Get Healthy Idaho: Building Healthy and Resilient Communities

GET HEALTHY IDAHO: BUILDING HEALTHY AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES

Get Healthy Idaho is a community-driven, placed-based health initiative striving to improve health outcomes, lower healthcare costs, reduce health disparities and improve health and wellbeing across Idaho.

Get Healthy Idaho is a strategic initiative of the Department of Health and Welfare and represents the Division of Public Health's statewide health improvement plan to address health disparities in Idaho communities. We believe the opportunity to be safe, healthy and resilient should be available everywhere for everyone in Idaho. Get Healthy Idaho is focused on improving priority health indicators (Diabetes, Obesity, Behavioral Health and Unintentional Injury) and their root causes by identifying high-need communities and investing in local collaborative partnerships to create upstream, community-led solutions.

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VISION

"Healthy people living and thriving in safe, healthy and resilient communities"

MISSION

"To create the conditions that ensure all people can achieve optimal health and resiliency"

GET HEALTHY IDAHO COMMUNITIES

Get Healthy Idaho aims to fund one new community per year to achieve our mission of creating the conditions that ensure all people can achieve optimal health and resiliency. The third Get Healthy Idaho funding opportunity was awarded to the Clearwater Economic Development Association (CEDA) focused on the communities of Kamiah and Orofino within Public Health District 2. CEDA began building the Clearwater River Corridor Collaborative during the fall of 2023. The first two Get Healthy Idaho communities are actively implementing community health strategies:

Western Idaho Community Health Collaborative (WICHC) - Elmore County

United Way of Southeastern Idaho - Bannock County