Healthy Kingsport

[Who we are]

Healthy Kingsport has committed to creating a community that is a healthier place to live, work, learn and play by fostering an environment for individuals to actively embrace healthy living by utilizing resources within our three areas of focus: healthy community, healthy schools and healthy workplaces.

[What we do]

Healthy Community | Encouraging every person in our region to take “Small Starts” towards a healthier lifestyle.

By diving into the necessities of our community, we have learned to interpret the word “health” in a new way. Not just physical health, but social, emotional and mental health. It has helped us cultivate and reimagine innovative ways to culture a healthier environment. Guiding the community to a healthier lifestyle by offering programs and events to encourage healthy eating, exercise, and overall well-being. Healthy Kingsport hosts a wide variety of health and wellness events that coincide with our core initiatives, such as, the largest health expo in our region (Walk for Wellness Health Expo), mini health fairs, mini farmers markets and our senior ambassadors club . We also facilitate community walks, tobacco/vape-free initiatives, healthy food drives, community health challenges, as well as, be present as a vendor at other partnering organizations events to offer a range and health and wellness information/activities to attendees.

Healthy Schools | Helping schools become a healthier environment for students, teachers, parents/guardians.

We are expanding our partnerships throughout Kingsport to implement solutions that combat the ongoing crisis within schools. Healthy Kingsport aims to help our educational system become a healthier environment for students, teachers and parents/guardians by encouraging healthy behaviors and providing access to resources and services that support their health and well-being. Healthy Kingsport provides efforts such as access to water bottles, water refilling stations, tobacco/vape-free initiatives, motivational speakers, youth leadership, positive childhood experiences, mental health awareness, as well as, general health and wellness information. We collaborate with several local organizations to create a variety of environments that foster social and emotional connections, such as student/parent engagement nights, parent universities, back to school events and field days. Healthy Kingsport has become a stronger, trusted force within our community because of the work we are doing to combat these issues. Because of our efforts this past year, other organizations and school systems have inquired about our initiatives and found ways to implement them in their communities.

Healthy Workplaces | Offering workplaces tools to increase health and overall well-being of their employees.

We are engaging with businesses in our area to offer their employees easy access to the health and wellness resources we provide. We alter our approach at these businesses by tailoring our initiatives to the specific needs of the individuals we are serving. We do this by working with legislators regarding policy change, creating health challenges, initiating the implementation of tobacco free policies, providing health and wellness tips and bringing in educational speakers. Healthy Kingsport hosts lunch and learns where we have experts speak on a variety of different health and wellness topics, employee engagement events along with health and wellness days for adult leadership classes. We write articles and press releases to be published in local newspapers highlighting employers that promote health and well-being within their businesses and organizations. Having healthy and happy employees benefit, not only the employee and employer, but the community as a whole.

[How to be involved]

Volunteer | Partnership | Sponsorship

Visit https://linktr.ee/healthykingsport to see how we are impacting our region.

Email us at dclemons@healthykingsport.org to learn how to join the movement.

[Healthy Kingsport is supported by]

The City of Kingsport, Eastman, Ballad Health, BlueCross BlueShield of TN, Bank of Tennessee, Sullivan County Commission, Domtar Packaging, Humana, Holston Medical Group, BAE Systems, Creekside Behavior Health and Watauga Orthopaedics.