May Partner Highlight
Community Crops
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Health and the City
May is National Bike Month
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Community Crops
Growing Community Food Security
Community Crops continues their mission to provide education, advocacy, and experiences to grow local food, now as a program of Family Service Lincoln.
For the 2023 growing season, Crops will operate 12 community and special project gardens, 2 farm sites, an urban agriculture plot, and 2 greenhouses. Crops will also offer 2 new educational series, one focused on business and marketing for small farmers and the other focused on teaching sustainable agriculture skills.
This year, Crops will support multilingual market tours and is helping to grow the Hub Farmer’s Market. Learn more.
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The Joy of Pedaling
The wind cooling your face, the sun on your shoulders, and the freedom of the outdoors - time to celebrate all things biking.
May is National Bike Month, and Lincoln is a bike friendly community. This month is full of fun biking opportunities and activities - and you can participate even if you don't own a bike. If you or family members don't know how to ride, you can find information about where you can learn.
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May Partner Highlight
Lincoln Parks & Recreation
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Recommendations Updated
Community COVID Info
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Lincoln Parks & Recreation
Summer Camp Sign up Time
Lincoln Parks and Recreation Summer Day Camps are about creating memories, exploring new adventures, making friends, and celebrating being a kid.
Eleven weekly camps, beginning May 30 and going through August offer campers opportunities to swim, read, play sports, practice yoga, get outside, craft, garden, build, go on field trip adventures, and gain new skills to last a lifetime.
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Vax, Boost Recommendations Updated, Simplified
The bivalent COVID vaccine, which is effective against both the original virus strain and the prevalent Omicron strain, replaces the monovalent vaccine for the primary series, and boosters for seniors, and people who are immunocompromised. Get all the facts here:
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WHAT'S NEW TO VIEW
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On May 24, you have an opportunity to support the work of Lincoln's non-profits with your gifts on Give to Lincoln Day.
We hope we are one!
We work to:
- improve nutrition and increase physical activity in children
- improve infant and maternal health through breastfeeding and access to pre- and postnatal care
- create better patient outcomes through preventative care and standardized clinical practices
- decrease health disparities
- provide evidence based information during public health crises like COVID.
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Sign up for Streets Alive 2023
Streets Alive!, Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln's free movement and wellness festival, will again be hosted by the University Place neighborhood, on Sunday, September 24, from 1- 4 PM.
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Aging Partners Moves to
New Location
Aging Partners will open their new offices on May 3 at the Victory Park development at 600 S. 70th St.
The new facility features expanded parking and a first-floor entrance to the building, a health clinic staffed by the University of Nebraska Medical Center, a spacious classroom, an exercise room, access to nutritious meals and a large outdoor space. Hundreds gathered to celebrate the move. Read more.
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World Children's Day Celebration
Sat. May 6, 10AM-1PM
Schroeder Park Wellness Campus, South Folsom & West B Sts., hosts the Golden Studio Band as part of World Children's Day.
The Lincoln-based ensemble of Yazidi musicians is led by Hasan Khalil and features Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish, Persian, and traditional Syrian music, as well as world music melodies for dance.
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Woods Tennis Center
In honor of National Tennis Month in May, Woods Tennis Center is putting on a city-wide scavenger hunt at 17 different parks with tennis courts across the city.
“The Great Tennis Pursuit” is open to all ages throughout the month. The goal is to bring more awareness to local courts, while having fun and winning prizes at the same time. For more info, email Kaitlin Roselius.
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Community Playdates
Every Tuesday in May, 9:30-10:30AM
Southern Heights Food Forest, 40th & Old Cheney, hosts an hour of story, songs, movements, and free play with natural materials in the Nature Explore outdoor classroom. Free, and intended for all pre-school age children. Learn more.
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MilkWorks Photo Sessions
Support MilkWorks mission to support breastfeeding families and get a great family photo by signing up for a mini session with professional photographers on May 13, from 2:30 - 5 PM. Just $40 for two professionally edited photos. Sign up here.
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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.
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Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln
4600 Valley Road Ste. 250 Lincoln, NE 68510
Phone: (402) 430-9940
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