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Healthy Together Program Making a Difference

A group enjoys a traditional powwow as part of the Men’s Resource Center Wellness project in Brandon
A group enjoys a traditional powwow as part of the Men’s Resource Center Wellness project in Brandon

Healthy Together Now (HTN) is a community-led, regionally coordinated and government supported, grassroots program to help prevent chronic disease in Manitoba. In PMH, the program is implemented through a combination of a community granting program and a Health Promotion led action plan. Grants and projects are approved separately in each of the three zones of PMH (North, South, Brandon) by committees comprised of health promotion staff and community stakeholders local to each zone. Through HTN, Health Promotion staff work with community to build capacity and foster growth in individuals and the communities they live in by supporting community-led health promotion activities, bringing together groups to promote health and address chronic disease and giving communities knowledge, skills and support needed to develop and offer health promotion programs.

In 2024-25, 66 community groups in over 32 different communities and all Brandon districts received HTN funding, demonstrating the extensive reach and wide-ranging impacts of the HTN program in PMH.

Chart showing Number of HTN-funded community grant projects in 2024-25

Health Promotion staff, together with community partners, assess trends in grant applications, observe needs in PMH communities and research promising practices in health promotion and disease prevention to identify and develop health promotion led projects aimed at addressing these needs while respecting community readiness.  In 2024-25, 15 health promotion led HTN projects occurred throughout PMH.

If you are part of a community group with an idea to help improve health consider applying for a Healthy Together Now grant.  Grant applications are accepted 4 times per year with the following intake deadlines: May 1, Aug 1, Nov 1, Feb 1. Visit https://healthytogethernow.net/ to review the guidelines and complete an application. Questions about the program can be directed to program leads. Brandon: Nikki Dean [email protected]  204 578-2194 South: Tara Smith [email protected]  204 328-6215 North: Deb Wilson [email protected]  204 937-6277.  See poster for details.

A group enjoys learning some new cooking skills in the Cooking with Betty project in Swan River
A group enjoys learning some new cooking skills in the Cooking with Betty project in Swan River.