Maui PHC Team left to right, Front row: Jean Sevilla, Mayor Alan Arakawa, Mike Morris, Councilmember Don Couch. Back Row: Bruce Anderson , Dan Goodfellow, Chris Hart, Will Spence, Wesley Lo
Pioneering Healthy Communities is an initiative moving us to address inactivity and bad eating habits in order to create a healthier community.
With that, I’m happy to be a part of Maui’s Healthy Community Initiative devoted to collaborating with others for the purpose of developing a healthier community.
Maui’s Healthy Community Initiative is joining a nationwide movement to create healthier communities through policy and environmental change strategies. We join the ranks of nearly 200 other Y-USA-funded communities that have committed to improving the health and well-being of our community.
We plan to leave a lasting legacy by using the following strategic objectives and activities:
- Enhancing the importance of a healthy lifestyle;
- Building relationships within the community by focusing on the leading health issues facing Maui;
- Strengthening the capacity for coalition building in Maui;
- Attracting a new set of volunteers to the effort to build a healthy community; and
- Increasing Maui’s ability to promote policy and environmental changes that encourage and support healthy living.
Members of the PHC Team include:
Coaches:
Sandy McGuinness
Andrea Giambrone
Team Members:
Bruce Anderson, DOE Complex Superintendent
Mayor Alan Arakawa
Councilmember Don Couch
David Goode, County of Maui Public Works
Dan Goodfellow, Goodfellow Bros., Inc.
Chris Hart, Chris Hart and Partners
Wesley Lo, Maui Memorial Medical Center
Bill Medeiros, Executive Assistant to the Mayor
Mike Morris, Maui Family YMCA
Charlene Shibuya, State of Hawaii Transportation
Will Spence, County of Maui Planning
About Pioneering Healthier Communities
Each year, a group of YMCAs from across the country is chosen to convene a group of community leaders to serve on PHC teams. The teams are committed to activating their community to increase healthy eating and active living opportunities for their residents. These new teams are chosen via a competitive application process and come together to participate in the annual Activate America: Pioneering Healthier Communities Conference, where they; learn from national experts about evidence-based strategies that build sustainable healthy communities (through changes in policy and the built environment), are provided tools to create these changes, and design action plans for change in their communities.
