 Reshaping Utah until the healthy choice is an easy choice at home, school, work, and play. |
The Utah Partnership for Healthy Weight is a nonprofit corporation and public-private partnership of over 30 Utah organizations working to coordinate, promote, and support efforts to combat obesity in Utah.
What we do:
- Work to implement Tipping the Scales Toward a Healthier Population: The Utah Blueprint to Promote Healthy Weight for Children, Youth, and Adults
- Act as clearinghouse for healthy-weight resources and programs
- Coordinate fragmented Utah healthy-weight efforts
- Act as resource for persons and organizations interested in healthy weight
- Collaborate with Utah universities on healthy weight research
- Seek funding to promote healthy weight in Utah
Partnership members meet quarterly and bring together leaders in Utah committed to implementing the Blueprint in a comprehensive, coordinated approach. By successfully combating overweight and obesity, we will help Utahns and others enjoy a better quality of life and reduce the growing financial burden of medical care and services.
- Partnership Representatives
- Board Members and Organizations
- Blueprint Implementation
- Articles of Incorporation
Join us in Reshaping Utah!
How can my organization become a member of this Partnership?
- Read the Blueprint
- Fill out, sign, and submit a Partnership Commitment Form and Blueprint Implementation Grid
- Send these to Leon Hammond, Executive Director lhammond@uphw.org
Contact: Leon Hammond, Executive Director
352 S. Denver St., #300 Salt Lake City, UT 84111-3048
(801) 359-0840 or lhammond@uphw.org
Is overweight and obesity a problem in Utah and why should I care? See our FAQ list.
Partnership History:
The initial meeting to begin implementing the Blueprint was held on September 25, 2006 at the Governor's mansion and hosted by Governor and Mrs. Hunstman. 50 community leaders and their organizations were invited to form a private/public/community partnership.
On February 1, 2007, a follow-up meeting was held at the Utah Department of Health. It was at this meeting the community partners agreed to name this initiative – both themselves as a coalition and the to-be-incorporated nonprofit organization – the Utah Partnership for Healthy Weight.
