P4HC

At Partnerships for Healthy Communities (P4HC), we promote health equity through innovative programs, progressive policy and bold environmental changes by enhancing the capacity of our partners, providing technical assistance and consulting and helping people see the possibilities for health. We brake for social justice.

Vision: Through our partnerships, we envision a world where every child, teen and adult has opportunities to easily and affordably choose health and well-being.

Mission: We build teams that advance community health and well-being.

What We Do:

Together in partnership with community members and other agencies, our teams

grow gardens and farmers' markets where there were none,
organize youth to improve school food,
start running programs for middle schoolers,
help school leaders make their classrooms candy free,
organize neighbors to make their streets safer and more walkable,
teach moms & dads how to cook with their kids and shop wisely on a budget,
empower parents to expect medically-accurate, age-appropriate health information for their kids,
work directly with local government agencies to design healthy neighborhoods through community planning, and
give people the tools they need to transform their neighborhoods

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History

Our People

Our board and team members are motivated by a strong sense of social justice and are driven to promote health equity.

Board
Team

Health Priorities

We are shifting the paradigm of health to one of prevention.

At P4HC, we focus on empowering people to design and transform their communities so that all residents can be healthy, happy and whole. Strong neighborhoods are healthy neighborhoods. Our two primary prevention efforts are obesity prevention and unintended pregnancy prevention. Healthy neighborhoods means that streets are safe, kids are walking to school, good food is affordable and accessible, and medically accurate health information is readily available.

Click on one of our four health priorities below to see our goals and corresponding measurable results.

Early Childhood Health
Adolescent Health
Healthy Eating & Active Living
Health Literacy

Community-Based Participatory Approaches

Stay tuned for more information on how we infuse community-driven, evidence-based practice into all our work. Feel free to contact us in the meantime to pick our brains about any of the following examples.

Research & Evaluation
Policy Development & Implementation
Program Development & Implementation
Curriculum Design

Teams

We build teams. These teams approach community health issues from a broad paradigm, linking issues like social cohesion, immigrant integration, economic development and education to health issues like unintended pregnancy and obesity. We act on issues of prevention and health with community members, educators, elected officials and policy makers. Through partnerships with a collaborative spirit, these P4HC-led teams catalyze bold, meaningful and lasting impacts on community health.

Click on the links below to see our current teams and a few examples of the teams that have been successfully sustained through partner agencies.

For more information about how to get involved, contact us at 303-422-2483 or email teams@p4hc.org.

Current Teams
Sustained Teams

Eat Smart, Be Smart©

Eat Smart, Be Smart © is a fun, innovative program that improves nutrition and literacy skills in families. Families explore the five food groups, learn how to read food labels and cook healthy meals, all while reading age-appropriate children’s literature, modeling vocabulary-building behaviors and family conversation skills.

Each class uses Parents and Children Together (PACT), a family literacy model teaching children and parents come together for joint cooking and reading activities and then receive separate training appropriate for their skills and abilities. Participants take home a featured book each class along with a variety of recipes and information tips. The final class features a group field trip to a local grocery store, where parents and children apply the skills and knowledge they have learned.

We offer trainings for the preschool and teen parent versions of the curriculum.

Click on the link to print the Eat Smart, Be Smart brochure in Spanish or English.

English Spanish

For more information: 303.422.2483 or eatsmartbesmart@p4hc.org

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