ABOUT US
The Foundation for Healthy Generations works to ensure all people have the equal opportunity for a healthy life. We address critical social, economic, and environmental conditions that impact health in communities with the poorest health outcomes by engaging communities, fostering learning and innovation, and advocating for system-wide changes.
OUR MISSION & VISION
We transform systems, policies, and practices to create equitable health outcomes and enduring health equity.
OUR TEAM
Julie Peterson, Executive Director
Edgar Lopez-Baez, Community Health Worker Specialist
Renee Rooker, Board Chair
Executive Director, Walla Walla Housing Authority
Trisha Comsti, Board Vice Chair
Program Officer, Panorama Global
Nora Coronado, Board Treasurer and Secretary
Director of Community Engagement and Development, UW School of Medicine Center for Health Equity Diversity and Inclusion
Nancy Anderson, MD, MPH, Board Member
Board-certified pediatrician, MPH in Maternal-Child Health
Lori Stolee, Board Member
Public School Educator and Administrator, retired
OUR HISTORY
Healthy Gen, a 501(c)3 public charity, is approaching a half-century of leading-edge work to improve health outcomes and wellness for all people.
Founded in 1974 as the Comprehensive Education Foundation (C.H.E.F.) by a visionary group of health educators, our original mission was to increase health and wellness through education, advocacy, and
disease prevention programs.
After three decades focusing primarily on school and community health, C.H.E.F. evolved in 2013 into the Foundation for Healthy Generations and adopted our current mission: to create enduring health equity.
Throughout the years, advocacy for system-wide changes has been core to our work. Today, Healthy Generations is leveraging our policy and advocacy history, reputation, and relationships to advocate for policies, systems, and environmental change to impact populations living with health inequities—including people of color, low income communities, and rural parts of Washington.
2013
C.H.E.F evolves to the Foundation for Healthy Generations and adopts the new mission to create enduring health equity.
2011
Prevention Alliance created in Washington State.
2007
Place Based Health Initiative launches in Clark, Pierce and Spokane Counties to prevent and reduce major health inequities across ethnic, racial, and income groups
2005
Sold full library of curriculums and educational programs to Discovery Communications.
1997
Honored with the National Recognition Award from American Association for Health Education for Distinguished Service to Health Education.
1996
First annual National Prevention Institute held in Seattle.
1994
Get Real About AIDS identified by the Center for Disease Control as a “program that works."
1991
Provided funding to the University of Washington to develop a health education pathway in the Master’s of Public Health program.
1982
First $1 million in product sales.
1977
Here’s Looking At You™, our first curriculum, is published in partnership with Educational Service District 121.
1974
Comprehensive Health Education Foundation (C.H.E.F.) is founded by a visionary group of health educators seeking to increase health and wellness through education, advocacy, and other disease prevention efforts.