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About PowerUp
PowerUp is a community-wide initiative to make it easy, fun, and popular for kids and families to eat better and move more, so that our kids can grow up healthy. PowerUp is a long-term commitment to create change over 10 years in partnership with schools, businesses, health care, civic groups, families, kids, and the entire community. It is supported by a designated fund of the Lakeview Health Foundation in partnership with HealthPartners. It operates across the St. Croix Valley in the region served by the area HealthPartners Hospitals and Clinics (Amery Hospital and Clinic, Hudson Hospital and Clinic, Lakeview Hospital, Stillwater Medical Group and Westfields Hospital and Clinic). 

BearPower, our partner program in White Bear Lake, has joined forces with PowerUp to work together making a similar difference in their community. 

See how HealthPartners is helping to build healthier communities.

PowerUp will...

  • Reach Out in a positive way to encourage a healthy eating and activity environments.
  • Be Strategic in a comprehensive approach based on promising research.
  • Build on what is already working on a national and local level.
  • Innovate and find new approaches that will work here in the valley. 
  • Form positive partnerships with families, schools, business, health care, food retailers, childcare, faith communities, and the community. 
  • Measure results along the way.
  • View our partners and committee members. 

How can your family PowerUp?  Follow our countdown: 

  • Eat 5 Fruits, roots and vegetables every day! 
  • Have 4 Colors or more on your plate
  • Eat 3 Meals everyday 
  • Watch 2 Hours or less of screen time
  • Have 1 Hour of play 
  • Drink 0 Sugary drinks!