Healthy Living Niagara is a partnership of community groups working together so people in Niagara can lead safe, healthy active lives and youth can flourish.

We are funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care's Healthy Communities Fund -- Partnership Stream to create policies that make it easier to be healthy.

In 2010, we were asked by the ministry to determine recommended local actions to address their priorities:

• physical activity, sport and recreation,
• healthy eating,
• tobacco use/exposure,
• mental health promotion,
• substance and alcohol misuse, and
• injury prevention

These recommended actions will help the ministry decide which projects in Niagara they fund through the Healthy Communities Fund -- grant stream and which policies they fund through the partnership stream. 

For more information, see Creating a Healthier Niagara: Community Recommendations for Action.

Benefits of becoming involved in Healthy Living Niagara

• Increased capacity to achieve organizational mandate through the sharing of ideas, resources and funds.
• Access to credible information and resources, training and networking opportunities through HC Link events and HLN sponsored professional development, planning meetings and web site.
• Opportunities to partner on innovative initiatives to advance local policy development with a regional network of community groups.
• Option to list your organization’s name on Healthy Living Niagara’s print materials.
• Access to additional promotional opportunities that are subsidized by Healthy Living Niagara. Examples include public awareness campaigns, community events and displays.
• Access to HLN promotional items for use at community or staff events and activities.
• Eligible to attend and vote, as needed, at HLN meetings.