Promoting Healthy Living
Community Outreach Programs
The Lerner Center and our affiliates are engaged in numerous outreach activities including disseminating research findings, providing community education, and working with community partners to conduct research and implement collaborative initiatives to address pressing population health challenges, including the U.S. drug overdose crisis and COVID-19.
Healthy Monday
Learn tips and tricks to jump start your Monday, maintain or promote healthy behaviors and help to end preventable chronic diseases.
Healthy Monday Race Across the US
The Healthy Monday Race Across the U.S. is a 6-week challenge meant to spark friendly competition while creating and continuing health habits related to movement, healthy eating, stress management and improving social connections.
The goal is to get teams from Syracuse, New York to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California by logging their healthy activities. Besides feeling good, teams can also win prizes along the way. Our latest quest ended in October of 2022 and included an evaluation of email nudges by the Maxwell X-Lab.
Community Health Presentations
The Lerner Center has a portfolio of community health presentations that cover Healthy Monday initiatives and best practices for public health program implementation. Examples of these community health presentations include:
- Monday Mile and Creating Accessible Recreation Spaces
- Healthy Monday Program Overview and Implementation
- Health Communication Across the Life Course
- DeStress for Success: Improving College Student Mental Health with a New Healthy Monday Program
Substance Use Plans of Safe Care Workshops
Funded by the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, these workshops teach healthcare providers about Plans of Safe Care (POSC) for mothers with addiction and babies who were substance exposed prior to birth and to increase the use of POSC within healthcare and community health settings.