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North Country Health Improvement Initiative

Initial Working Group Meeting Agenda ~ Western Coos

 July 10, 2012

Agenda

1. Introductions

Present: Amy Holmes, Wendy Brousseau, Bruce Showalter, Heidi Barker, Peter

Riviere

2. Introduce Country Health Rankings Website and “Working Together: Guidance and

Tools” Document

Information regarding the website was shared as well as handouts with the above tool

given to participants.

3. Review Results of Health Improvement Summit

Information was reviewed and discussed.

4. Working Group Membership assessment: “Who/What Organizations should be at the

Table?” Recruitment of additional working group members.

This list was compiled once the group decided on a goal, which will start with the

local newspapers.

The News and Sentinel WB

Colebrook Chronicle WB

Union Leader PR

Courier PR

Berlin Daily Sun PR

Caledonia Record PR

Great Northwoods HB

Democrat HB

Berlin Reporter HB

5. Discuss the Goal of the Working Group. What activity/event do we want to focus on?

Ideas were discussed in the group including encouraging restaurants to offer low calorie items on their menus, options for pizza, other than “just veggie”; competitions for each town to challenge each other for the most weight loss, eating the least calories, etc. Information was shared about what communities, hospitals, and schools have for programs and activities, and other groups that focused on addressing obesity and health living. A central place to know what was available with contact information would be helpful to all groups and individuals, and a suggestion was made to have a newspaper insert with all this compiled information, similar to the inserts that contain summer activities and other focused information. The group then decided to contact the local newspapers to attend the next meeting as they would likely have the information needed to begin to “find everything that ‘s out there” and obtain contact information to make available for everyone.

6. Next Meeting

August 23, 2012

3:30pm to 5pm

Granite State Conference Room at the North Country Resource Office Complex. 

Route 3 North, Lancaster 

Fish & Game, UNH Cooperative Extension are housed there

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