Program funded: 2012, 2013, 2014

“You can’t control the deck of cards you’re dealt. But you can control how you play them.” – Joe Piscatella

Developing healthy lifestyle habits is a critical step to living a full and healthy life. During this six-week program, participants have biometric health screenings conducted twice, once at the beginning and once at the end. Their results, combined with the information and tips they learn during six seminars on longevity, nutrition, exercise, stress management and cooking, will create the foundation for developing new healthy lifestyle habits that they can build upon when the program ends.

Registration is now open for the 2014 program, beginning Tuesday, April 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Lynnwood Convention Center. Learn more and sign up on the registration website.

Verdant works with a number of community partners on this program to support and supplement the information presented by Joe Piscatella. Cooking and fitness classes and discounts at local retailers help support the participants’ efforts to get healthy. In 2014, partners include:

• Swedish/Edmonds
• PCC Natural Markets
• Boys & Girls Club of Snohomish County – Edmonds Unit
• City of Edmonds
• City of Lynnwood
• City of Mountlake Terrace
• Edmonds Community College
• Edmonds School District
• Fedelta Care Solutions
• Harbor Square Athletic Club
• Molina Healthcare
• Premera Blue Cross
• Sno-Isle Libraries
• Snohomish County
• University of Washington, Bothell
• YMCA of Snohomish County
• Dale Turner Family YMCA

Nearly 500 people participated in this program in the spring of 2012, with hundreds more in 2013.