Hands-On Health is a mobile heart health education and nutrition organization providing hands-on experiences in nontraditional settings to address barriers to access to healthcare and education in under-resourced populations of northeast Ohio.
Our passionate team of diverse health professionals and educators conveniently bring the Wealthy Heart and Health Science Lab programs directly to where residents of Cleveland, Ohio, work, learn, worship, and spend leisure time in efforts to address social determinants of health that negatively impact our communities. Click here to learn more about our efforts to provide equity and awareness on heart health and education.
We are on a mission to encourage and strengthen under-resourced communities to live at their highest potential through hands-on heart health education and nutrition.
Our goal is to strengthen Cleveland’s communities by raising heart-health awareness, reducing barriers to care, and equipping families with the tools to adopt healthier lifestyles that prevent generational heart-health disparities. Through hands-on education grounded in whole-food, plant-based, Mediterranean-inspired nutrition and simple movement habits, we support lifelong wellness.
Additionally, we invest in the next generation by providing immersive nutrition-based STEM and wellness labs that promote equity, inspire future health leaders, and create intergenerational pathways toward stronger, healthier communities.
The Wealthy Heart Program brings pharmacy-forward preventative care directly to our neighborhoods through convenient mobile health screenings and interactive, hands-on nutrition and wellness workshops. With the focus on lifestyle modifications, we encourage participants through culturally appropriate cooking classes, mindfulness, and physical activity.
We help families build realistic, sustainable habits to improve their well-being, meeting people exactly where they are. Small steps make big differences.
Our Health Science Labs spark a love for STEM by transforming students into “Junior Scientists”, complete with white coats and goggles. Through nutrition-based science experiments, whole-food tasting, mindfulness and movement, youth discover the real-world connection between science, food choices, and their own well-being. We integrate social-emotional learning to make these science concepts personal and easy to understand, empowering students to take charge of their health and share what they learn with their families.
Family engagement is the heartbeat of everything we do. We take a highly relational, intergenerational approach to prevention, meeting community members physically in their neighborhoods and where they are in their personal heart-health journeys. By bringing children, caregivers, and elders together to learn, cook, and move, we build a supportive community network that makes living healthier lives a shared community vision.
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We look forward to collaborating with other community organizations. We are stronger together!
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