The Healthy Living Innovation Awards is a new HHS initiative designed to identify and acknowledge innovative health promotion projects within the last 3 years that have demonstrated a significant impact on the health status of a community. The initiative seeks to:

• Celebrate and share innovative health promotion practices across organizations, professions, and communities;
• Increase public awareness of creative approaches that can be used to develop and expand health promotion programs, and to replicate successful strategies in various settings;
• Encourage a culture of innovation, where creativity and cross-sectoral partnerships and knowledge-sharing are embraced, enabled, and enacted;
• Increase the number and diversity of individuals, organizations, and groups addressing community health promotion; and
• Encourage people to incorporate healthy living activities into their daily lives