Healthy Routines
Welcome
Healthy Routines connects low-income residents to higher education, housing, & professional development opportunities who come from neighborhoods that historically have not had adequate access, but their communities have been devastated by poverty. We are here to help students out of poverty.
"The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1968 -
Who are we?
Healthy Routines is dedicated to improving the lives of people from low-income communities whose “neighborhoods” are overwhelmingly impacted by poverty.
Our mission is to promote growth and development by exposing members of our neighborhoods to transformative environments. We do this by working collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders at the communal, organizational, and governmental levels to improve, design, and implement initiatives that our neighbors can use to enhance the quality of their lives.
Healthy Routines (HR) is a nonprofit focused on neighborhood poverty. Healthy Routines addresses communal poverty primarily through supportive housing, professional development, and educational opportunities. HR has several initiatives for adults from underserved neighborhoods such as the Leadership Academy, which is a multi-layered inter-organizational collaboration that provides supportive housing and professional development.
However, as an anti-poverty organization, HR believes education is the most critical intervention for alleviating poverty’s impact on people. Therefore, HR takes an ecological approach to education, which includes providing resources to “children and adults” from underserved communities. For instance, HR has educational programs that provide resources to public elementary schools in several states as part of its children’s literacy focus. For adults who overwhelmingly come from poverty, HR provides educational opportunities to help those adults reach full potential. It is also important to note that where we find poverty, we find incarceration. Thus, HR works with post-secondary institutions to provide educational opportunities for currently and formerly incarcerated people
