Highlights
HLLP Blog
Healthy Lifestyle La Plata is blogging!
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to build a healthier America
Comprehensive Database Features Nutrition, Physical Activity, Early Childhood, Tobacco and Healthy Communities Resources
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NCCOR
National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research
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Tools of Change
Proven Methods of promoting Health, Safety, and Environmental Citizenship.
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Healthy Lifestyle La Plata Collaborates on Farm-to-School Grant
HLLP colaborated with Healthy Community Food Systems on a Farm-to-School grant.
The award was recently announced. Read the article in
the LiveWell Colorado newsletter.
Jane Jacobs, Vincent Scully Prize winner, talk now available
Watch the video of this 30-minute talk at the National Building Museum given Nov. 11, 2000.
Healthy Lifestyle La Plata taking multi-pronged approach to a “healthy community”
Read the article by Indiana Reed on Durango Downtown (Sept. 25, 2009).
To empower and support Durango and La Plata County in becoming
an interconnected community where citizens and visitors have access to
affordable, local, nutritous and culturally appropriate food

and are
empowered to live a healthy, active and sustainable lifestyle.
Healthy
Lifestyle La Plata (HLLP) is a coalition of health & wellness
professionals who are working to create a healthy,
active and sustainable
community for its citizens and many visitors. It is comprised of three
subcommittee’s, each with a specific wellness focus – Healthy Local Foods,
Worksite Wellness and Active Community Environment.
HLLP received LiveWell Colorado grant funding starting in 2006 that will continue until 2013. This funding has enabled HLLP to set in motion goals based on healthy eating and increasing physical activity among target populations, namely the working poor, men aged 45-64, children/youth and seniors. As of the end of 2009, LiveWell funding has totaled almost $700,000.00 dollars brought into our community to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors.
