The Healthy SC Challenge is an initiative of South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford and SCDHEC.
The following is a growing list of groups who are working to improve health and wellness in their communities and have registered with the Healthy SC Challenge. To register, please click here.
All-Health Team
Sponsored by SCDHEC and WIS TV in Columbia, the All-Health Team recognizes youth who are making a positive impact on the health of their community.
Body Fun
Sponsored by the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation, this website engages kids through resources and fun online game, all designed to help children learn to make healthy lifestyle choices in this entertaining and educational experience.
Center for Disease Control Family History Initiative
Learn more about the role your family’s medical history plays a role health today and in the future.
The Export Center
The Center's mission is to empower racial/ethnic rural minority families and communities to reduce health disparities by helping them attain maximal health through culturally sensitive, community-based research, training and outreach.
Fixin' Healthcare
This blog from Dr. Marcus Newberry of Greenville, SC offers regular posts and an exchange of ideas on how to fix our health care system.
Hands on Health
Hands on Health provides credible, searchable health information on issues such as diseases, healthier lifestyles, statistics and the latest health news.
Hollings Cancer Center
The Center makes great strides in cancer treatment, research, and education in an effort to bring increasingly effective prevention and state-of-the-art cancer care to South Carolinians.
Light The Night
Light The Night Walk is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's nationwide evening Walk to build awareness of blood cancers and raise funds for cures. Enter your zip code to learn about walks near you.
Nature Conservancy South Carolina Chapter
You can get in shape exploring the beautiful nature preserves detailed in this site.
Quit for Keeps
Quit for Keeps offers support for quitting smokers through a toll-free quitline. From 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, smokers can call 1-877-44U-QUIT and speak with trained cessation counselors who can create a personalized plan to quit.
Rage Against the Haze
Rage Against the Haze is a movement against smoking and the Tobacco Industry’s targeting of youth. It’s a movement for teens, by teens.
South Carolina Cancer Alliance (SCCA)
SCCA is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the impact of cancer on all people in SC. Membership is open to any individual or organization interested in reducing the impact of cancer.
South Carolina Coalition for Obesity Prevention Efforts (SCCOPE)
SCCOPE launched a strategic framework to address obesity called Moving South Carolina Towards a Healthy Weight: Promoting Healthy Lifestyles and Healthy Communities.
South Carolina Nutrition Research Consortium (SCNRC)
SCNRC combines SC’s three research universities, other state colleges and universities, industry, and government to foster innovative research on nutrition and its effects and launch outreach programs to promote good nutrition and disease prevention.
South Carolina Parks Recreation & Tourism
SCPRT's State Parks page tells about the more than 80,000 acres of beautiful places where you can exercise and get fit.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
The Komen Foundation is fighting to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease by funding research grants and supporting education, screening and treatment projects in communities around the world. Komen affiliates are in the Upstate and the Lowcountry.
Why Quit
This site is a free educational resource devoted to the costs, risks and known dangers posed by smoking.
Cooper Bridge Run
The Cooper River Bridge Run is a world-class 10-K foot race promoting continuous physical activity and a healthy lifestyle.
Dr. Ann Kulze, Just Wellness
Dr. Ann and Just Wellness, LLC, the consulting firm she founded in 2002, seeks to promote importance of achieving and maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle as a means to prevent disease and maximize vitality.
Kid Gardens
A children's organic gardening and horticultural therapy service affiliated with the Children's Museum of the Lowcountry.
Lowcountry Race for the Cure
Find out about walks in the Lowcountry to raise funds to fight breast cancer.
St. Andrew’s Parks and Playgrounds
In addition to the varied fitness and recreational opportunities St. Andrew’s provides, they also strive to create a healthy working environment for their employees.
Trident United Way of Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester Counties
Health and Wellness Community Initiative also provides an online toolkit that links to specific resources to better the overall health of communities.
The Wellness Expo of Myrtle Beach
The Expo works to educate the public to attain a healthier and happier human population and environment through natural products and health care.
Newberry College
Newberry College has adopted a smoke free policy. Click here (pdf) for the Newberry College Tobacco Prevention Policy. The policy provides a resource guide for tobacco free campuses.
Palmetto SeniorCare
Palmetto SeniorCare’s Healthy Aging Program Initiative incorporates a variety of exercise programs for area seniors and others who may be challenged with obesity, arthritis, joint/bone conditions, etc.
South Carolina Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity (SCCPPA)
SCCPPA unites efforts of organizations, businesses, schools, and individuals who are concerned with promoting physical activity and health in all populations.
USC's Healthy Carolina
Through identifying areas of high health risk, Healthy Carolina encompasses the overall health and wellness of the USC community, and targets improved nutritional options, better exercise opportunities, and more smoking cessation policies.
Erskine Wellness
Campus-community initiative includes Town of Due West, Due West Retirement Center, Abbeville County memorial Hospital, Dixie High School, and Due West Family Medicine. Website pending.
Greater Greenville Shrinkdown
The Shrinkdown™ is a free healthy living program offered by the YMCA of Greenville, Furman University, St. Francis Health System and Greenville Hospital System to address the growing obesity epidemic and make Greenville healthier. Plans are in the works to expand this program throughout SC in 2006.
Greenville Walks
Intended as an extension of the Shrinkdown™, Greenville Walks is a free five-week community wellness initiative designed to promote walking.
Upstate Race for the Cure
Find out about walks in the Upstate to raise funds to fight breast cancer.