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Pathways to a Community Empowerment: Implementing Advocacy Curriculum and Evaluating Access to Physical Activity Lennox Park: Lennox, California
Upon completion of the Change Starts With Me advocate training, Lennox residents are ready to participate in advocacy efforts, evaluate and speak about the built environment, and have a foundation of knowledge regarding health and nutrition. Two evaluations were conducted to (1) determine the usefulness of the Change Starts With Me Curriculum in Lennox and (2) a Lennox park assessment. Summative evaluation procedure was used for both evaluations. With the results from the park audit, a landscape designer was able to create several renderings depicting health-promoting designs to the pathways and green space in Lennox Park.
Learning Areas:
Assessment of individual and community needs for health educationCommunication and informatics
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Program planning
Public health or related public policy
Public health or related research
Learning Objectives:
Assess and evaluate the current status of an unincorporated community’s nutrition and or physical activity environment. In addition, participants will be able to identify policy solutions and community strategies to advocate for improved healthy food access and physical activity environments.
Keyword(s): Advocacy, Community-Based Partnership & Collaboration
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: N/A
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been working in the field of public health for 11 years as a community volunteer,public health graduate student and now as a masters prepared project manager. My work has focused on childhood obesity prevention through coordination of grassroots efforts to create healthy environments. In addition, I work with community members to improve access to healthy food, create awareness of healthy eating and improve walkability in neighborhoods
Any relevant financial relationships? No
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.