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Healthy Savannah, Inc.

Healthy Savannah, Inc., a coalition of 100 members, has been working to make Chatham County (Georgia) a healthier place to live. The coalition’s goals include increasing access to nutritious food, creating distribution and retail implementation plans, and changing policies that are barriers to access to healthy food and active transportation.

The coalition is promoting access to healthy food in Chatham County by:

  1. Conducting a food system needs assessment;
  2. Connecting local farmers to new institutional customers;
  3. Developing policy recommendations to promote food access in at-risk communities; and
  4. Activating elected and appointed officials to incorporate health into decision making.

“The Plan4Health grant has made a significant difference as it has allowed us to move more quickly to deepen our food system study and to broaden our already strong coalition.”
– Paula Kreissler, Director of Healthy Living & Community Development

Learn more about our impact:

Success Story: April 2016                                                   Success Story: September 2015                    Mini-webinar                                                                

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Project Fact Sheet                                                                 Project Presentation

healthy savannah fact sheet                                                                    healthy savannah pres

In the News:

Coalition Members:
Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission
Georgia Department of Public Health Coastal Health District
Memorial Health University Medical Center
Savannah Chatham County Public School System
Savannah Chatham Food Policy Council
Transport Studio

Key Partnership

The American Planning Association’s Planning and Community Health Center has partnered with the American Public Health Association at the national level. This key partnership ensures that the conversations, lessons learned, and experiences of towns and cities across the country are part of the national agenda to prevent chronic diseases.