Health
Promoting a Culture of Health & Wellness
LIVE WELL-VIVIR BIEN NEW BRUNSWICK
A Health Initiative
We're promoting a culture of Health and Wellness in New Brunswick.
LIVE WELL-VIVIR BIEN NEW BRUNSWICK is a city-wide campaign creating awareness and inspiring residents to actively participate in the health and wellness resources and services available in New Brunswick, ultimately resulting in improved quality of life and other positive health outcomes. Health and wellness resources, activities, and events are available through a FREE MOBILE APP in both English & Spanish. LIVE WELL-VIVIR BIEN NEW BRUNSWICK also serves as the communications mechanism for Healthier New Brunswick.
It is a collective effort lead by New Brunswick Tomorrow that aims to:
- Coordinate community programs and activities that promote health and wellness.
- Increase public awareness of health and wellness resources through available health-related and supportive social services.
- Establish goals to measure
The LIVE WELL-VIVIR BIEN NEW BRUNSWICK campaign is designed to foster community-based partnerships by encouraging networking and collaboration among community partners and organizations. It allows communication for the health-related activities and services available, both for LIVE WELL-VIVIR BIEN partners and New Brunswick residents.
The LIVE WELL-VIVIR BIEN NEW BRUNSWICK campaign was created from the shared vision of Healthier New Brunswick as a communications platform to amplify the work of community partners in helping residents to lead healthier lifestyles and achieve greater positive health outcomes. Since its inception, Healthier New Brunswick has evolved from being an initiative focused on the issue of access to medical care to a collaboration uniting and connecting resources and assets to improve the overall health and wellness of the community. The focus includes health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors, and the physical environment. Some of our more recent achievements include:
- Created Healthy Eating Video Contest (video on the importance of healthy eating) with the Shoprite Junior Program at New Brunswick High School
- 2nd Annual March Snackness Contest at Lincoln School
- Developed a Live Well-Vivir Bien New Brunswick Healthier Restaurant Menu Campaign
OUR IMPACT
total attendance for three 2016 Ciclovia events
Community Partners for 2016 Ciclovia
attended the October 2017 Ciclovia on a rainy day
attended the April 2018 Ciclovia
OUR IMPACT
Doubled the amount of people using the LIVE WELL NEW BRUNSWICK mobile app from last year alone
LWNB Campaign Partners
health & wellness services provided (12 new in FY 2018)
outreach activities conducted in New Brunswick
people reached via outreach activities in 2017
outreach activities reaching close to 3000 people in FY18
OUR IMPACT
New Brunswick households reached since April, 2018
diabetic residents identified through this program
of identified residents scheduled appointments to be treated at the Saint Peter’s Family Health Center
KEY ISSUES
PROGRAM Partners
PROGRAM Partners
NBT partners with the following organizations to make these health programs available to the people of New Brunswick:
LIVE WELL-VIVIR BIEN NEW BRUNSWICK
4-H Youth Development
Christ Church (Food Pantry)
Middlesex County Government Programs and Services
- Multi Assistance Program
- Senior Nutrition Services
- Victim Advocacy Center
- Sheriff’s Office
- Department of Human Services- Ryan White Program
- One Stop Career Center
- Safe Housing Program
- Public Health Center
- Office on Consumer Affairs
- Victim-Witness Advocacy
- Human Services
- Aging and Disability Services
- Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services
- Housing and Community Development
- Board of Social Services
- Adult Health
- Aging Information and Assistance
- Office of Workforce Development - SkillUp Middlesex
New Brunswick Dial-A-Ride
New Brunswick Health Department
NB Hub Teen Center
NB Fire Department
New Brunswick Public Schools
- Adult Learning Center
- School-Based Services
- NJ Youth Corps
- Work First NJ
- Evening School for Foreign Born
NB Public Health Clinic
New Brunswick School Based Youth Services
New Brunswick Senior Center
New Brunswick Vital Statistics Bureau
New Hope Integrated Behavioral Health Care
New Jersey Division of Disability Services
New Jersey Unemployment Insurance Benefit Claim
NJ Youth Corps of Middlesex County
Parent Infant Center
Pediatric Immunization Clinic
Pharmaceuticals Assistance for the Aged and Disabled
Planned Parenthood- New Brunswick
Puerto Rican Action Board (PRAB)
Prevent Child Abuse America
Elijah’s Promise
Lawyer Referral Service Reduced Fee Program
Robert Wood Johnson Fitness and Wellness Center
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
- SIDS Center
- The Life Center: Genetic Counseling and Risk Assessment
- Pediatric AIDS Program
- HIV/ AIDS Counseling and Testing
Sacred Heart Church
Saint Peter’s University Hospital
- Mobile Health Services in the Community
- Food and Nutritional Services
- Gianna Center for Women’s Health and Fertility
- For Keeps: Kids Embraced and Empowered through Psychological Services
Middlesex County One-Stop Career Center
Saint Peter’s Family Health Center
Statewide Respite Care Program
Women Aware
Women Helping Women
Work First NJ - JSAP and CWEP
Special Child Health Services Case Management Unit
The Cancer Institute of NJ
Sawtelle Home for Children- New Brunswick
Unity Square
Civic League of Greater New Brunswick
State Health Insurance Assistance Program
Salvation Army
George Street Playhouse
Gifted Child Clinic
Rutgers Tobacco Dependence Program
Rutgers Gardens (Farmers Market)
Ronald McDonald House- New Brunswick
Refuge City Church
Play It Smart
New Jersey Blood Services
New Brunswick Youth Services System
New Brunswick Recreation
New Brunswick Police Department
City of New Brunswick
NB Housing and Redevelopment Authority
NB Free Public Library
NB Department of Social Services
NB Division of Parks
New Brunswick Community Farmers Market
Medical Assistance Program
Meals on Wheels
Tabernacle Baptist Church (Meal Ministry)
Manavi
Mae J. Strong Child Development Center
Lead Poisoning Prevention and Case Management
Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple
Roots to Recovery
Central Jersey Legal Services, Inc.
Choices, Inc.
Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, Inc.
Keep Middlesex Moving, Inc.
Boarding Home and Rooming House Services
New Brunswick Social Security Office
Douglass School
Action Pregnancy Center, Inc.
Damon House Inc.
Douglass Outreach
Eric B. Chandler Health Center
Hyacinth AIDS Foundation
Cancer Education and Early Detection Program
Community Wellness Center
Middlesex County Board of Social Services
NB Public Health Clinic
Jersey Assistance for Community Caregiving (JACC)
The Society of Vincent DePaul (Food Pantry)
Women Infant Child (WIC)
Catholic Charities- Diocese of Metuchen
Ebenezer Baptist Church (Soup Kitchen)
Emanuel Lutheran Church
Five Loaves Food Pantry
Suydam Street Reformed Church (Food Pantry)
Youth Empowerment Services
Homeless Prevention Rapid Re-Housing
Children’s Specialized Hospital
Bristol Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital
Matthias
First Reformed Church
Holly House
Boxing Gym
Family Medicine at Monument Square
Holy Family Parish Center
Health Way
Super Fresh
Wellspring Center for Prevention
CrossFit Stealth
Charmil Y Davis Foundation
Family Support Organization of Middlesex County
Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey
Gamblers Anonymous at Rutgers Cook Campus
Rutgers Student Food Pantry
The Collaboration Center for Community Based Research and Service
Skill Up Middlesex- Office of Workforce Development
George Street Co-op
Veganized Foods
Healthy Housing (BUILD)
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
Saint Peters University Hospital
Middlesex County Office of Health Services
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Community residents
Diabetes Community Outreach Program
Community residents
Saint Peter’s University Hospital
Healthier New Brunswick
Rutgers University
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Eric B Chandler Health Center
- HIPHOP
BlousteinSchool of Public Health
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
- Nutritional Sciences
Johnson & Johnson
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
Saint Peter’s University Hospital
- Family Health Center
City of New Brunswick
Middlesex County Office of Health Services
New Brunswick Public Schools
PRAB
Zion A.M.E. Church
Wellspring Center for Prevention
Elijah’s Promise
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