health conditions
- Increase physical activity through coordinated opportunities and programs
- Encourage healthy eating through education and a supportive environment
- Develop culturally sensitive materials and programs
- Partner with and support other organizations with similar goals to improve wellness
- Impact the costs related to obesity and inactivity
- Advocate for policy changes that support healthy lifestyles
- Develop a physically fit workforce to position the Quad Cities as a community of choice for new business
Project Performance/ Accomplishments: The coalition has established five project divisions: Government, Health Schools, Agency and Faith Based, Health Care and Corporate, Communications and Resource Development.
Guiding Coalition:
Bi-State Regional Commission, Denise Bulat
Diocese of Davenport, John Kiley
Illinois Senator 36th District, Mike Jacobs
Lane & Waterman, Ed Carroll
Martin Luther King Jr. Center, Jerry Jones
Moline Foundation, Joy Boruff
Palmer College of Chiropractic, Kevin Cunningham
Pleasant Valley Schools, Jim Spelhaug
Quad City Health Initiative, Nicole Carkner
Rock Island Col Regional Office of Education, Joe Vermeire
Scott County Family YMCA, Tony Calabrese & Frank Klipsch
Two Rivers YMCA, Dan Osterman & Mike Wennekamp
Project Contacts: Christy Filby, Community Wellness Executive, 309-797-3945 ext. 247
Click here to access the Active Quad Cities website
Click here to access information on "Quad City In Motion", May 14 - May 21, 2010