SPOOKY STEPS LEAD TO A HEALTHEIR HALLOWEEN Halloween is the perfect time for fun family walking and teaching children safety Halloween is the perfect night to leave your car at home and spend the evening walking with your family to trick-or-treat. This year, Heartland Healthy Neighborhoods is offering safety tips for Halloween night and year-round… Read More

HALLOWEEN TREATS Small changes teach healthy habits without spoiling the fun for kids While Halloween is every child’s dream holiday, it can be a parent’s nightmare. This year, Heartland Healthy Neighborhoods suggests ways to teach children about healthy eating without depriving them of coveted Halloween treats. To prevent children from candy gorging and stop the… Read More

2015 COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PLAN RELEASED APRIL 2, 2015 Throughout 2014, Heartland Healthy Neighborhoods workgroups — Healthy Babies, Health Eating/Active Living, and Access for Transportation and Knowledge of Services — engaged community volunteers and organizations in creating the 2015 Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) to address the issues identified in the Community Health Needs Assessment.… Read More

MAKING HEALTH EATING EASIER: FARMERS MARKETS A Farmers Market is a venue at which farmers sell agricultural products and food directly to the general public. Interest in farmers’ markets is growing across Kansas, with the number of markets increasing more than four-fold in the past 20 years. Consumers get to build unique relationships directly with… Read More

BUILDING A BETTER COMMUNITY BY MIRANDA ERICSSON Everyone who lives in Topeka uses our transportation system to get where they need to go. Everyone. Our streets are set up to serve automobile traffic; it isn’t always easy to get around town by other means. Many of our city’s sidewalks are damaged or missing altogether, and… Read More

SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL EQUAL HEALTHIER KIDS BY MIRANDA ERICSSON This article provided by Heartland Healthy Neighborhoods originally appeared in the May 2015 issue of Topeka Health & Wellness Magazine. Imagine a little girl and a boy on their morning walk to school. They step quickly, side by side, wearing colorful backpacks. The girl is… Read More