In The Community

Let’s Go!’s model focuses on engaging communities. Communities are a central component in creating the type and degree of behavior change necessary to combat the obesity epidemic. Additionally, in some communities there are already some efforts to address physical activity and healthy eating that Let’s Go! can coordinate and strengthen, as well as expand on by adding work in all four issue areas (educational continuum, work place, health care, community). Wherever possible, Let’s Go! will work with and leverage existing community teams to avoid duplication. Finally, this work must be embedded in the communities for it to be sustained over time, when Let’s Go!’s project period is complete. The Let’s Go! staff has considerable experience in the development of forming effective community partnerships.

Let’s Go! will be working in the following 12 Greater Portland Communities. If you click on the town name you will be directed to the town's parks and recreation or community website:

• Cape Elizabeth
• Cumberland
• Falmouth
• Freeport
• Gorham
  
• North Yarmouth
  
• Portland
  
• Scarborough
  
• South Portland
  
• Westbrook
  
• Windham
  
• Yarmouth