LW49 Pillar 3: Maximize Awareness of Optimized Personal Health
For Kids
LINKS for Learning - afterschool program for elementary students. Providing homework and academic support, healthy snakcs, outdoor play, a variety of engaging enrichment activities, and opportunities for community involvement. Scholorships available.
Free Yoga for Kids with Animals videos - Educational yoga video for kids where even small children and their parents will be able to learn to relax in a different way. Through a fun story with animals, kids will practice different yoga poses and work on their breathing.
For Adults
Community Health Partners Livingston - offering Adult Education, career support, Parent Liason , Parents As Teachers , certificates, turtoring for HiSET testing and more.
Suffer Out Loud - Creating a supportive community in Gallatin & Park Counties to reduce the stigma around mental health. Offering workshops, connection to resources and individual counseling scholarship to cover the cost of 12 sessions with a licensed mental health professional. Check out their Facebook and Instagram pages for up-to-date events and inspiration.
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos Podcast - Based on the psychology course she teaches at Yale -- the most popular class in the university’s 300-year history -- Laurie will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way you think about happiness.
EXERCISE
Free Yoga Videos - Yoga With Adriene provides high quality practices on yoga and mindfulness at no cost. This resource is a great tool to help support people of all ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds in yoga.
SLEEP
Mindfullness
Free Mindfullness Exercises - studies show that mindfulness brings about various positive psychological effects, including increased subjective well-being, reduced psychological symptoms and emotional reactivity, and improved behavioral regulation. Use this resource to begin a mindfullness practice.
30 Days of Gratitude Challenge - a gratitude practice is a great way to feel better and build resilence, use this 30-day challenege to begin yours.
For Seniors
Windrider Transit - free transportation in Livingston with stops that include grocery stores, pharmacies, hardware stores, apartment complex areas and historic downtown for disadvantaged passengers who cannot drive, are without reliable vehicles or with limited funds for vehicular expenses
HRDC Homemaker Program - the Homemaker Program is a free service that allows primarily low-income seniors to maintain their independence by providing assistance with daily living such as light housekeeping, running errands, allowing seniors to remain in their home as long as possible.
Homemaker Program 111 South 2nd St. Livingston, MT 59047 (406) 333-2883
Park County Senior Center - provides a variety of programs and activities that promote the physical, intellectual, and social well being of seniors 50 and older.
Park County Senior Center206 S. Main St.Livingston, MT 59047(406) 333-2276
RSVP – The goal of our Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) is to connect seniors who have extra time to give back to the community with organizations that need volunteer support. Livingston 111 S. 2nd Ave. Livingston, MT 59047 (406) 222-2281.
DID YOU KNOW
IN PARK COUNTY
Tobacco Use
Self-Reported Health Status
Experience “Fair” or “Poor” Overall Health
Self-Reported Mental Health Status
What are the components of optimized personal health?
Think of how much potential an individual could have if they optimized their personal health? It is different for everyone, let’s explore how we optimize our mental and physical health to experience our best quality of life!