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About Live Healthy Cherokee

Live Healthy Cherokee is building a community where everyone has a fair and just opportunity for health and wellbeing.

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OVERVIEW

Our Approach to Your Health

Who?

Live Healthy Cherokee is a partnership of local organizations, health providers, and residents working together to make healthy living easier for everyone.

What?

We bring community partners together to identify local health priorities, compile and share data, and coordinate action on issues like nutrition, physical activity, chronic disease, mental wellbeing, and access to care.

Where?

Across Cherokee County — in our neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, and anyplace we gather as a community — we’re connecting people with the resources and opportunities that shape and impact health every day.

Why?

Because a healthier community benefits all of us — improving quality of life, strengthening families, and creating a stronger future for Cherokee County.

Our Timeline

  • 2009

    The Cherokee County Indicators Project identifies public health as a priority area in 2009.

  • 2013 - 2017

    The Eat Smart Move More Cherokee County Coalition, led by Know(2), is formed in 2013 with a focus on nutrition and physical activity programs.

  • 2015

    Know(2) becomes a 501(c)3 in 2015 and expands the mission of the Indicators Project to include education and economic development as well as public health.

  • 2021

    Eat Smart Move More rebrands to Wholespire Cherokee in 2021 to better reflect advocacy and community action.

  • 2017 - 2021

    Through the leadership of Know(2) and Wholespire programs such as FIT2gether and Thrive-U were developed from 2017 to 2021.

  • 2021

    KNOW(2) launches its local initiative, FoodShare Cherokee, in April 2021.

  • 2024

    KNOW(2) leads the Coalition through the rebrand to Live Healthy Cherokee and launches the 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment.

  • 2025

    Live Healthy Cherokee is awarded $100,000 through the Healthy People Healthy Carolinas program funded by The Duke Endowment in 2025. The priority focus for these funds is Healthy Eating and Active Living.

  • 2026

    Live Healthy Cherokee was awarded a 5-year implementation grant through Healthy People Healthy Carolinas and launched their 2026-2028 Community Health Improvement Plan with focus areas including: Behavioral Health, Chronic Health Conditions, and Resilient Children and Families. Two other areas of focus include Community Engagement and Policy/Advocacy efforts.

LIVE HEALTHY CHEROKEE

Our Team

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Libbie Cheek
Coalition Coordinator | Live Healthy Cherokee

Involving Our Community

Collective impact is a network of community members, organizations, and institutions who advance health by learning together, aligning, and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems-level change. We could not do this work without the support and leadership of our partners:

Community Advisory Board & Partners

Live Healthy Committees

Community Ambassadors