Healthy West Chicago 5K Run/Walk

Virtual Run

August 22 and August 23, 2020

Looking towards the future we plan to continue our efforts by offering hands-on nutrition and disease prevention education programming, improve access to locally grown foods, and work to tackle systemic changes that will help ensure West Chicago residents have easy access to physical activity in the parks and on the streets and paths in West Chicago.Residents and employers alike will benefit from an increase in health in our community.

We do recognize that these are difficult times for all and the last few months have proven, if nothing else, how vital community efforts like Healthy West Chicago are for our residents. Our current crisis has also shown us how important health is, and that a community must have a strong foundational health to weather trying times.

Your contribution to Healthy West Chicago will allow us to grow our essential programs. Together, we can ensure that West Chicagoans are healthy and strong through life challenges and successes.

Your donation to Healthy West Chicago will allow us to grow our essential programs. $250 can provide a home garden to a food-insecure family. $1,000 can provide a six-week cooking class series for at-risk students and their families. $3,000 can provide an eight-week nutrition series of hands-on classes and grocery store tours to empower families to make healthy choices. Together, we can ensure that West Chicagoans are healthy and strong through life challenges and successes.

Our Mission

Mission and Vision

The mission of Healthy West Chicago is to ensure all residents of West Chicago have access to an optimal state of health and wellness. With our efforts we hope to increase healthy eating and physical activity in order to make West Chicago one of the healthiest communities in the region. Through engaging events, educational offerings and policy efforts, we aim to make the healthy choice, the easy choice.

Healthy West Chicago is both a partnership and an ideal. It is the belief that every single person has the ability to improve their own health. It is the desire to help all residents make healthy choices for themselves and their children.

Partners

As a partnership, Healthy West Chicago is a ground-breaking collaboration among community organizations committed to improving the health of West Chicagoans. Our Action Plan is based on extensive community input and guidance from technical experts. The Action Plan will guide our work for the next 5-10 years.

Healthy West Chicago programming has been funded with generous support from Northwestern Medicine, Share Our Strength, the American Heart Association, the City of West Chicago and WeGo Together for Kids through their partnership with the United Way of DuPage/West Cook and Metropolitan Family Services. Healthy West Chicago’s fiscal agent is People Made Visible, a West Chicago 501(c)(3) whose mission is to foster community through dynamic cultural and social programming.