Crow Wing Energized Movement - Crow Wing Energized

The purpose of the Crow Wing Energized steering committee is to establish and grow community support for policy, systems and environmental change work in obesity prevention and tobacco use and control. Crow Wing Energized also aims to enhance health and wellness through the development and implementation of a county wide strategic plan.

Deliverables

Improve Crow Wing County health outcomes and health related costs.
Communicate progress both internally and externally.
Support goal group efforts and alignment with the county wide strategic plan.
Document history of health and wellness movement.

Guiding Principles

We seek to create and sustain a united approach to improving health and wellness in our community and surrounding areas, helping to make the healthy choice the easy choice.
We seek collaboration towards solutions with multiple stakeholders (e.g. schools, worksites, medical center) to improve community engagement and commitment focused on improving community health.
We seek to prioritize evidence based efforts around greatest community good that can be achieved through our available resources.

The Crow Wing Energized steering committee will have four main goal groups that will help with implementation and be driven by partnerships within these collaborating goal groups: Healthy Choices, Mental Fitness, Workplace Wellness, & Community Connections

Crow Wing Energized Steering Committee

Adam Rees – Essentia Health – Central Region President

Kara Griffin – Crow Wing County Community Services

Kathy Sell – Essentia Health – Marketing Manager

Gayle Nielsen – Essentia Health – Care Coordinator

Nathan Bertram – Crow Wing County

Mark Ostgarden – City of Brainerd – City Planner

Matt Kilian – Brainerd Lakes Chamber CEO

Aimee Jambor – Brainerd School District Health Services

Carolyn McQueen – University of MN – Extension Nutrition Educator

Shane Riffle – Brainerd Lakes YMCA – Executive Director

Renee Richardson – Brainerd Dispatch – Associate Editor