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Abstract #161633
Audio (mp3) recordingLori Carter-Edwards, PhD, Claudia Graham, MBA, and Heidi S. Churchill, MPH. Dept. of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, DUMC Box 2914, Durham, NC 27710, 919-681-3086, lori.c.edwards@duke.edu
Obesity during childhood is a growing public health issue in North Carolina. Maintaining and replicating successful statewide childhood obesity prevention programs may reduce or eliminate future weight-related health problems. Through its Fit Together initiative, the North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund (HWTF) funded 21 grantee organizations to address obesity prevention in children by promoting increased physical activity and healthier eating habits. These grantees, who are in their final funding year, have successfully built projects to promote healthy changes in schools and communities. Ensuring these projects are sustained, replicable, and continue to have positive health outcomes is a priority for HWTF and the grantee.
The Technical Assistance Team from the Duke Department of Community and Family Medicine is providing strategic guidance to grantees in how to effectively plan and execute sustainability plans for their childhood obesity prevention projects. Activities include conference calls; site visits; annual meetings; and a grantee workshop promoting a ten-step process to formulate sustainability plans. Assistance has varied depending on the type of grantee organization and project scope. For example, grantees with school-based projects required different sustainability strategies than grantees with community, faith-based, or medical center projects.
The Technical Assistance Team is assisting HWTF in broadening the Fit Together Initiative's efforts by developing and implementing a plan to identify replicable projects and activities. Strategies include establishing project and activity selection criteria; reporting replicable processes; and identifying project reach capacity. HWTF plans to use this information to further disseminate project successes both statewide and beyond.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, participants will be able to
- List steps for assisting grantees with sustainability planning.
- List steps to identify projects that are replicable statewide.
- Describe successes and challenges of sustaining obesity prevention programs.
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA