About StepsAbout Steps
Steps to a Healthier Cleveland is a city-wide program designed to engage all Clevelanders to live longer, better and healthier lives. It is a program of the Cleveland Department of Public Health (CDPH).
The Steps to a Healthier Cleveland program encourages physical activity, healthy eating and tobacco-free choices. These efforts are intended to reduce the burden of diabetes, overweight/obesity and asthma in all of Cleveland’s diverse neighborhoods.
Steps to a Healthier Cleveland provides information, resources, support and services to Clevelanders seeking to make healthy lifestyle changes—big or small. The Steps program is active in many areas of community life. Working with strong community partners and leaders, Steps to a Healthier Cleveland strives to:
- Educate Clevelanders about the risks of physical inactivity, poor nutrition and tobacco use and exposure
- Engage schools, teachers, students and parents to provide healthy meals, fun and safe physical activities, tobacco prevention education and more
- Build and support worksite wellness programs
- Train and support healthcare providers and community health workers to prevent, diagnose and treat diabetes, overweight/obesity and asthma
- Encourage communities to build healthy neighborhood improvements such as bike lanes, walking trails, community gardens, safe routes to school and markets for fresh produce
Steps to a HealthierUS
Steps to a Healthier Cleveland is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of Steps to a HealthierUS.
The Steps to a HealthierUS Cooperative Agreement is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services program advancing the HealthierUS goal to help community-based interventions, this program aims to reduce the burdens of diabetes, obesity and asthma, and address three related risk behaviors—poor nutrition, physical inactivity and tobacco use and exposure.
