"The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation’s purpose provides opportunities for our community to enthusiastically embrace a healthier lifestyle. One of primary ways we aim to achieve our purpose and, ultimately, our mission, is to partner with organizations in the area by investing in solutions aimed at long-term improvement in healthy behaviors. Specifically, the Foundation will invest in the following two core pillars and their defined program areas:
Developing Youth Potential– We believe that investing in our community youth, is investing on our community's future. To that aim, we seek to invest in our community youth, especially those less served, by supporting their overall development in these core program areas:
Early Childhood Development: providing expecting and new parents with the tools and resources to ensure the development of young children (0-5).
School Programs (K-12): integrating best practices to promote wellness as a core component of school culture and student achievement.
Youth Preparedness: helping youth obtain the cognitive, social, and emotional skills necessary to succeed in life.
Promoting Equitable Health & Wellness–In our community and throughout the United States, health equity and equal opportunity are inextricably linked. The challenges of disease and poor health in comparison to the benefits of wellness and good health are inequitably distributed among groups of people."
