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Changing our health means ensuring conditions where everyone has the opportunity to be healthy. We all have a role to play:

Build a nation of safe, healthy communities

Health must be a priority in designing our communities, from healthy housing to parks and playgrounds. Walking and biking must coexist with cars and public transportation. We need lower levels of violence and crime so everyone can safely live, work, learn and play. Support farmers markets and local businesses that […]

Adults, age 18 and older, and adults with family members, who have a mental health illness and/or drug or alcohol problem are encouraged to take a brief online survey. Survey results will be used to improve behavioral health services in Hernando County and divert individuals away from the criminal justice system and into treatment. The survey is being conducted by WellFlorida Council for LSF Health Systems. Survey participants can enter to win a $25 gift card. To take the survey, go to http://www.wellflorida.org/surveys/. For more […]

Please join North Central Florida Cancer Control Collaborative (NCFCCC) Wednesday, March 29, 2017 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. for our 3rd quarter meeting, to be held via conference call. Join the call to learn about our exciting upcoming events for which we are planning, such as partnering with Suwannee River Area Health Education Center (AHEC) for their 9th Annual Rural Tobacco Summit, and planning an event to raise awareness of and provide information about HPV Cancer Prevention.

We will be discussing what opportunities and events […]

Central Healthy Start and Healthy Start of North Central Florida have released the winter issue of A Healthy Start. Designed for pregnant women and mothers with children up to age three, the bulletins are published by WellFlorida Council and Healthy Start. Topics include birth spacing, gestational diabetes, birth plans, coping with crying and more. Both English and Spanish versions of the bulletin are available at www.CentralHealthyStart.org as well as www.HealthyStartNCF.org. Bulletins are being distributed to pediatricians, hospitals, prenatal clinics and community agencies across 16 counties. […]