Healthy Hub
HEALTHY LIVING HUB
Read up on a variety of health topics, learn more about affecting positive change, share tips and ideas and stay on top of the latest community events.
Headache Help
| health issues, Healthy Living | headaches, self-care, wellness
May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month and Physical Fitness and Sports Month. It is time to recognize these two can be observed together. We share how to exercise to clear your head and strengthen your lungs.
Exercise to Help Allergies & Asthma
| Fitness, Healthy Living | fitness, physical fitness, self-care, wellness
May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month and Physical Fitness and Sports Month. It is time to recognize these two can be observed together. We share how to exercise to clear your head and strengthen your lungs.
Keep America Beautiful
| Fitness, Healthy Living | environment, fitness, holiday
Celebrated as we kick off spring in April, Keep America Beautiful Month gives everyone a chance to help Mother Nature in her renewed efforts to refresh our earth. Whether inspired…
Prep Your Diet to Celebrate National Nutrition Month
| Healthy Eating, Healthy Living | accessibility, ADA Compliance, computer accessibility, disabilities
March is National Nutrition Month. Good nutrition can boost our energy and immunity after a sleepy season spent indulging on comfort foods and leftover holiday sweets.
Cancer Prevention Through a Healthier Lifestyle
| Education, Healthy Eating, Healthy Living | cancer, cancer prevention
February is National Cancer Prevention month. With most of the year still ahead, it is an opportune time to consider lifestyle changes to help you prevent cancer or detect it. Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation (PAHWF) shares best practices to keep you and your loved ones cancer-free.
Are You at Risk? January Is National Radon Action Month
| Healthy Living, preparedness, safety | home, home safety, radon, safety
Sharing presents during the holidays is one of life’s greatest joys. However, thousands of children are hurt or killed every year from playing with unsafe or inappropriate toys. Follow these basic safety precautions.
Mission
healthy living
Gain greater control over your health with the area’s most dependable free online community. Read up on a variety of health topics, get a new recipe, learn more about affecting positive change, share tips and ideas and stay on top of the latest community events.
Our role in the Pottstown community is multi-faceted.
Aside from grantmaking, we also serve the Pottstown area by:
- Acting as a convener of non-profit, governmental, educational, and municipal entities to encourage conversations that will ultimately serve as a catalyst to create positive and health-related systemic change in Pottstown.
- Focusing on programs and services that build long-term solutions to meet the current and future health needs in the Pottstown service area.
- Coordinating and funding non-profit resources and sponsoring professional development programs for our grantees as well as to the nonprofits in the region.
- Leading the Healthy Schools collaborative group.
- Providing health and wellness information and resources on the Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation and Mission Healthy Living websites.
- Collaborating with representatives at the regional and state level, and local municipalities to improve the parks and trail systems in our area.
- Committing to the use and maintenance of the resources of our long-term endowment effectively and efficiently.
Fun & Fitness
Our List of Parks and Destinations
Want to get outside? Here is a list of great locations where you can get out and move, right here in the Pottstown area.
