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Causes: Health
Mission: Our vision is to build equitable communities where everyone can lead healthier and happier lives through physical, social, and emotional wellbeing by co-designing sustainable change and promoting equity and wellbeing accross the life span.
Programs: Health foundation of south florida miami-dade age-friendly initiative (afi) - is a collaborative effort focused on sustainable changes and efforts in order to create a community where older adults of all ages can stay active, engaged, and healthy with dignity and enjoyment. Uhp coordinates between community stakeholders, organizations, and resdients to implement this coutry-wide initiative effort to make miami-dade a great place for healthy aging in place. Live healthy little havana - is an initiative promoting healthier living with the goal to strengthen community capacity to improve the lives of little havana residents. Uhp leads several efforts as part of the live healthy little havana initiative, including the little havana on the move and let's go/vamonos campaign to promote physical activity and active transportation throughout the neighborhood. Shade - the shade project (shaping healthy, active, deep-rooted environments) aimed to cultivate tree-shaded spaces to promote physical activity in two underserved communities that are part of hfsf's live healthy community partnerships initiative. Uhp led the identification of locations for tree planting. The project was sucessful communities that are part of hfsf's live healthy community partnerships initiative. Uhp led the identification of locations for tree planting. The project was successful in strategically planting over 200 trees in miami gardens. Little havana to incentivize residents to engage in physical recreation and/or excercise.
healthy community zones (broward regional health planning council) healthy community zones initiative is a project from broward regional health planning council's (brhpc) partnerships transforming our community's health (touch) initiative. Touch oversees the planning, implementation and evaluation of numerous community health interventions, as well as empowering professionals, organizations and community residents to coordinate and scale their efforts in innovative ways and therefore maximize results. Uhp provides technical assistance to touch and the communities involved in the healthy community zones including community action plan development and implementation.
various other programs and projects such as broward complete streets & america walks walking college. These programs meet the organization's goal to promote healthy and sustainable communities where people can actively, safeley and conveniently access their daily needs through quality air, transporation, food options and social opportunities.