by Caitlin Maloney | Nov 12, 2019 | RiseVT, RiseVT County Initiatives
Rise and Walk Middlebury is a walking program started by Michele Gilbert, RiseVT’s Addison County Program Manager, in partnership with Porter Medical Center. The goal of Rise and Walk is to connect providers with community members and encourage physical activity. Each...
by Caitlin Maloney | Jun 25, 2020 | RiseVT, RiseVT County Initiatives
Early on in the pandemic, the Windsor County RiseVT team based out of Mt Ascutney Hospital & Health Center could not physically interact with their communities, so they took their efforts to keep communities healthy online. RiseVT-Windsor County’s intern,...
by OneCare Vermont | Apr 5, 2021 | News, RiseVT
Listen to Learn about Dinner Together: Policy in Plainer English: Children and Healthy Eating The Policy in Plainer English podcast continues our food in health care season with an episode looking at creative programs for engaging children in healthy diets....
by Caitlin Maloney | Aug 20, 2020 | RiseVT, RiseVT County Initiatives
Healthy Reading Through Newfane Programming developed from a collaboration between the New Brook Elementary School Library and the Moore Free Library in Newfane Vermont in the winter of 2019 through the summer of 2020. These partners wanted to increase programming at...
by Caitlin Maloney | Aug 5, 2019 | RiseVT, RiseVT County Initiatives
RiseVT in Windsor County worked with their Planning and Evaluation Workgroup made up of community partners to develop a strategy to increase the healthy options at local food shelves. This project was twofold. 1) They put out a call for specific healthy food donations...
by Caitlin Maloney | Jun 27, 2020 | RiseVT, RiseVT County Initiatives
The Rise to 5K program began in 2018 in Franklin County as a partnership between RiseVT and the Orthopedics and Rehabilitation program at Northwestern Medical Center. The goal of Rise to 5K is to encourage community members to increase their activity level by offering...
