Healthy Living
HEALTH POLICY AND PROMOTION
When communities, businesses, and other organizations want to implement strategies to improve the health of people, CDHD is often there to help. We educate our partners on the leading causes of illness and death and provide proven practices to improve health.
Policy Analysts and Health Education Specialists work with diverse community partners to establish local policies, systems, and environmental changes to combat tobacco use, increase physical activity, improve nutrition, and prevent cancer.
CDHD helps prevent life-threatening falls in senior citizens with a free, peer-led, community exercise program called Fit and Fall Proof™.
CDHD staff also lead efforts with local health care providers on the State Healthcare Innovation Plan (SHIP), an initiative intended to provide better care, improve health, and reduce costs for all health care consumers, and work with health care providers in the community to reduce the incidence of prescription drug overdose.
Contact Us
Email Health Policy and Promotion
Health Policy & Promotion Program Manager
Jaime Aanensen, MHS, CHES
208-327-8546
Administrative Assistant
Julie Nease
208-327-8547
Administrative Assistant (for SHIP)
Cindy Lindgren
208-327-8585
Policy Analysts
Fit and Fall Proof™ Program
Program Coordinator
Mike S. Rice, MPH, CSCS, ACSM/HFS
208-327-8591
State Healthcare Innovation Plan (SHIP)
Program Manager
Melissa Dilley
208-327-8604
Quality Improvement Specialist
Kim Thurston
208-327-8589
Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention
Health Education Specialist
Tara Fouts
208-327-8521