About Upper Valley HEAL

The Upper Valley Healthy Eating Active Living Partnership (UV HEAL), hosted by the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, links and supports community members and organizations working together to build a community that embraces healthy lifelong habits of 4-season physical activity and good nutrition. 

Upper Valley HEAL is one of five HEAL NH Community Grantees, working to create a comprehensive approach to reduce the increase in overweight/obesity by addressing policies, practices, and communications of towns and cities, health care providers, schools, child care and after-school programs, recreation programs, workplaces, and food vendors. We have a special focus on Lebanon and the five Mascoma towns, though many of our projects serve a broader area.

To contact Upper Valley HEAL:
Kristen Coats UV HEAL Partnership Coordinator, 603-653-3455.

Upper Valley HEAL Steering Committee: 

Lebanon Schools District, Mascoma School District, Upper Valley Trails Alliance, Lebanon Recreation and Parks, Mascoma Valley Health Initiative, Vital Communities / Valley Food & Farm, Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock

Upper Valley HEAL Collaborators

The Child Care Project at Dartmouth College, Willing Hands Enterprises, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Mascoma Pediatric Clinic, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Buck Road Family Practice, APD Pediatric Practice, Hanover Cooperative Society, Lebanon Canillas Gardens, Lebanon Farmers' Market, Hypertherm, Lebanon Safe Routes to School Task Force, Mascoma Greenway Coalition, Green Mountain Child Care Center (Lebanon and White River Campuses), Children's Center of the Upper Valley, DHMC Child Care, Canaan Recreation Commission, YMCA Camp Coniston, the Mascoma River Greenway Coalition, Health Connections Inc., the CHaD Family Center / Molly's Place, the Boyle Community Pediatrics Program, and Cafe Services.  Many other organizations and individuals have helped UV HEAL continue to support healthy changes in our community!

Funding

Funding for Upper Valley HEAL is provided by the HNHFoundation, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Foundation, Endowment for Health, and New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. HEAL NH, a project of the The Foundation for Healthy Communities provides statewide leadership and technical assistance for NH’s HEAL Initiative. The Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock hosts and provides additional financial support for UV HEAL.