Guiding Principles

We Collaborate. Community partners work together to share resources, plan local initiatives and set priorities.

We Focus on Primary Prevention. Community partners plan and implement initiatives that embrace one or more of the key healthy lifestyle messages and utilize strategies from programs that are known to be effective.

We Educate, Enable and Support Healthy Lifestyle Choices. Community partners promote healthy lifestyles through comprehensive health promotion approaches including awareness, education, building supportive environments, and policy development and implementation.

We aim for Sustainability. Community partners plan and implement initiatives that have: the commitment and enthusiasm of the coalition; sufficient availability of resources; and the potential for sustainability of the activity and/or its outcomes/benefits where appropriate.