Get Involved

Get Active

The Minnesota Department of Health
Offers a wealth of information and tips for families and individuals to increase their physical activity and optimize health.

Calculate your Body Mass Index
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides tips and information for losing weight and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Do.
Developed by Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota and the American Heart Association, the Do physical activity campaign gives ideas about how individuals can get more active in their home lives and at the workplace.

Steps to a Healthier MN
Gives tips, information and events listings geared toward increasing activity and improving health. Focus areas include obesity, diabetes, asthma, nutrition, physical activity and tobacco cessation.

Food For Thought

The International Food Information Council
Provides extensive information on cooking safety, nutrition information, research on biotechnology and trends research.

Health Fair 11
Provides news and other information related to taking charge of your health. Includes calendar of regular health checks, "Ask a Pharmacist" and a contact list of health-related organizations in Minnesota.

Help Out

The Red Cross
Offers classes in CPR and first aid, provides ways to donate blood and involves the community by giving speaking engagments and utilizing volunteers.

Memorial Blood Centers
At Memorial Blood Centers, you can donate whole blood, platelets and plasma.

People Incorporated
Provides a variety of opportunities to volunteer to assist people with mental illness or brain injuries and to reduce stigma.

Volunteer Match
Lists a variey of ways to volunteer with organizations committed to improving the health of our community. Opportunities range from teaching lab science to young children, volunteering at a gala to raise money and awareness about AIDS, or comfortaing bereaved families of patients in hospice care, and many others.