Announcing the Next Chapter of Meatless Monday and Healthy Monday

The Monday Campaigns, a public health initiative that promotes sustainable behavior change by dedicating every Monday to health, is starting a new chapter.

Meatless Monday:

Meatless Monday has a new Meatless Monday Resource Center which will be housed with our long-time science advisor and partner, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Over our 22 year history, Center for a Livable Future has worked extensively with Meatless Monday to provide science and technical assistance to develop our programs and resources.

The new Meatless Monday Resource Center, built for the public health community, implementers, and advocates is dedicated to preserving the legacy and history of the campaign, and features essential materials, resources, and research for implementing Meatless Monday programs.

Healthy Monday:

Healthy Monday has a new home at the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health at Syracuse University (SU), a leading research institution. SU has a strong track record in public health promotion, including the creation of DeStress for Success, a widely adopted stress management program for students.

This transition signifies a new phase of growth for Healthy Monday. As part of this exciting launch, the team at Syracuse will host updated digital materials and programming on a new website, initiate a broad campaign through social media, newsletters, and other platforms, implement new signature wellness initiatives, and involve students in developing messaging to improve population health.

Here’s more information on these transitions:

Center for a Livable Future Launches Meatless Monday Online Resource Center

Meatless Monday is a global movement that encourages people to reduce meat in their diet for their health and the health of the planet. The campaign was started in 2003 by Sid Lerner, the founder of The Monday Campaigns, in association with the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Built on the simple idea that skipping meat just one day a week could drive big change, Meatless Monday has grown into a global movement supported by individuals, chefs, restaurants, schools, hospitals, and entire cities. Since its inception, the Center for a Livable Future has provided science advisory and technical assistance to the campaign, quantifying impacts, and initiating peer-reviewed research.

Building on this work, the Center for a Livable Future launched a dynamic new online resource center for the public health community, implementers, and advocates. The resource center will house the most essential and relevant materials, tools, resources, and research that partners can use to implement Meatless Monday. Comprised of the most powerful resources from the last decade, augmented by new and emerging materials, including toolkits, multimedia content and research briefs, that will help partners create sustainable, healthy food systems, the new resource center will be inspiring, accessible, and easy to use.

Healthy Monday Moves to the Maxwell School’s Lerner Center at Syracuse University

Healthy Monday, launched in 2006, harnesses the power of Monday as a “fresh start” by offering resources for individuals and organizations to adopt healthier habits each week, aiming to reduce the risk of chronic disease. Healthy Monday began as an expansion of the Meatless Monday campaign, working with a range of partners, from universities and workplaces to communities and schools. Through Healthy Monday, individuals and organizations use turnkey program guides or design their own programs to commit to better health every Monday.

The Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health, part of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, will be the new home for Healthy Monday. The center will house digital materials and programming on a new designed website, initiate a broad campaign through social media, newsletters, and other platforms, implement signature programs that leverage SU’s expertise in areas such as veterans’ health, and continue to involve students in developing and implementing programming aimed at improving population health.

NYU Langone Launching Healthy Monday for Hospitals

As efforts to scale and expand the “Monday fresh start” concept grow, NYU Langone Health will launch a Healthy Monday for Hospitals initiative, which is designed to develop and disseminate programs tailored to the needs of healthcare workers, patients, and their families. Hospitals and health care providers have long been critical partners in the development of The Monday Campaigns initiatives. NYU Langone will work closely with key partners that have implemented Healthy Monday wellness programs for healthcare workers and medical residents in need of stress management and relaxation techniques.

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