Plus-10 Initiative

The University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health produced a graph charting the average lifespan in Pittsburgh’s 90 neighborhoods. At the top of the list was Highland Park whose average lifespan was reported as 85 years of age. At the bottom of the list is Larimer with an average lifespan of 63 years of age. These two communities are separated by less than three

hundred yards.

The Plus-10 Initiative will work to reduce this differential by 10 years, providing nutrition education, cooking demonstrations and recipes led by our chefs and nutritionists by addressing many of the sources of the most prevalent chronic diseases. High school culinary students will shadow chefs in the process, where they can receive additional skills that can be utilized in

homes of young families and also facilitating a pipeline where culinary interests can be broadened. These are the benefits when you join the P-10 team!