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Move twenty minutes
A brisk walk after a meal is enough.
Moving after eating helps your body use blood sugar instead of storing it.
A community health movementWellness is our collective
Wellness is our collective
inheritance.
Together Be Well increases health awareness and reduces health disparities in the minority community — through education, connection, and simple actions anyone can start today.
AwarenessEducationSimple action
Wellness is our collective inheritance.
Why we exist
Zip code, income and skin color still predict how long a person lives. We are here to change what happens in between — one conversation, one reading, one habit at a time.
Our mission is to increase health awareness and reduce health disparities among the minority community. We do it by meeting people where they already are, teaching in plain language, and making the next step small enough to actually take.
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Awareness
We take health out of the waiting room and into kitchens, barbershops, churches and group chats — the places people already trust.
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Education
Plain-language teaching on the numbers that decide how long we live: blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, sleep and family history.
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Simple action
Small, repeatable steps that survive a busy week. Five everyday actions, taught by neighbors for neighbors.
“Nobody here needs a lecture. People need a neighbor who knows the numbers and walks with them.”
01Our work
Programs that go where the people already are
Four programs, one idea: awareness that ends in action. Every one of them is free, led by neighbors, and built for the real week you are living.
Screening & awareness
Know Your Numbers
Free blood pressure, blood sugar and BMI checks hosted where people already gather.
How it worksHabits & longevity
The Everyday Five
Five simple daily actions that protect the heart, the brain and the years ahead.
How it worksEducation circles
Kitchen Table Talks
Small circles in living rooms and fellowship halls about the health we inherit.
How it worksMovement
Walk With Me
Neighborhood walking groups and a six-week step challenge with real people, not an app.
How it works02Start today
The Everyday Five
Longevity is rarely a grand gesture. It is five small things, done often, that quietly protect your heart, your brain and your years. Pick one this week — not five.
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Half a plate of plants
Vegetables, beans, fruit, whole grains.
Fiber feeds a healthier gut and helps keep blood pressure steady.
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Know your numbers
Blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol — once a year.
Most of what quietly shortens life is silent until it is not.
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Protect your sleep
Seven to eight hours, at the same time most nights.
Sleep is when the body repairs blood vessels, hormones and memory.
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Stay connected
One real conversation, every single day.
Isolation carries health risk on its own. Connection is medicine that costs nothing.
03The longevity library
Health tips you can use before dinner
Salt hides in bread, not the shaker
Most of the sodium we eat is already in the food before it reaches the table.
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Walk after you eat
Ten to twenty minutes after a meal is the easiest win in the day.
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Sleep debt is real, and it stacks
Lost hours are not erased by one long weekend.
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04Where we stand
Measured in neighborhoods, not press releases
We count what we can stand behind: readings taken, doors knocked, groups formed, and neighbors who stayed in the program.
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neighborhood events each year
4,100
blood pressure and blood sugar readings taken
1,150
neighbors walking through the Everyday Five
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partner groups, churches and shops
How we hold ourselves
- Every dollar stays in the neighborhoods we serve.
- Programs are led by trained neighbors, not outside staff.
- We publish what we measure, including what did not work.
Who we build with
- Churches & faith homes
- Barbershops & salons
- Community clinics
- Schools & youth programs
- Housing & senior centers
If your church, shop, clinic or block club wants a screening table, a walking group or a Kitchen Table Talk, you can register your group in about two minutes.
05Get involved
Two ways to move this forward
One person can start a habit. A group can change what a whole block believes is normal.
Give to the mission
Every dollar stays in the neighborhoods we serve.
No national overhead, no distant office. Gifts pay for screening supplies, printed materials, walk leader training and the small costs that keep neighbors showing up.
Donate- $25A screening table stocked for one afternoon
- $60Twelve weeks of Everyday Five materials for a family
- $150A Kitchen Table Talk hosted in a neighbor's home
Amounts shown are examples of what a gift covers. Every gift, of any size, is put to work locally.