von Zychlin Healthy Living Center
Welcome to the Healthy Living Center
Mount Carmel Healthy Living provides FREE wellness and prevention services at the von Zychlin Healthy Living Center in Franklinton, as well as online and at select locations throughout central Ohio. Offerings include group fitness, cooking and nutrition classes, health coaching, and more. Anyone interested in learning how to achieve optimal health through lifestyle change is welcome to register for these free services, based on the six elements of a healthy lifestyle.
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Meet Our Team
Josh began his work with the Healthy Living Center in July 2015 serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA while finishing his graduate degree in Social Work at Ohio State. Josh's experiences in high school and college created a passion for grass roots community work particularly centered around food and health. Having grown up on the west side of Columbus, Josh has a special affinity for the Franklinton and Hilltop communities. When he's not coordinating programs or at community meetings, he enjoys going to the gym, trying new recipes, and thrifting for vintage antiques with his wife.
Stacey started with Mount Carmel in 2015 and joined the Healthy Living Center team in June 2018. Stacey received her Master of Public Health degree from The Ohio State University and her BA in business administration from Otterbein University. Prior to her time with Mount Carmel, Stacey spent 18 years with the Ohio Hospital Association, during which time she oversaw the Foundation for Healthy Communities and the association's public health promotion programs. Stacey lives in Alexandria with her husband, two kids, two cats and a dog.
What Are the Six Elements of a Healthy Lifestyle?
According to the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), making intentional changes in the following six areas have shown to prevent and even reverse chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and obesity. The programs offered at the Healthy Living Center follow evidence based interventions in these six areas and are meant to compliment the care you are receiving from your primary and specialty care providers.
Church Partnerships
The biggest part of our mission at Mount Carmel is to improve the health of the communities we serve. One of the many ways we do that is by building relationships with local community-based organizations including those representing all faith traditions through a program called Mount Carmel Church Partnerships.
Through Church Partnerships we assist and empower faith communities to address the unique health needs of their congregations. We do this through individual consultation and guidance to a variety of resources available; including evidence-based health education resources, expertise on establishing or enhancing health ministry programs, providing linkage to free health and wellness programming offered through Mount Carmel Healthy Living Center and other community-based organizations, and in some cases working together with partner organizations to create customized programming based on unique needs.