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The Youth Healthy Lifestyle Project (YHLP) at EMHS was created in 2008 as a childhood obesity prevention project to help support communities in northern and eastern Maine in their efforts to increase the number of youth living a healthy lifestyle. Through partnerships with Let’s Go!, and numerous local organizations, the YHLP promotes the easy to remember, consistent healthy lifestyle messaging “5-2-1-0” in multiple sectors:


 

Using Let’s Go!’s multi-sectored approach, the YHLP has worked with schools, child care facilities, healthcare facilities, after school programs, community groups, and workplaces to address childhood obesity and promote healthy lifestyles.