Partners For A Healthier Community Inc

The live well springfield coalition is a collaborative effort to advance and sustain a comprehensive, collaborative, functioning coalition that recognizes and supports grassroots, organizational and individual initiatives while being "proud participants" of a broader citywide effort to create a healthy sustainable springfield with regards to physical activity and healthy eating. Live well springfield strategies that are convened by partners for a healthier community include - climate justice and age friendly efforts.

The coalition building services provide convening services for both multisector collaborations and individual organizations. Projects include healthcare projects, youth health, and county wide health improvement planning efforts.

The pvac is a collaborative effort to bring about an alignment of local interests and initiatives to address asthma. The following is a typical partnership fashioned by the coalition: pvac, bmc healthnet plan and baycare health partners are working together using healthy homes principles and community health workers ("chws") and nurses to identify, remediate and prevent environmental exposures in the home that trigger asthma. These chws conduct home visits with hundreds of families of pediatric asthma patients to educate them about home environmental exposures and methods of remediation and provide them with tools and services to aid in remediation.