b'About Vision 2020 and this Community Update Onwards and UpwardsVision 2020 is a community engagement initiative designed to foster and sustain a positive culture of healthWhen we live in a community where healthy choices are readily available to us, it is easier to make good choices throughout the 23 towns of Cheshire County. Founded and developed by Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth- about the foods we eat and how we spend our leisure time. And when our neighbors and friends are making healthy Hitchcock Keene in 2007, Vision 2020s activities are being guided in the community by the Healthiestchoices by shopping at farmers markets, walking their kids to school, riding their bikes to work, quitting smoking Community Advisory Board, a group of 30 individuals representing schools, organizations, coalitions, andand losing weight, we cant help but become inspired!businesses.The Board works to create the common agenda that defines the boundaries of Vision 2020 and sets a strategic action framework. It meets regularly (6 times/year) to oversee the overall progress of the initiative. Vision 2020 has been working over the past year to inspire people to make healthier choices.We have helped support community efforts in workplaces, clubs, schools, nonprofit and local government groups to improve access This update is a follow up to the Vision 2020 Update booklet released in October 2011 and the Cheshire Countyto nutritious foods and safe physical activity.Healthiest Community Plan released in early 2010. The indicators being used to measure our progress have been reworked and updated and there are lots of examples of how Vision 2020 Champions are helping to make theWe applaud our Vision 2020 organizational and individual Champions who have worked tirelessly and healthy choice the easy choice for everyone in our community. Vision 2020 Partners are profiled and you willenthusiastically helping people in our community eat better, move more, get enough sleep, regularly visit their learn about their progress implementing many of the action strategies from the first round of planning. doctors, manage stress, get recommended health screenings, quit smoking and consume alcohol in moderation. In this booklet weve highlighted some of what our Champions have done to move our community closer to The Healthiest Community Advisory Board: becoming the healthiest in the nation by the year 2020: from city committees making it safer for our kids to walk or Amy Bodwell, Andy Bohannon, Polly Chandler, Liz Coppola, Harriet Davenport, Ro Dettelback,bike to school, to a local food coalition increasing access to fresh food to various economic groups, to a community Rudy Fedrizzi, Maich Gardener, Marylee Greaves, Ed Guyot, Pat Hitchner, Deb Hunter, Ralphprogram helping workplaces become advocates for healthy living, and more. Jernberg, Maryanne Keating, Laura Keith King, Cheryl Martin, Tiffany Mathews, MarilynThese have been important steps toward moving us to our goal. But more needs to be done.Morel, Ryan Owens, Christine Parshall, Kelsey Plifka, Linda Rubin, Judy Sadoski, Peter Sebert, Kelly Steiner, Susy Thielen, Anthony Triano, Tricia Wadleigh, Casey Wilson, Phil WyzikWe need more Champions like youparents, teachers, coaches, employees, business owners, civic leaders, teenagers, college students, young or oldwho care about the health of our community and want it to be the best place to live, learn, work and play.Acknowledgements:To become the healthiest community in the nation by 2020 is a challenge we have taken on. We know it is one of the Thank you to all of the Partners who have been working toward bringing Vision 2020 to life and achievingbest things we can do for our regionand one we know we can meet. Yes, these next seven years will be a steep our goal of becoming the healthiest community in the nation. Additional thanks and appreciation go to theclimb to make it to the top. But any of us who have hiked Mt. Monadnock know that when you are climbing there is Vision 2020 Champions, the Champions Advisory Board, members of the Vision 2020 action planning groups,only one way to go if you want to make it to the topand that is, in the wise words of Risa Lavizzo-Moureys guide the Healthiest Community Advisory Board, Antioch New England Institute of Antioch University New England,who helped her to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro:Onwards and upwards.various state and local funders and the Community Health Department of Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene. Yours in health,For more information about Vision 2020 contact the Community Health Department of Cheshire Medical Center/ Liz Coppola, Chair, Vision 2020 Healthiest Community Advisory BoardDartmouth-Hitchcock Keene(603) 354-5454 ext 3930www.healthiestcommunity.org Coming Soon!www.facebook.com/Vision2020HealthiestcommunityA new name and brand that www.youtube.com/Healthiestcommunity will expand the power of our www.pinterest.com/nhvision2020vision to become the healthiest www.twitter.com/HealthiestComm community in the nation and To explore opportunities to make a donation to the Vision 2020 healthiest community initiative,engage more youth, adults and please contact the Cheshire Health Foundation at 354-5403. seniors as Champions for change.In photo: From left to right: Peter Sebert, Pat Hitchner, Ro Dettelback, Linda Rubin, Christine Parshall, Harriet Davenport, Deb Hunter, Rudy Fedrizzi, Marj Droppa, Liz Coppola, Amy Bodwell, Maich Gardener, Ed Guyot1'