Partners for a Healthier Community

Welcome to the Healthy City Home Page. Use this page to learn more about Fall River's efforts to improve the health and quality of life of those who live or work in the Scholarship City. Just click on the picture or the underlined title bar in each section and you will find more information about every aspect of this initiative.

To see a descriptions of all 164 of the Action Priority projects year by year, click here.
To see related activities that contribute to the health and quality of life in Fall River, click here.
To access the personal health resource pages, click here.
To obtain a PDF copy of the Healthy City Fall River Connection, brochure or report, click here.

What is a Healthy City?
• Characteristics
• WHO definition
• World-wide movement

How Healthy is Fall River?
• Demographics
• Assets
• Challenges

What is the city's vision?
• Visioning
• Recommendations
• Voting

The Healthy City Summit
• Summit Highlights
• Keynote Speaker
• H-P Foundation Grant

The 5 Action Priority Areas
• Safety & Substance Abuse
• Environment & Recreation
• Health Education
• Adult Education & Employment
• Community Planning & Housing

Design Team functions
• Communication
• Education
• Evaluation

Healthy City Fall River is an initiative of the Mayor's Office in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's (DPH) Community Health Network Area organization, Partners for a Healthier Community, Inc., supported by DPH linkage funds and involving all of the people who live or work in the City of Fall River.

Use the following search engine to locate a specific name or word within more than 300 Healthy City Fall River web pages on the Greater Fall River Partners web site or on the World Wide Web:

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