Santaquin

Santaquin created an ongoing section titled "Healthy Santaquin" on their quarterly Santaquin Community Services Board Committee agenda, setting aside time to discuss activities, points of policy, and events that impact the health of residents. The community is proactive in ensuring that residents have fun opportunities to be healthy, including Summer in the Park programs for kids, senior center meals, pickleball courts,and a disc golf course. Santaquin also provided incentives for a grocery store to locate in an underserved area and offers free fitness and stress-reduction classes to city employees as part of their wellness plan.

HEALTH STRATEGIES

Active Living

• Offer free and/or low cost community sports programs for both adults and children
• Create an active transportation plan

Access to Healthy Food

• Host a community program to promote healthy eating
• Provide financial incentives for a grocery store to locate in an underserved area

Mental Health

• Host a reoccurring community event that promotes social connection for a vulnerable demographic
• Implement one new worksite wellness strategy around mental health among city employees and/or local businesses

2026 Redesignation

Santaquin earned its redesignation in 2026. Since their original designation in 2023, the city promoted active living by offering free and low-cost community sports programs for both youth and adults, including disc golf, drop-in pickleball, and its Summer in the Park series, and by adopting an active transportation plan to support safer, more accessible movement throughout the community. Santaquin also strengthened access to healthy food by hosting cooking classes to promote nutritious eating and by providing financial incentives to bring a Macey’s grocery store to an underserved area, improving local food access. In support of mental well-being, the city fostered social connection through recurring Senior Center meals and implemented workplace wellness strategies, including free stress-reducing fitness classes and an Employee Assistance Plan, helping support the mental health of city employees and the broader community.

HEALTH STRATEGIES

Access to Healthy Food

• Offered healthy cooking classes
• Provided financial incentives for grocery stores to locate in underserved areas

Active Living

• Hosted free and low cost community sports programs 
• Created an Active Transportation plan 

Mental Health

• Hosted a recurring Senior Center meal event
• Offered free and stress reducing fitness classes to employees