Snowshoe Program
The Healthy Androscoggin (HA) Snowshoe Program works like a lending library system.
HA owns 25 pairs of child-size snowshoes that can be loaned to any organization with youth.
Your organization can request the Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) coordinator, Suzannah, to come to your site to deliver and teach the staff how to use snowshoes. Our snowshoes are available at no cost thanks to United Way grant funding.
The Healthy Androscoggin Snowshoe Program is a fantastic opportunity for schools, early childcare education sites, after-school programs, and other organizations to offer youth a captivating outdoor experience. Snowshoeing is a fun, low-impact physical activity that the whole family can participate in.
Please fill out the request form and someone will contact you shortly.
Active Living
Built Environment
Healthy Androscoggin aims to increase active living in our community by improving the quality of the built environment. We do this by enhancing public spaces and creating opportunities for people to engage in physical activity in their daily life. When there are safe sidewalks, parks, and creative community spaces people are more likely to be active. By changing our physical landscape, we can make positive changes to our health.
Built Environment Projects
StoryWalk
StoryWalk is a book that has been dismembered, laminated and presented page by page on a trail, bike path, or in a store window to promote reading and exercise. StoryWalk moves frequently.
Edible Lisbon Street
Edible Lisbon Street transforms city streets into places where food and farmers find a space in the public eye. These boxes promote exercise, community participation, and curiousity about fresh food and local farms. All seeds and plants have been donated by farmers here in Androscoggin county. Thank you to all who helped this project come to fruition.
5-2-1-0 Let’s Go!
Let’s Go! is an obesity prevention initiative working with communities to create environments that support healthy choices. Bringing evidence-based strategies for healthy living into schools, early care and education programs, out-of-school programs, health care practices, and workplaces, Let’s Go! reaches children and adults where they live, learn, work, and play.
Let’s Go! Healthy messaging to live by.
Let’s Go! Partner Search
Click here to learn if your child’s school, early care and education program, out-of-school program, and/or healthcare provider is a Let’s Go! partner.
For more information on the progress being made in Androscoggin County, view the
Watch the below video to see one example of how the Let’s Go! program at Healthy Androscoggin works to find fun, creative and easy ways to make the healthy choice the easy choice.