Healthy Jackson

Use the list below to find places to go to stay fit and community health programs. Get involved with community efforts to improve your health and the health of your community.

Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi
350 West Woodrow Wilson, Suite 499
Jackson, MS 39213
Phone: 601-362-0740
Fax: 601-362-4720
http://www.healthy-miss.org

Services include tobacco prevention programs for youth, teachers, faith-based organizations, college students, and law enforcement.

Diabetes Prevention and Control Program
Mississippi State Department of Health
570 East Woodrow Wilson
P.O. Box 1700, Suite 300
Jackson, MS 39215-1700
Phone: (601) 576-7781
Fax: (601) 576-7444

Services include Diabetes Advisory Council, professional education, lower extremity amputation prevention, community outreach, diabetes collaboration, and tracking of diabetes affecting Mississippi.

Stork’s Nest
350 W Woodrow Wilson Ave
Jackson, MS 39213
Phone: (601) 981-9777

This collaboration between the March of Dimes and Zeta Phi Beta sorority provides prenatal education and incentives for low-income pregnant women.

Health is Academic
Office of Healthy Schools
Mississippi Department of Education
http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/HealthySchools
Regina Ginn, Director

This program provides funding and resources to promote health and wellness in Mississippi’s public schools. The organization seeks to engage children in healthy eating and physical activity by reinforcing healthy diet and fitness messages.

Circuit Striders
United Methodist Church of Mississippi
Contact: Neil Hood
Epworth United Methodist Church
Phone: (601) 372-2434

Members of Methodist churches from throughout Jackson have become Circuit Striders, walking with members of other churches. After logging a certain number of miles, they become an official “Circuit Strider” and receive a t-shirt.

Hinds County Health Alliance
Jackson Medical Mall Foundation
Contact: James Malloy, M.P.H., Project Director
350 West Woodrow Wilson, Suite 615
Jackson, MS 39211
Phone: (601) 982-0673
Fax: (601) 982-0459
Email: jmalloy@son.usmed.edu

The program’s goal is to provide 45,125 of the uninsured in Hinds County, Mississippi with access to a community-based integrated delivery system (IDS) for comprehensive health care by facilitating referral to a "medical home."

As of September 2003, 55% of the previously uninsured, or 25,000 residents now have health coverage through SCHIP, Medicaid, or federally qualified community health centers (FQHCs) in the targeted area.

Hearts in Motion at Northlake Mall
Food Court at Northlake Mall
1200 E. County Line Road
Jackson, MS
Phone: (601) 948-6262
Hours: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursdays from 8:30 am – 9:00 am

For more information, call Baptist Health Systems at (601) 948-6262.