Forsyth County
Healthy Community Coalition
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mission of the Forsyth County Healthy Community Coalition is to create,
build, and sustain efforts that improve the quality of life of the
residents of Forsyth County.
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Health
Promotion/ Physical Activity:
County-wide initiative to encourage adults (18 years and older) to
engage in physical activity
Health Promotion/ Nutrition: Elementary and Middle School initiative
to implement and evaluate a healthy supplemental snack project in
7 schools
Health Promotion/ Tobacco Use: Develop a multilevel strategy
for the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools to become 100% Tobacco
Free
Health Promotion/ Responsible Sexual Behavior: Develop system
and policy changes to ensure that some form of birth control and emergency
birth control is available for every sexually active woman in our
community
Injury/ Domestic Violence: Develop a community wide education
plan to promote effective prevention, identification, intervention,
and treatment of domestic violence.
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1. Step
Up Forsyth!: County-wide physical activity program that requires
participants to exercise 30 minutes a day, five days a week to
be eligible for incentives. In 2004 approximately 700 residents
logged over 1 million minutes of exercise in an 8 week period.
2. Supplemental Snack Project: Pilot program in 5 elementary
and 2 middle schools in which snack foods offered are those of
a healthier choice such as 100% juice, yogurt, granola bars, etc.
3. "Get to the Root": Training for cosmetologists
on how to provide support by listening and furnishing resource
information for clients that are victims of domestic violence
4. Smoking & Babies Just Don't Mix Campaign: Public
Awareness campaign about effects of smoking and secondhand smoke
on prematurity, low birthweight, and infant mortality.
5. Voter's Registration Drive: In the Fall of 2004, about
468 voters were registered in the Forsyth County Department of
Public Health Lobby. The purpose of the drive was to focus on
populations traditionally under-represented in the voter population,
or who have failed to recognize the importance of registering/re-registering
to keep their voting status current.
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Noted
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Quintana
Clinard, BS, CHES
Forsyth
County Health Department
799 N. Highland Avenue
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Phone: (336) 703-3175
Fax: (336) 727-8034
Email: clinarqm@forsyth.cc
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content updated: tml-10/25/05
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