This partnership is committed to helping current and future Harlingen residents thrive. By promoting policies that improve well-being and strengthening cross-sector collaboration, the City of Harlingen and Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation are committed to improving resident quality of life and building a community where people are healthier, happier, and less prone to burnout.
Happenings
Blue Zones Ignite Harlingen Community Keynote Event
Thursday, August 27th
4:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Please join us for the Blue Zones Ignite Harlingen Community Keynote Event where national speaker, Danny Buettner Jr. , will present the research on the longest-lived and healthiest places in the world, as well as the common lifestyle and cultural traits of those regions. You’ll then learn how these traits have been implemented in communities across the United States and what communities can do to promote health and well-being.
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What We Do
READINESS ASSESSMENT
Blue Zones experts will collaborate with leaders to assess readiness and build a plan for change. During this period, we will: educate and mobilize local leaders and residents, evaluate the community’s current state of well-being, identify the highest priority strengths, challenges and opportunities, and produce and present a plan for community transformation.
FREE TOOLS
Blue Zones engages individual community members through online health and well-being assessments, the True Vitality® Test and the True Happiness® Test, and an interactive Blue Zones® Life Plan. All are available for free to all community members as part of the program. These customized online tools are designed to help raise individual awareness surrounding personal health and well-being, with the goal of increasing overall life expectancy.
MEET THE EXPERTS
The Blue Zones team is comprised of a range of inspirational, innovative community transformation and well-being experts.
“In an age when poor health seems so intractable, you’ve taken this community from a place of resignation to a place of hope.”
Dr. Vivek Murthy
Former U.S. Surgeon General after his orientation to the Blue Zones work in the Beach Cities, California
Want to Learn More?
Using evidence-based lessons of longevity from the blue zones, we optimize the Life Radius, where we live, work, learn, and play.
Life Radius
Blue Zones transformations focus on optimizing the Life Radius or the area close to home where we spend 90 percent of our lives.
POWER 9
Residents of the original blue zones regions live in very different parts of the world. Yet they have nine commonalities that lead to longer, healthier lives.
Albert Lea: Operation Transformation
The Story of Lynn Stansbury
