📍 Map Your Community is HERE!
Drop a pin anywhere in Snohomish or King County and help us identify backyard gardens, green infrastructure, and food-growing potential. Choose a Community Healthy Living (CHLI) stage and optionally share a photo or comment! Please allow a few seconds for the "Submit Score Button" to send a confirmation.
🗺️ CHLI Stage Key
Learn what each CHLI stage means as you score your community using the map.
- 🌱 Stage 1 – Planting the Seeds: Minimal or no green infrastructure. Mostly turf or paved surfaces. No signs of food-growing.
- 🌿 Stage 2 – Nurturing for Growth: Early signs of gardens or planters. A few fruit trees or raised beds may be visible.
- 🌳 Stage 3 – Nourishing a Root System: Multiple visible garden beds, compost, fruit trees, or green infrastructure working together.
- 🌼 Stage 4 – Cultivating Healthy Fruit: Mature gardens with diversity of plants and systems. A clear focus on food production and ecological health.
- 🏆 Stage 5 – Harvesting the Rewards: Fully integrated growing system with layered planting, pollinator support, composting, and educational or community use.
🔬 Research & Innovation
Data-Driven Strategies for Lasting Health Improvements
At Baton Health®, we believe research and innovation go hand-in-hand with community action. Our work is grounded in Community Healthy Living—and the science of evaluating and improving environments and health outcomes where people live, work, learn, play, and grow.
What We Do
- Identify opportunities for healthy eating and active living
- Map gaps and assets across neighborhoods, schools, worksites, and after-school programs
- Catalyze community engagement through participatory data and storytelling
- Drive systemic change via actionable policy, proven health improvement programs, environmental recommendations, and access to hands-on programming
Team Projects
A pioneering model of sustainable agriculture, whole child, and whole community health.
Bridging local food access, senior health, and community.
A hyper-local solution to food insecurity and neighborhood abundance.
Statewide guide for reducing food waste and boosting sustainability.
A digital prototype for behavior coaching and health ownership.
🌍 From Assessment to Action
We don't stop at research. We help communities:
- Strengthen leadership teams
- Conduct place-based assessments
- Launch improvement plans
- Monitor outcomes and progress
- Advocate for lasting change
Whether you're a school district, nonprofit, community health worker, or city planner—we equip you to become the credential for your own community’s health.