Physical Activity and Nutrition

• Safe Routes to School is a comprehensive program based on a simple premise: our kids should be able to safely walk and bike to school. Walking and biking to school helps students develop independence, improves academic performance, helps reduce traffic congestion and air pollution, and helps create a stronger community.

• Local Motion, Vermont’s statewide nonprofit walk-bike advocacy organization, assists with the non-infrastructure side of the Safe Routes to School program, answering questions and providing guidance to partner schools.

• The mission of Newport Parks and Recreation is to provide the citizens of Newport with a broad selection of high quality recreational opportunities through facilities and programs and to enhance the quality of life for all ages. They work to create community through people, parks and programs.

• North Country Career Center Indoor Walking Path: North Country Career Center Adult Education 802-334-5469 extension 3305.

• Our Town, Slow Down: Creating safe streets for all our residents and visitors.

• Newport City Renaissance Corporation: The Newport City Renaissance Corporation is a private nonprofit organization. They provide leadership and volunteer management for resource development, project management, technical assistance and skills which assist volunteers in designing effective programs for economic restructuring, design and promotion.

• The Wellness Center is the place to go for fitness, fun and health! The Center offers a variety of health and fitness classes aimed at helping you reach your fitness goals and achieve greater overall wellness. They offer yoga, pilates, spinning and strength training just to name a few. 

• Healthy Community Design 

• Newport Vermont - AARP Age-Friendly Community: Well-designed, livable communities promote health and sustain economic growth, and they make for happier, healthier residents — of all ages.

• Upper Kingdom Food Access is a community initiative which focuses on Orleans and Northern Essex Counties. The vision of Upper Kingdom Food Access is healthy outcomes from better eating, and its mission is to foster better eating through education about choices in the food system.

• The mission of Green Mountain Farm to School is to restore and strengthen local food systems in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont by promoting positive economic and educational relationships among schools, farms and communities. We create healthy communities by working across the food system with capacity building, resource development, and technical assistance through Green Mountain Farm to School’s school gardens, Farm to School program, food hub, food truck, and statewide marketing campaign.

• The Center for an Agricultural Economy works to engage the public in building a regenerative, locally based, healthy food system through collaboration opportunities, food access and hunger relief, educational outreach and providing infrastructure.

• Northeast Kingdom Hunger Council is a comprehensive, locally-supported anti-hunger model which brings together community leaders to identify strengths and challenges in the local nutrition safety net and mobilize to improve access to food and nutrition.

• Island Pond Community Garden:  802-723-6184 

A simple and powerful model for communicating the message about preventing chronic disease, 3-4-50 is a community health improvement strategy. It is based on evidence that three health behaviors lead to four chronic conditions that together cause more than fifty percent of deaths in Vermont.