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.
Disabilities Resources and Awareness
| Education, Healthy Living, mental health | disabilities, disability resources
Doing More for Disabilities Over 7 million individuals in the U.S. have an intellectual or developmental disability. Yet, only 20 percent were known to their state developmental disabilities agency. The…
Steps to Reduce Skin Cancer
| Education, Healthy Living | cancer, prevention, skin cancer
Don’t Get Burned With sun-filled weeks on the horizon, it makes sense that May is National Skin Cancer Awareness Month. As we spend increasingly more time enjoying the Great Outdoors,…
How to Boost Your Immunity
| Education, Fitness, Healthy Living | immunity
There are a number of ways you can help your body fight off infections, viruses and disease, and here are a few tips on how you can start boosting your…
Get Help With Substance Abuse
| Education, Healthy Living, Mental Health, Substance Abuse | child grief, coping
Substance Abuse Continues to Rise If you or someone you love struggles with addiction, you are not alone. Over a 12-month period ending in October 2021, approximately 105,752 people died…
How to Support a Grieving Child
| Education, Healthy Living, Mental Health | child grief, coping
Small Hearts, Big Breaks: Helping Children Grieve Kids react to grief differently than adults. Sadly, these times have provided an introduction to grief, perhaps prematurely. Pottstown Area Health and Wellness…
Music’s Place in Medicine
| Education, Healthy Living
Pottstown Takes a Look at Music Therapy From bringing back a moment in time to uplifting a heavy mood, music makes an impact. Experts realize this, including those at Pottstown…
Mission
healthy living
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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.
