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Ignite Sussex County

We are taking part in the global movement proven to improve health and well-being for entire communities, cities, and counties. This new way of thinking and working will enhance the places we live, work, learn, and play.

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Partners for Wellbeing, United Way of Delaware, Delaware Health and Social Services, and Beebe Healthcare are bringing together civic and community leaders to work with Blue Zones to improve well-being for residents of Sussex County. Through community well-being enhancements, we are working to make a marked difference in the outcomes and cost of healthcare and transform the health of this region, setting up residents to live long, healthy, happy lives.

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Partners for Wellbeing is a partnership working to create sustainable community well-being for Delawareans by collaborating with people and organizations who share the belief that a healthy surrounding environment leads to healthy people and healthy communities. The partnership focuses on health and well-being improvements, accessibility to healthy choices, and infrastructure that supports community connections.

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Blue Zones is the proven innovator for improving the well-being of large populations, with remarkable success in businesses, cities, and states across America.

In this phase, Blue Zones global experts are performing a Readiness Assessment, a structured exploration of Sussex County. They are working with our local community health leaders and organizations to learn and assess the state of our well-being. Becoming a Blue Zones Community is a three-phase process, and the Readiness Assessment is the first step.

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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.

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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.

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MEET THE EXPERTS

The Blue Zones team is comprised of a range of inspirational, innovative community transformation and well-being experts.

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“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

U.S. Surgeon General after his orientation to the Blue Zones work in the Beach Cities, California

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Join the movement that will make healthy choices easier in Sussex County. Together, we can make our community a healthier, happier place to live, work, and play.

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Using evidence-based lessons of longevity from the blue zones, we optimize the Life Radius, where we live, work, learn, and play.

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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.

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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.

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