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Healthy Encores Sponsor Opportunities
Healthy Encores™ “Health Awareness Day”
Your company presence at Healthy Encores™, “Health Awareness Day”. A free family fun day filled with interactive
healthcare awareness information, guest appearances, national and local recording artists performances and door prizes;
Saturday, July 16, 2011 from 10:00-3:00pm on St. Thomas US
Virgin Islands. Sponsors spotlighted to the public through a number of promotional opportunities.
“Health Awareness Day” includes:
•Logo on Healthy Encores™, “Health Awareness Day” signage.
•Table at Healthy Encores™, “Health Awareness Day”.
•Logo at all events
•Mentions from stage.
“Health Awareness Day” features are:
•Healthy Cooking
•Free Health Screening and Monitoring Demonstration
•ManagingYour Health
•Eye Health
•Smoking Cessation Clinic
•Children activities
•Exercise Workshop
•Exhibitors
•Giveaways
Why the LifeStyle Festival?
Health fair - St. Thomas
Projected Attendance: 2,000+
Cancer is a chronic disease that is the second leading cause of death in both the United States and the Virgin Islands.
The Cancer Facts and Figures 2003 from the American Cancer Society states, “cancer accounts for one in every five
deaths in the United States, and one in every three Americans alive today will eventually develop cancer.” The
mortality data in the Virgin Islands mirror national trends, with Breast and Prostate cancers being the most common for
female and male deaths due to cancer.
Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) do not exist in the Virgin Islands. Medicaid managed care is also nonexistent
in the territory. The Government of the Virgin Islands, as the largest employer, offers health insurance
coverage to its employees. Health insurance fees and increased costs of health insurance continue to be a barrier for
low-income families.
Diabetes in the VI affects more Black and Hispanic residents and is more common in older adults and persons with
lower education and income levels.
The Goal of the LifeStyle Festival is to promote healthy lifestyles in conjunction with a music festival as a motivational
tool. A festival that is economically viable, socially responsible which can positively impact and improve the lives of the
entire USVI community. We will also promote the US Virgin Islands as a wonderful travel destination.
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