4256.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | ||||
Oral Session | ||||
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| This session will present results from a community-planning process undertaken by the East Side Village Health Worker Partnership on Detroir's east side, a project of the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center. The Partnership began in 1996, and has as its main goal to address underlying social determinants of health on Detroit's east side. Partnership membeers include the Butzel Family Center, Detroit Health Department, Kettering-Butzel Health Initiative, Friends of Parkside, Henry Ford Health System, Warren Conner Development Coalition, Islandview Development Corporation, VISIONS, the East Side Parish Network, and approximately 30 community members who are active as Village Health Workers or lay health advisors. The session will describe a community planning process undertaken by the ESVHWP, and the process used to bring together multiple perspectives and information sources to arrive at Partnership priotities. Several of the specific projects that have been, or are being developed as a result of this proces will be discussed, along with challenges and facilitating factors in the development of those efforts. | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives | ||||
| Sharon Sand, MPP | ||||
| Amy Schulz, PhD | ||||
| 1. Establishing priorities for the East Side Village Health Worker Partnership Edith Parker, DrPH, Murlisa Robinson, MA, Amy Schulz, PHD, Barbara Israel, DrPH, Geneva Edwards, MPH, Alex Allen, MA | ||||
| 2. Healthy Eating and Exercising to reduce Diabetes (HEED) Teretha Hollis-Neely, Murlisa Robinson, MA, Angela Odoms, PhD, Robin Nwankwo, MS, Amy Schulz, PHD | ||||
| East Side Village Health Worker Partnership building bridges: Health and safety issues for an urban community Yolanda Hill, MSW, Murlisa Robinson, MA, Margarette Taylor, Alex Allen, MA | ||||
| Lay health advisor conceptualizations of community and implications for action Amy Schulz, PHD, Adam Becker, PhD, Yolanda Hill, MSW, Barbara Israel, DrPH, Edith Parker, DrPH | ||||
| Sharing results with community participants in the East Side Village Health Worker Partnership Juliana van Olphen, PhD, Cynthia Bailey, Jessie Kirby, Yvette Banks, Jackie Terrell, Amina Muhammed, Amy Schulz, PHD, Barbara Israel, DrPH | ||||
| Sponsor: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development | |||
| Cosponsors: | Academic Public Health Caucus; Latino Caucus; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus; Association of Schools of Public Health | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | |||