Mission
Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health, wellness, and fitness of communities, thousands of people at a time.
KEEPING KIDS HEALTHY AND ACTIVE AT HOME,
SAFE WHEN THEY GO OUT
Check out our At Home Resources page! Find great resources to engage, entertain, and teach kids with our recommendations for physical fitness, nutrition, gardening and mindfulness activities families can use at home, inside and outdoors. If you need help explaining health measures to your kids, you'll also find kid-friendly videos to help explain about the coronavirus, the need to wear a mask, wash hands, and keep six feet of distance.
LNKTV Health Features
PHL and Partners Monthly
meet our partners
Each month, LNKTV Health features community organizations that are making a difference in our community, great nutrition information and tips to make healthy eating easier, unique and fun ways to be active and highlights featuring inspiring work done by local nonprofits to improve community health.
Watch the latest LNKTV Health productions below and visit LNKTV Health for everything health, wellness, safety, and fitness in our community:
Partnership for a Healthy uses fresh produce and products from local farms to teach kids about nutrition in afterschool programming, Harvest of the Month and Farm to School/Farm to You. These programs lets kids taste test food to help them develop healthy eating habits. This month, dairy products are featured, and this video shows how cheese and yogurt is made from goats' milk featuring some adorable baby goats.
Visit the LNKTV Health You Tube channel for more.
Partnerships Make a Collective Impact
Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln collaborates with non-profits across the city to improve the wellness of our community. Throughout the year, we feature the work our partners do to impact the health and fitness of our city. Each month we spotlight the current highlights and happenings of featured partners. Click on the links to read about them.
April 2024 highlights:
Asian Community and Cultural Center
Community Crops
PHL - Be Part of Our Efforts
PHL - Support Our Initiatives
PHL - Get in Touch With Us
In The News
After 13 years in the same format, Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln (PHL) is putting their annual outreach festival, Streets Alive! on hiatus while they reimagine and refresh it. People can continue to find support resources and creative ideas on the PHL website to help improve the health, safety, and vitality of their neighborhoods.
Getting prenatal care as early as possible substantially lowers the risk of birth defects as well as infant and maternal death. Nebraska's rates are not good. Partnership for a Healthy Nebraska, UNMC, Creighton Medical School, and others have created a strategy with concrete steps to improve access and education.
Heart disease is still the #1 killer of men and women. The American Heart Association - Nebraska has contributed to the health of Nebraskans in several ways including grants for heart research to the Uni. of Nebraska (Lincoln and Omaha) and UNMC. Find some practical tips in to stay heart healthy in the latest Health & the City column.
Interested in community health issues? Stay in touch with the latest news and information on PHL and our partners.
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Check out our Health and the City column on the last Saturday of every month in the Lincoln Journal Star. Read past columns here.
