Enhancing Our Physical Environment
Engaging in outdoor activities like walking, biking, or playing offers significant physical and mental benefits. Studies show that simply being in green spaces can make us feel better. By enhancing existing green spaces and adding more ways for people to enjoy them, we help foster healthier lifestyles in our community.
Healthy West Orange Building
The Healthy West Orange Building is home to the Foundation for a Healthier West Orange, our flagship HUBB resource center and five leased suites for local organizations – many of which are dedicated to elevating the health and wellness of our community.
The 23,000 square-foot multi-purpose office and community space fuels the mission in multiple ways:
- Community building: West Orange County residents can access health and wellness classes, support groups, information, resources and referrals, all in a single location.
- Capacity building: Local nonprofits and organizations can leverage the Healthy West Orange Grove meeting room for events and mission expansion.
- Social enterprise: Tenant lease income preserves the building for the long-term sustainability that benefits the community into the future.
To learn more about the Healthy West Orange Grove meeting room, click the link below.
Healthy West Orange Arts and Heritage Center at the Town of Oakland
The Healthy West Orange Arts and Heritage Center is committed to preserving Oakland’s past, present and future. In addition, it serves as a community gathering space for health and wellness offerings, health screenings, chronic disease support groups, and fitness education classes.
Healthy West Orange Wellness Park in Ocoee
The five-acre park includes a half-mile, 10-foot-wide multipurpose trail around both ponds and four shaded wellness stations, two of which have suspension-fitness equipment for strength training.
Healthy West Orange Education Center at Nehrling Gardens
Nehrling Gardens is a community resource focused on historic preservation, horticultural education and environmental conservation. Its education center will allow for activities, events and programming to help visitors enhance their health and well-being.
Tucker Ranch
Tucker Ranch will be the first comprehensive physical and mental wellness park in the nation. It features a 5,000-square-foot retreat center, teaching and working farm, outdoor demonstration kitchen, greenhouse, gardens, trails, outdoor fitness and recreational areas. The park focuses on four pillars: food and nutrition, fitness and rehabilitation, natural environment and mental health.
Healthy West Orange Trails Connection
The West Orange Trails Connection is a collaboration that promotes, activates, and enhances the trail system throughout West Orange. As a member of the executive committee, the Foundation guides the committee toward one goal: to connect a dynamic regional trail system that residents can enjoy close to home.
