PHC YMCAs Visioning Success

Pioneering Healthier Communities YMCAs gathered in Arlington, Virginia this week, in the PHC Coaches Conference for the 2009 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant recipients, have established "Signs of Success for State Alliance / Statewide PHCs Work":



A thriving learning community - Statewide PHCs will have well-established forums and patterns for learning and sharing at both the local and state levels;



Increasing collaboration on state legislative priorities - Networks, communities, assocations across the respective states will have identified and committed to working together on one or more state-level priorities;



Growing more community-level work - More local communities taking on childhood obesity through policy / environmental change strategies, partly as a result of statewide PHC;



Getting meaningful and measurable results - Clear changes at the state and local level that are observable and measurable.


Pictured are: (L-R) Southington-Cheshire Community YMCA PHC Team members - Howard Thiery, Assistant Superintendent of Schools for Southington, CT; Karen DiGirolamo, Health and Wellness Director at the Southington-Cheshire Community YMCA; John Myers, Executive Director of the Southington-Cheshire Community YMCA