Promoting Healthy Communities

Working with individuals, communities, healthcare, schools, and worksites to help make Goodhue County a healthy place to live, learn, work and play. We promote wellness and behaviors that prevent disease.

Key Principles

• Upstream: Focus on prevention, such as healthy eating rather than cancer or heart disease
• Community Engagement: Share ownership of work through collaborations and partnerships
• Health Equity: Aim for the highest level of health for all residents
• Policy, System, and Environmental Change: Make healthy choices easy, safe, and affordable
• Evidence-Based: Choose interventions that have been shown to work

What We Do:

Health Assessment and Planning
Emergency Preparedness and Response
Prevention and Population Health Improvement

• Healthy Eating & Active Living: Live Well Goodhue County      
• Housing Resource Specialist
• Tobacco-Free Living: Live Well Goodhue County
• Traffic Safety: Toward Zero Deaths (TZD)

Community Partnerships

• Mental Health Coalition of Goodhue County
• Goodhue County Child and Family Collaborative