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HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAM 4111 `MISSION STATEMENT The Mounds View and New Brighton Healthy People program objective is to build a community of active, healthy people. Health and Fitness opportunities provide a personal awareness that often motivates individuals to choose healthier lifestyle behaviors , thus enhancing their quality of life. THEME "HEALTHY PEOPLE, A COMMUNITY OF ACTIVE , HAPPY PEOPLE" OBJECTIVES To modify existing recreation programs to incorporate the Healthier Lifestyle wellness concept . To aggressively market a wellness concept to an over-communicated society Hire a consultant to creatively develop an image, theme, promotion of materials and logo to represent the theme. Initiate an image change in the response to the national trend toward personal responsibility and well-read, informed, and fitness conscious consumers . A wholistic approach was incorporated considering not just the physical , but the total person ' s needs. GOALS To increase visibility of the Park and Recreation Departments as providing wellness related areas to the communities To improve health behaviors of individuals , families and communities , by encouraging people t � make positive lifestyle changes . To help people increase their knowledge in the areas of: Exercise Nutrition, Stress Management , Mental well-being, Smoking/Chemical use, and Communications . To offer a variety of Health and Fitness options for all age groups . To offer economical , yet quality opportunities to improve lifestyle. To encourage a spirit of community, a social support system. To provide specialized services to community churches , businesses and various private segments of the communities . To emphasize start small steps , but do start, making comfortable progr To offer a reward system for personal commitment and ongoing reinforce