MEET A HERO:

Julie Johansen
The principal at Redway Elementary School continues to support its physical activity program for...

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Take the pledge to be a hero!Empower others to eat healthy and be active. Taking the pledge means your group or organization is encouraging access to healthy food and activity options where people work, live, eat and play. Browse our list of heroes, see the goals they’ve set and find one to join that’s right for you -- or create your own goal program for your group or worksite! After you sign up for a FREE Humboldt Healthy Hero account you can pick a goal and get going!  You can also download a pledge form [PDF, 3.8MB], fill it out with your own organization's pledge, and mail it back for inclusion on this website.


Here  are a few popular goals Humboldt Healthy Heroes have created...

THE HERO THE GOAL # of Pledges STARTED
Precision Intermedia Provide healthy organic snacks at work 2 12/2/2010
Julie Johansen 30-minutes WORK DAY MORNING EXERCISE 5 12/2/2010
Melanie Bettenhausen Improve Employee Bike Commuter Access 1 2/28/2011
Humboldt Area Foundation Provide a flexible health and fitness allowance for employees 2 3/4/2011
Redwood Community Action Agency - Fiscal Dept. To take walking breaks at work 3 3/9/2011
HumPAL Stretch breaks during long meetings 3 3/17/2011
Community Health Alliance Designate 2 hours a week for physical activity time. 3/21/2011
St. Joseph Health System - Humboldt County creating healthy communities on the North Coast 9 3/29/2011
Willow Creek Community Resource Center To offer Physical activities to afterschool program and volunteers 4/21/2011
Public Health - Humboldt County Promote health and well being on the North Coast 5/12/2011
Humboldt Student Food Collective To increase the availability of local, organic, sustainably harvested, and healthy food on the HSU campus. 5/20/2011
Willow Creek Community Resource Center Physical activities at after-school program 8/16/2011
North Coast Co-op Educating people on cooking with whole grains and seasonal produce. 8/22/2011
Grow It Right Aquaponics To provide high quality locally raised fish and vegetables to Humboldt County and beyond. 8/24/2011
North Coast Co-op More physical activity during the work day 8/27/2011
Department of Health and Human Services-Health Education division of the Public Health Branch We, the employees of Health Education, pledge to improve access to healthy food and physical activity in our workplace by doing the following: 1 9/26/2011