Mission
Healthy Living

We believe that every member of our community should have equitable opportunities embrace a healthier lifestyle.  Join us to connect with knowledge and resources to take control of your health.

Mental Wellness

Pottstown Area Resources for Mental Wellness

Healthy Eating

Ideas, Recipes & Resources for Eating Better

Fitness

Get in Shape and Stay in Shape With These Resources

Substance Abuse

Pottstown Area resources for Substance Abuse & Addiction

Heart Health

Resources for Keeping Your Heart Healthy

Healthy Hub

HEALTHY LIVING HUB

Read up on a variety of health topics, learn more about affecting positive change, share tips and ideas and stay on top of the latest community events.

Prep Your Diet to Celebrate National Nutrition Month
March is National Nutrition Month. Good nutrition can boost our energy and immunity after a sleepy season spent indulging on comfort foods and leftover holiday sweets.
Cancer Prevention Through a Healthier Lifestyle
February is National Cancer Prevention month. With most of the year still ahead, it is an opportune time to consider lifestyle changes to help you prevent cancer or detect it. Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation (PAHWF) shares best practices to keep you and your loved ones cancer-free.
Are You at Risk? January Is National Radon Action Month
Sharing presents during the holidays is one of life’s greatest joys. However, thousands of children are hurt or killed every year from playing with unsafe or inappropriate toys. Follow these basic safety precautions.
A Guide to Buying Safe Gifts for Children
Sharing presents during the holidays is one of life’s greatest joys. However, thousands of children are hurt or killed every year from playing with unsafe or inappropriate toys. Follow these basic safety precautions.
Avoiding Caregiver Burnout: Practical Tips for Families
Cultivating wellness requires ongoing and evolving effort. It involves taking actions in our best interest to enjoy a healthier existence. Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation shares tips on creating your optimal state of wellbeing, despite life’s challenges
Brighten Your Wellbeing with Emotional Wellness
Cultivating wellness requires ongoing and evolving effort. It involves taking actions in our best interest to enjoy a healthier existence. Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation shares tips on creating your optimal state of wellbeing, despite life’s challenges
Mission

healthy living

Gain greater control over your health with the area’s most dependable free online community. Read up on a variety of health topics, get a new recipe, learn more about affecting positive change, share tips and ideas and stay on top of the latest community events.

Our role in the Pottstown community is multi-faceted.
Aside from grantmaking, we also serve the Pottstown area by:

  • Acting as a convener of non-profit, governmental, educational, and municipal entities to encourage conversations that will ultimately serve as a catalyst to create positive and health-related systemic change in Pottstown.
  • Focusing on programs and services that build long-term solutions to meet the current and future health needs in the Pottstown service area.
  • Coordinating and funding non-profit resources and sponsoring professional development programs for our grantees as well as to the nonprofits in the region.
  • Leading the Healthy Schools collaborative group.
  • Providing health and wellness information and resources on the Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation and Mission Healthy Living websites.
  • Collaborating with representatives at the regional and state level, and local municipalities to improve the parks and trail systems in our area.
  • Committing to the use and maintenance of the resources of our long-term endowment effectively and efficiently.
 
Fun & Fitness

Our List of Parks and Destinations

Want to get outside? Here is a list of great locations where you can get out and move, right here in the Pottstown area.

Walking trail in Pottstown area park

Upcoming Events In the Pottstown Area