Healthy Utah Community

Get Healthy Utah is excited to partner with the Utah League of Cities and Towns to support Healthy Utah Community, a new designation program for cities and towns. This designation recognizes communities across Utah that do an exemplary job of implementing evidence-based strategies to improve community health.

Santaquin

Santaquin

  • Population: 15,400
  • Designation Year: Spring 2023
  • Santaquin created an ongoing section titled "Healthy Santaquin" on their quarterly Santaquin Community Services Board Committee agenda, setting aside time to discuss activities, points of policy, and events that impact the health of residents. The community is proactive in ensuring that residents have fun opportunities to be healthy, including Summer in the Park programs for kids, senior center meals, pickleball courts,and a disc golf course. Santaquin also provided incentives for a grocery store to locate in an underserved area and offers free fitness and stress-reduction classes to city employees as part of their wellness plan.

  • Access to Healthy Food:
    • Provided financial incentives for a grocery store to locate in an underserved area
  • Active Living:
    • Free and/or low-cost community sports/fitness programs for adults and children
  • Mental Health:
    • At least one evidence-based program or inititiative that provides education, awareness, and training to community members around mental health