Our Mission
The Piscataquis Public Health Council, a coalition of community organizations, schools, and individuals that strives to develop an environment that supports a healthy life through education, prevention, advocacy, and services. Click here for complete mission statement.

What do we do?

• Educate our communities
• Organize teen leaders
• Protect the public from second-hand smoke
• Educate and support employers and organizations
• Help people quit using tobacco
• Promote tobacco-free policies
• Help make public recreation more accessible
• Promote healthy eating habits
• Help make nutritional food easier to get
• Foster worksite wellness programs
• Encourage policies that make it easier to be healthy.
• Provide lending library of educational materials.
• Offer educational programs.
• Political Advocates for Health locally and state-wide.
• Promote use of local farmers
• Collaborate with Piscataquis County Emergency Management Agency to develop Countywide Pandemic Flu Preparedness Plan.

In your community:

· Help your town create easily accessible parks and trails.
· Serve healthy snacks at events.
· Help plan a community garden.
· Promote tobacco-free areas.
· Become a member of the Piscataquis Public Health Council

· Challenge students to help their friends be healthier.
· Take a walk or cook a healthy meal with a young person.
· Teach kids healthy shopping.
· Help kids say no to tobacco.
· Become a member of the Health Team at your local school.

· Adopt a tobacco-free policy.
· Reward physical activity.
· Provide shower facilities.
· Serve healthy food.
· Provide insurance incentives.
· Initiate a Worksite Wellness Team.

· Lead community initiatives.
· Counsel patients on physical activity, nutrition, and the dangers of tobacco.
· Make services accessible.
· Adopt a tobacco-free policy