Our team of dedicated volunteers have connected with organizations throughout Northeast Ohio who share the vision of improving the health and well-being of the citizens in our Northeast Ohio communities and at your company or organization.

We see this program as a guided path towards empowerment and positivity through education and encouragement focused on healthy eating, sustainability by recognizing our contribution to plastic pollution and reducing our use, community through the doing of good deeds, solid families through the inspiration towards having technology-free family dinners, steps towards getting more activity into our days and encouraging better sleep.  

The principles upon which this program is based are values to which we believe we can all ascribe.

We want a better world and we intend to held pave the way!

Say yes to Wellness!  Say yes to a WELL Cleveland.

“I fell in love with these 7 steps as they are more than the ‘eat this, don’t eat that and exercise’ type of wellness program we have grown accustomed to. We are, instead, incorporating the importance of the health of our planet, doing good for the community and each other, the importance of family with a strong focus on sustainability in the context of health and wellbeing.”  By helping people understand that all of these princlples work in concert with one another and that when we have good sustainability, comaraderie, strong families, only then can we all be well. 

Our project is designed to shine a light on what is important and to raise awareness.  One example is from one of our 26 Cleveland companies that participated in our last 7 Weeks to Wellness Challenge.  During the week of "Don't Use Plastic Bottles", the challenge is designed for each individual to count their contribution to the plastics pollution problem.  Participants  were to count every piece of plastic that they put into the environment.  Every spoon, fork, cup, straw, container, etc. that they used and then discarded. This company wrote to us to say that "we did not realize how bad the plastic pollution problem had become. When we dug in a little deeper, we realized that there are floating plastic garbage patches in the ocean, and even in Lake Erie, that are composed of thousands of pounds of plastic waste.  This is affecting the quality of our water and our sea life and therefore, us!  As a result, this company immediately took steps to become more sustainabie and provided reusable water bottles, eliminated the use of straws on campus and encouraged the use of reusable containers of all types.  Not only are they now more sustainable, but they feel better about themselves and their company!

Another company shared that they began providing healthy, organic fruits and vegetables in their lunch room for their employees.  By buying organic and local, we are eliminating some of the toxic load from glyphosate and other chemicals used in conventional farming, the emissions realted to transporting food from far away places and therefore, once again, being kind to the planet.

It is our intention to take this information on the road and teach our program in more companies, organizations and also to get it into our schools. Our hope is that the lessons taught and learned will be shared throughout families and communities. We need these funds to build on what we have started and take this information to the public!  After all, knowledge is power.