Fit Community designations and grants reward North Carolina communities for
creating and implementing a sustainable action plan to avoid or remedy preventable
chronic health problems in their area.
A
Fit Community designation award recognizes municipalities and counties that have excelled in meeting the behavioral, place-based, and community action criteria (outlined in Section II.). Designations are awarded at four levels—Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze—and are valid for three years.
Below are the definitions of each award level:
- Platinum - A model community with tremendous support and opportunities across all key environments to enable healthy lifestyles among residents. Great potential to share lessons and knowledge with other communities.
- Gold - Outstanding achievements in supporting healthy lifestyles across all key environments; potential still exists to bring about more supports.
- Silver - Significant progress in making healthy lifestyles more accessible across the community; gaps in some areas suggest potential for future achievements.
- Bronze - Demonstrated efforts to making healthy lifestyles more accessible in the community; greater gaps suggest ample potential to strengthen local supports.
Below are the benefits of being named a
Fit Community Designee:
- Top designee recipients earn - The Platinum award sets a very high standard, and HWTF will ensure special and highly visible recognition and opportunities for exclusive media coverage for applicants who attain this distinction; Platinum and Gold designees receive highway signage for the entrance to their community.
- All designee recipients earn - A Fit Community plaque to be hung in the Mayor’s or County Commissioner’s office; Recognition in statewide media and on the Fit Community web site; Use of the Fit Community designation logo for use at the recipient’s discretion; Brochures to distribute to community residents and others.
- Past designation applicants report additional positive outcomes - Improved communication and collaboration among different stakeholders / new partners in the community; New momentum and an advocacy tool within the community for policy and environmental changes that support routine physical activity and healthy eating; Ideas for potential new projects based on the community’s strengths and weaknesses; Supporting data and material for use in other fund raising initiatives.
By providing a grant-funding component, the
Fit Community program aims to increase
the number of communities that are able to attain this honorable distinction in
the future.
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