August is National Breastfeeding Month
Also - Back to school events, Feast on the Farm, Streets Alive! update
August Partner Highlight
MilkWorks
Health and the City
Trusted Voices in 27 Languages
MilkWorks

MilkWorks strives to create a healthier community by empowering families to reach their breastfeeding goals. 

All month long, MilkWorks will be celebrating National Breastfeeding Month. This year’s theme is “Enabling Breastfeeding - Making a difference for working parents.” MilkWorks wants to ensure that parents returning to work while breastfeeding or pumping get adequate support and resources from their workplaces to be successful in their feeding goals.

Breastfeeding Educators Connect

Breastfeeding means healthier moms and babies, but it's not always easy. Local breastfeeding data tells us most moms are having trouble making it to the 6-month mark.

Besides challenges with the act of breastfeeding, moms site the lack of family, workplace, and community support. For women of color, where breastfeeding initiation and duration rates are lower, the difficulty of finding culturally sensitive support creates an additional barrier.

Learn how programs, including the Community Breastfeeding Educators, who together speak 27 languages, are making a difference in the latest Health and the City column in the Lincoln Journal Star. Co-written with LNKTV Health.
August Partner Highlight
LLCHD WIC
Back to School Prep
Add vaccines to your checklist
LLCHD WIC

Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department's (LLCHD) Women Children and Infants (WIC) program is a supplemental nutrition program for pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, infants, and children up to age 5. WIC also works to provide participants with the support they need to be successful on their breastfeeding journeys. 

The WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Program offers mom-to-mom support, to help manage common breastfeeding concerns and provide encouragement to families throughout the breastfeeding experience. Learn more about WIC breastfeeding support and the Peer Counselor program in their August highlight.
Keeping Kids Safe

Vaccine coverage is currently below the levels that are needed to protect child health and to avoid community outbreaks.

Childhood vaccination is one of the lowest-cost and most effective public health strategies to control and prevent disease and improve health. From birth through age 18, children in the U.S. are routinely immunized against a host of preventable childhood diseases.

It's a good time to schedule kids' shots, including flu and COVID, to keep them safe this school year. Download a vaccination schedule from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Streets Alive! in University Place is Coming Up

Streets Alive!, our free movement and wellness festival, is hosted again by the University Place neighborhood, on Sunday, September 24, from 1 - 4:30 PM.

Lots of new and fun things this year. Check your email for a "First Look at Streets Alive!" e-newsletter in the next 2 weeks to read all about it.

Exhibitor spots are starting to fill up - 70+ have already signed on. If you are interested in sponsoring Streets Alive!, or participating as exhibitor, healthy food vendor, performer or fitness leader, sign up or learn more here:


UPCO Park Streets Alive!
Community Development Project Update

As an adjunct to the Streets Alive! festival, we work with the host neighborhood, area businesses, and sponsors to improve the walkability, vitality and/or safety of the neighborhood through a community development project.

The project for University Place is a free outdoor fitness facility that works for all fitness levels and abilities. Lincoln Parks and Recreation broke ground on the project in June. Learn more, meet the project sponsors.
Partner Happenings
Aging Partners Move Complete
New Members Flock to Fitness Center

Aging Partners offices and fitness center has now completed the move to the Victory Park Veteran's Campus at 70th & L Sts.

The move has attracted 200 new fitness members and Aging Partners is adding additional fitness equipment and hiring both full and part-time trainers and to accommodate. Contact Ann Heydt to learn more.
Lincoln Parks and Recreation
Air Park Community Center, Library Open

In late July, a 5,000 square feet community center that includes a full-size gym, three smaller fitness rooms, meeting spaces and a multi-purpose and game room opened in Air Park, the first in the city to co-locate with a city library, the Williams Branch.

The new facility, that replaced a dilapidated older center, is open to everyone. Read more.
Malone Hosts Back 2 School event
in partnership with Visionary Youth

Free backpack and haircut event at:
The College Of Hair Design
304 S. 11th Street, Aug. 13, 10 AM - 4PM.

For more information:
call (402) 474-1110 (Malone) or (402) 318-4340 (Visionary Youth)
Lutheran Family Services
Hosts Back to School Bash, Schroder Park

Friday, August 11, from 4 - 6 PM, Lincoln Family Services is hosting a back to school bash at the Schroder Park Wellness Campus. The bash includes free school supplies, an IPad giveaway for low income families, entertainment, kid's activities, arts and crafts, vendor booths, and more. For more info email Maureen.
Community Crops
Feast on the Farm, Aug. 26, Prairie Pines

Crops' annual fundraiser, Feast on the Farm, is a progressive meal experience with locally sourced ingredients from area farmers, prepared by Lincoln’s best chefs. Dine, listen to live music, and tour the 5-acre training farm. Learn more.
YMCA Adds 2 New Playgrounds

The YMCA of Lincoln is adding new outdoor playgrounds at its Fallbrook and Copple Family locations, scheduled to open in time for the 2023-2024 school year.
 
This project will support the Youth, Teen, and Family programs at their perspective locations throughout the year.
Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving and protecting the health, wellness, and fitness of Lincoln's children, families, and seniors.

We work to improve wellness policies and conduct community level health research. We collaborate with community partners to promote healthy weights through good nutrition and fitness, improve child and maternal health by supporting breastfeeding, create better patient outcomes by increasing cancer screening and vaccination rates, improving chronic disease management, increasing preventative outreach, and standardizing clinical practices. During public health crises like the COVID 19 pandemic, we help to protect community health by providing science and evidence-based information.
Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln also works to improve health equity in our community, addressing disparities among racial and ethnic populations with the highest burden of chronic disease.  Systemic racism is also a threat to community health. We stand in solidarity with everyone who is fighting for greater equality and justice for all.
 Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln
4600 Valley Road Ste. 250   Lincoln, NE 68510
Phone: (402) 430-9940     
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