With the Mayor's Healthly Hometown Movement, Mayor Jerry Arbramson is demonstrating a strong commitment to encouraging and furthering healthy behavior in the new city of Louisville, KY. The movement is an integrated umbrella-style program, designed to raise awareness and encourage Louisvillians to give up unhealthy habits and substitute simple, healthy behaviors, over time, by providing important information, creating partnerships and highlighting resources availbale to all citizens of Louisville. The movement, as developed and implemented through the Louisvile Metro Health Department and given oversight by a representative Advisory COuncil, is an important strategic community opportunity with very real and measurable residual community benefit.

Initially, the movement will target city employees, private sector employers, and public/private partnerships, including those directed at children, toward the goal of providing excellent examples and model programs for neighborhood organizations,schools, work sites, and individuals. Ultimately, Mayor Abramson would like to see these goals achieved by December 2006.