Last week, I went to Jackson for the Health Improvement Organization's Kickoff Event. I had no idea what this meant at first but I figured it would be a good opportunity to meet some new people. It ended up being SUPER cool and extremely inspiring, and I'm so glad I was able to attend.
The Health Improvement Organization is a committee sponsored by Allegiance Health, a hospital in Jackson. Jackson High School sponsored a pretty healthy lunch for everyone (a couple hundred people attended) and following the lunch there was a presentation of the HIO Coordinating Council’s Community Action Plan. The plan is years in the making, and includes a research component, showing the current health statistics of Jackson residents (among the worst in the State of Michigan), as well as a thorough plan for the steps necessary to improve these statistics. Now the plan is completed and ready to be put into action throughout the county. We all received printed copies of the plan and I've been reviewing it in detail over the last week - it's pretty awesome.
It was really great to see a group of people so passionate about improving the health statistics in their area. I was able to get in touch with the leadership who created the plan, and it looks like my work in the schools can be incorporated into the school / kids education component of the overall master plan. Pretty cool step forward.
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