Fostering a robust culture of health and wellness in the community is a key part of developing a strong health care system in Aurora. Individual residents, businesses, local agencies, and civic institutions all have a role to play. AHA believes the more Aurora embraces a community ethic of wellness and healthy living, the less overall demand we’ll collectively have on our limited health care system.
We’ve compiled a list of health and wellness resources already present in our richly diverse city. Explore these resources to find out more. If you have a health and wellness resource to share, see the submission guidelines at the right to add it today!
Get Connected | Get Active & Eat Well | Get Educated | Get Services
- AHA’s Wellness Wire
This Aurora Health Access newsletter aims to facilitate a culture of health and wellness in Aurora and to connect local businesses to local community health care resources - Aurora Healthier Beginnings (720-675-7482)
Works to reduce health disparities in birth outcomes in Aurora’s African American community - Cancer Survivors Network
A free online community of people with cancer and their loved ones - Original Aurora Community Integration Collaborative (303-627-2089)
Works to help both immigrant and long-term residents better understand one another and to form a more connected community through community gardens, educational classes, and other projects
- Aurora’s Parks, Recreation and Open Space Department (303-326-8650)
Provides a host of programs for all ages that promote healthy living through fitness programs, sports, cooking classes, outdoor activities and camps - Aurora Public Schools
Promotes health and wellness through a district-wide Coordinated School Health committee that works to promote healthy lifestyles among APS school families and APS’ Integrated Nutrition Education Program, which teaches students about the importance of healthy eating and provides lessons in cooking - Cooking Matters (303-892-8480)
Provides Aurora residents with courses in nutrition, healthy eating, food preparation, budgeting, and shopping - Let’s Play! Let’s Grow Strong!
A collection of public-service videos for both kids and adults that inspire healthy eating and activities. - LiveWell Northwest Aurora (303-468-3222)
Working to reduce obesity by promoting healthy eating and active living - Weigh and Win
A free program that provides cash incentives for achieving a healthier lifestyle
- Aurora Healthy Kids
An initiative to reduce tobacco sales to minors - Colorado Access (800-511-5010)
Aims to improve access to needed health care to underserved Coloradans, and provides educational seminars for adults and a Safe T. Tiger initiative for children - Integrated Pathway to Baccalaureate Nursing Program
Working to develop the nursing workforce in Aurora by helping students receive an Associate’s Degree from CCA followed by a BA in Nursing at the UCHSC in Aurora - Restoration Christian Fellowship Church
Educates their congregation about health choices after each church service - WomensHealth.gov: A Lifetime of Good Health
This publication of the US Department of Health and Human Services is a comprehensive guide to women’s health from preventative tests and warning signs to domestic violence, healthy bones, and smoking cessation
- American Cancer Society (720-848-0316)
Patient navigators are dedicated to helping newly diagnosed cancer patients, their families, and their caregivers access cancer information, resources, transportation, lodging, nutritional information, and more - Aurora Mental Health Center (AMHC)
Works to promote mental health and to treat those who are affected by mental illness, offering a long list of community health programs available to Aurora residents, including: a full array of mental health services for all ages and purposes, educational classes for everything from parenting to smoking cessation, at-risk teen services through Aurora Youth Options, a Speaker’s Bureau for on-site trainings, Latino services, and the Medical Mobile Van Partnership (available on the first Saturday of each month from 1-3pm at various Aurora Colfax Corridor sites for screenings, health care, and basic necessities) - Comitis Crisis Center (303-341-9160)
Provides emergency housing, runaway youth services, community outreach, and educational events - Lutheran Family Services
Provides free and confidential pregnancy, parenting, and adoption services - Metro Crisis Services (888-885-1222)
Professional help by phone, 24/7, for any mental health or substance abuse problem including suicide; available free, to all residents of the Denver Metro area, including residents of Aurora - Metropolitan Community Provider Network Teen Clinic (303-762-6540)
Offers confidential services for ages 11-19, including free pregnancy testing and low cost exams, STD testing and treatment, birth control, and emergency contraception - Peak Wellness (303-363-3018)
Provides low-income, uninsured and under-insured women ages 40-64 with screening and referrals in an effort to prevent cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke
http://www.aurorahealthykids.org/
