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Betsie Hosick Health & Fitness Center Active Steps

Active Steps is a free 10-week exercise class for people with prediabetes or diabetes that focuses on basic strength training, cardio workouts, core muscle exercises, and balance.

Betsie Hosick Health & Fitness Center Journey

Journey Program is a free 10-week class that supports individuals who have become chronically fatigued or deconditioned from cancer treatment. This class offers support to participants they battle the disease and return to normal life, focusing on strength training, cardiovascular exercise, core, and balance.

Building a Child Focused Health and Wellness Culture

This project places the child at the center and addresses multiple ways childhood nutrition and wellness can be impacted through schools, families and health care providers.

Disability Network Northern Michigan

Our staff provides information, assistance, and support to people of all ages with a wide variety of disabilities. We also work on a larger scale, helping governments, businesses, and other organizations make changes that improve life for everyone in the community.

FitKids 360

Healthy lifestyle program developed to fight childhood obesity.

Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program

Program for adults with chronic disease at low income health care facilities and for children who are overweight, obese or food insecure.

Michigan 211

Looking for help for you or a friend? You or a friend may find it difficult and time-consuming to navigate the benefit systems available from various agencies and government offices. 2-1-1 is dedicated to making it easier to learn what services you or a friend qualify for, where to go, and how to access the benefits and programs you or a friend have earned. By simply dialing 2-1-1 from any land-line (or 1-800-887-1107), texting (898211) or going on the web (www.hwmuw.org/211), you can find information and connect to hundreds of benefits that you or a friend have earned. United Way’s 2-1-1 connects people to services in Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, and Kalkaska Counties including food, shelter, utility assistance, disaster recovery, childcare, transportation, and more. Whoever you are, whatever your needs, 2-1-1 makes it easy to find help for yourself, a neighbor, or a loved one.

Munson Healthcare Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital Free Pre-Diabetes Classes

This course covers diabetes prevention strategies, including healthy food choices and controlling carbohydrates, exercise, weight loss, medications, and goal setting.

Munson Healthcare Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital Lunch and Learn Classes

Free nutrition classes led by a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with varying topics.

Live Well Benzie

Homeless Shelter Directory

Complete list of Michigan Shelters

MI Bridges Homelessness

Resources for those with housing and care needs

Michigan 211

Looking for help for you or a friend? You or a friend may find it difficult and time-consuming to navigate the benefit systems available from various agencies and government offices. 2-1-1 is dedicated to making it easier to learn what services you or a friend qualify for, where to go, and how to access the benefits and programs you or a friend have earned. By simply dialing 2-1-1 from any land-line (or 1-800-887-1107), texting (898211) or going on the web (www.hwmuw.org/211), you can find information and connect to hundreds of benefits that you or a friend have earned. United Way’s 2-1-1 connects people to services in Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, and Kalkaska Counties including food, shelter, utility assistance, disaster recovery, childcare, transportation, and more. Whoever you are, whatever your needs, 2-1-1 makes it easy to find help for yourself, a neighbor, or a loved one.

Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital

Benzie Area Christian Neighbors BACN

A community of neighbors helping neighbors

Map to Healthy Living

Map to Healthy Living (M2HL) is a service of the SNAP-Ed programming at the Michigan Nutrition Network at the Michigan Fitness Foundation. It allows users to efficiently find, visualize, and share useful information about food, nutrition and physical activity resources in the communities where they live, work, learn and play.

Michigan 211

Looking for help for you or a friend? You or a friend may find it difficult and time-consuming to navigate the benefit systems available from various agencies and government offices. 2-1-1 is dedicated to making it easier to learn what services you or a friend qualify for, where to go, and how to access the benefits and programs you or a friend have earned. By simply dialing 2-1-1 from any land-line (or 1-800-887-1107), texting (898211) or going on the web (www.hwmuw.org/211), you can find information and connect to hundreds of benefits that you or a friend have earned. United Way’s 2-1-1 connects people to services in Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, and Kalkaska Counties including food, shelter, utility assistance, disaster recovery, childcare, transportation, and more. Whoever you are, whatever your needs, 2-1-1 makes it easy to find help for yourself, a neighbor, or a loved one.

Northwest Food Coalition

Meeting the hunger needs of residents of the five county area

Grow Benzie

Fostering positive action to increase access to healthful foods, jobs, life skills, and each other

Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department

Enviromental and Personal Health, Emergency Preparedness

Adoptive Family Support Network (AFSN)

We are a parent to parent state wide support for foster, adoptive, kinship, guardianship families.

Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department

WIC supplemental food program; Home visiting services; Reproductive Health Services; Immunizations

Crystal Community Ski Club

LOOKING TO PARTICIPATE? Our Objectives To develop confidence, physical skill and sportsmanship To develop friendship and camaraderie among youth and families To evaluate and teach ski and snowboard and racing skills and maximize potential talent To furnish area youth with top notch, affordable Alpine Ski and Snowboard instruction To promote winter enjoyment and outdoor activity for families, for a lifetime

Good Samaritan Mom and Tots

Resources for mothers and children in Ellsworth, MI

Great Lakes Children's Museum

The Great Lakes Children’s Museum creates hands-on, interactive, and informal educational environments for children and the adults in their lives that invite curiosity, allow exploration, encourage participation, and celebrate the childlike wonder in all of us.

Grow Benzie

Year round youth activities including after school program, field trips, and school visits

Healthy Futures

We want to help you give your child a healthy future – and we do that by connecting you to trustworthy information and local resources

Michigan 211

Looking for help for you or a friend? You or a friend may find it difficult and time-consuming to navigate the benefit systems available from various agencies and government offices. 2-1-1 is dedicated to making it easier to learn what services you or a friend qualify for, where to go, and how to access the benefits and programs you or a friend have earned. By simply dialing 2-1-1 from any land-line (or 1-800-887-1107), texting (898211) or going on the web (www.hwmuw.org/211), you can find information and connect to hundreds of benefits that you or a friend have earned. United Way’s 2-1-1 connects people to services in Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, and Kalkaska Counties including food, shelter, utility assistance, disaster recovery, childcare, transportation, and more. Whoever you are, whatever your needs, 2-1-1 makes it easy to find help for yourself, a neighbor, or a loved one.

MIChild

MIChild is a health insurance program. It is for uninsured children of Michigan's working families. MIChild services are provided by many HMOs and other health care plans throughout Michigan.

Building Healthy Communities

Building Healthy Communities works to create supportive school environments through healthy eating and physical activity. Building Healthy Communities has three programs: The Step Up for School Wellness Program, the Elementary School Program and the Middle School Program. Read more about these programs in our program fact sheet.

de Beaumont - Bold Solutions for Healthier Communities

CityHealth works with local governments and leaders to drive improvements in the day-to-day life, well-being, and health of residents through a series of evidence-based policy recommendations.

Farm to School Movement TBAISD

Collaborates with learning community stakeholders to plan and implement programming focused on promoting student health and wellness

Great Lakes Children's Museum

The Great Lakes Children’s Museum creates hands-on, interactive, and informal educational environments for children and the adults in their lives that invite curiosity, allow exploration, encourage participation, and celebrate the childlike wonder in all of us.

Greilick Outdoor Recreation & Education Center

Greilick Outdoor Recreation & Education Center (GOREC). GOREC now welcomes Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4-H, school groups, sports teams, church groups, and others. Any who are looking for outdoor experiences. It is a true coming of circle, back to its original intent.

4754 Scout Camp Rd, Traverse City, MI 49686

Grow Benzie

Year round events including workshops and classes connecting people to healthful foods, jobs, life skills and each other

TBAISD

Farm to school involves using cooking demonstrations, cafeteria taste testings, nutrition lessons, garden plots,and farm field trips to engage students in dynamic, hands-on learning and supports teachers in meeting the state standards for elementary education.

Area Agency on Aging of Northwest Michigan

Local aging programs that provide information and services on a range of assistance for older adults and those who care for them

Benzie Senior Resources

Resources for Seniors in Benzie County

Betsie Hosick Health & Fitness Center

Senior Movement and Balance is an exercise class designed to improve daily living with a diverse blend of seated and standing exercises through cardio, flexibility, strength training, and balance.

de Beaumont - Bold Solutions for Healthier Communities

CityHealth works with local governments and leaders to drive improvements in the day-to-day life, well-being, and health of residents through a series of evidence-based policy recommendations.

Grow Benzie

Year round events including workshops and classes connecting people to healthful foods, jobs, life skills and each other

Michigan Association of Senior Centers

Find a Senior Center near you

Benzie Bus

Benzie Busing

Michigan 211

Looking for help for you or a friend? You or a friend may find it difficult and time-consuming to navigate the benefit systems available from various agencies and government offices. 2-1-1 is dedicated to making it easier to learn what services you or a friend qualify for, where to go, and how to access the benefits and programs you or a friend have earned. By simply dialing 2-1-1 from any land-line (or 1-800-887-1107), texting (898211) or going on the web (www.hwmuw.org/211), you can find information and connect to hundreds of benefits that you or a friend have earned. United Way’s 2-1-1 connects people to services in Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, and Kalkaska Counties including food, shelter, utility assistance, disaster recovery, childcare, transportation, and more. Whoever you are, whatever your needs, 2-1-1 makes it easy to find help for yourself, a neighbor, or a loved one.

Michigan Dept of Transportation MDOT

Comprehensive list of all public transportation in Michigan

Betsie Hosick Health & Fitness Center

Have Fun and Get Fit in Frankfort

Crystal Community Ski Club

LOOKING TO PARTICIPATE? Our Objectives To develop confidence, physical skill and sportsmanship To develop friendship and camaraderie among youth and families To evaluate and teach ski and snowboard and racing skills and maximize potential talent To furnish area youth with top notch, affordable Alpine Ski and Snowboard instruction To promote winter enjoyment and outdoor activity for families, for a lifetime

Department of Natural Resources DNR

You are never more than half an hour from a Michigan state park, state forest campground or state trail system. Use this application to find a facility suitable to your camping and recreation needs!

Experience 231

231’s mission is to ensure the long-term enjoyment, protection, and preservation of the unique natural resources of Northern Michigan

Great Lakes Children's Museum

The Great Lakes Children’s Museum creates hands-on, interactive, and informal educational environments for children and the adults in their lives that invite curiosity, allow exploration, encourage participation, and celebrate the childlike wonder in all of us.

Greilick Outdoor Recreation & Education Center

Greilick Outdoor Recreation & Education Center (GOREC). GOREC now welcomes Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4-H, school groups, sports teams, church groups, and others. Any who are looking for outdoor experiences. It is a true coming of circle, back to its original intent.

4754 Scout Camp Rd, Traverse City, MI 49686

Michigan River Guide

Canoe, Kayak, Tube Michigan Rivers

Mud and Obstacle Runs

Comprehensive list of Michigan Mud Runs and Obstacle Runs

My North Media

Activities and attractions across northern Michigan

Pure Michigan

Get Outdoors and Get Active! Pure Michigan gives you resources on getting active anywhere in Michigan

Races in Michigan

Running, Walking, Triathlon, Cycling

Running Races in Michigan

List of running races in Michigan

Traverse City Track Club

Traverse City Track Club hosts great events each year

Tri Up North

The Tri Up North triathlons are bike, paddle, run triathlons in Frankfort, Michigan put on by the Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. This event centers around Frankfort's Betsie Bay on the Western shore of Lake Michigan which is the perfect setting for a triathlon. Tri Up North features to different triathlon courses: The Classic 10 mile event which is specifically geared toward beginners and those who are looking for a little motivation to become more active and the Challenger 22 mile event which is a competitive course for experienced athletes and relay teams looking for a challenge. For those who would like to participate but aren't interested in tackling a triathlon there is the Betsie Bay Walk, this fun non-timed 2.5 mile walk may be the perfect fit!