Your Community

  • Encourage your children and the children in your neighborhood to walk and bike to schools. 
  • Visit your local farmers’ market to check out local, fresh produce
  • Support family, friends and community members with mental illness in seeking treatment
  • Advocate for further treatment resources for those suffering with mental illness
  • Challenges the underage drinking and binge drinking culture; this can play a role in changing it .
  • Create programs, including volunteer work, where young people can grow, explore their options, succeed, and feel good about themselves without alcohol.
  • Tell your policy makers and news media if you enjoy Wisconsin’s Smoke-Free Air Law.
  • Support mothers in our community wishing to breastfeed their infants.
  • Encourage older adults you know to participate in an education session to prevent falls.
  • Help formulate healthy publc policy.  Speak to your local council person, county board supervisor, State or US legislator about health issues.