2008 Healthy Ohio Healthy Community

The Healthy Ohio Healthy Community Award recognizes the outstanding achievements of communities in implementing health-related policies and providing healthy community environments.  It recognizes a community's efforts to encourage employees and residents to make healthy choices. 

The City of Kettering received a Silver Healthy Ohio-Healthy Community award Oct. 16 at the Ohio Society for Public Health Education Health Educator’s Institute annual meeting at Mohican Resort and Conference Center in Loudonville. The City of Kettering  is one of 21 communities to be honored by the Office of Healthy Ohio (OHO) in 2008.

“The City of Kettering does what it takes to create a healthy environment for its residents,” said Ohio Department of Health Director (ODH) Alvin D. Jackson, M.D. “If others emulate Kettering’s actions, Ohio can truly become the state of living well.”

Healthy Ohio-Healthy Community awards recognize communities’ outstanding achievements in implementing health-related policies and providing healthy community environments. The award recognizes communities’ efforts in encouraging and enabling employees, residents and visitors to make healthy choices including participating in physical activity, eating good, nutritious foods and avoiding tobacco.