Healthy Hub
HEALTHY LIVING HUB
Read up on a variety of health topics, learn more about affecting positive change, share tips and ideas and stay on top of the latest community events.
Protect Your Liver and Its Many Functions
| Fitness, health issues, Healthy Living | healthy liver
Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Center provides tips for protecting your liver from nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Family Habits to Energize for Life
| child health, Fitness, Healthy Living | family activities, stress relief
Here are some fresh summer family activity ideas for a healthy, active summer to inspire kids and their adults all year long
Healthy Healthcare
| health issues, Healthy Living, mental health | pets, stress relief
April is National Stress Awareness Month. Along with stress-relief standards like meditation, exercise, and restful sleep, scientific studies continue to prove a pet’s ability to ease stress and improve overall health.
Pets for Less Stress
| health issues, Healthy Living, mental health | pets, stress relief
April is National Stress Awareness Month. Along with stress-relief standards like meditation, exercise, and restful sleep, scientific studies continue to prove a pet’s ability to ease stress and improve overall health.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus RSV: Out of the Shadows
| child health, health issues, Healthy Living | community foundation, pottstown
Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation (PAHWF) explains why we are hearing more about Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) these past couple years—and how to avoid it.
Brushing Up on Kids’ Dental Health
| child health, dental, Healthy Living | community foundation, pottstown
Forty percent of children experience tooth decay by kindergarten. Start young to develop positive dental habits early. Good dental health can prevent diseases and improve overall health for life.
Mission
healthy living
Gain greater control over your health with the area’s most dependable free online community. Read up on a variety of health topics, get a new recipe, learn more about affecting positive change, share tips and ideas and stay on top of the latest community events.
Our role in the Pottstown community is multi-faceted.
Aside from grantmaking, we also serve the Pottstown area by:
- Acting as a convener of non-profit, governmental, educational, and municipal entities to encourage conversations that will ultimately serve as a catalyst to create positive and health-related systemic change in Pottstown.
- Focusing on programs and services that build long-term solutions to meet the current and future health needs in the Pottstown service area.
- Coordinating and funding non-profit resources and sponsoring professional development programs for our grantees as well as to the nonprofits in the region.
- Leading the Healthy Schools collaborative group.
- Providing health and wellness information and resources on the Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation and Mission Healthy Living websites.
- Collaborating with representatives at the regional and state level, and local municipalities to improve the parks and trail systems in our area.
- Committing to the use and maintenance of the resources of our long-term endowment effectively and efficiently.
Fun & Fitness
Our List of Parks and Destinations
Want to get outside? Here is a list of great locations where you can get out and move, right here in the Pottstown area.
