Annual Meeting Recordings are now available for purchase
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
: 8:54 AM - 9:02 AM
Vedette Gavin, MPH
,
Case Center for Reducing Health Disparities, MetroHealth, Cleveland, OH
Erica Chambers, MPH
,
Case Center for Reducing Health Disparities at MetroHealth, Cleveland, OH
Chris Benninger
,
Your Story on Film, Chippewa Lake, OH
Sandra Chappelle, MBA
,
Strategic Solutions LLC, OH
Eileen Seeholzer, MD, MPH
Janeen Leon, MS, RD, LD
Neighborhoods, the places we live, work, play and grow, impact health. In three adjoining inner-city Cleveland neighborhoods, residents have an average life expectancy 15 years less than that of a nearby suburb. To address this disparity the Saint Luke’s Foundation, a local health funder created a Fellowship to develop a strategic community engagement process to support residents in establish a Healthy Eating and Active Living (HEAL) culture and lifestyle in the neighborhoods. The Fellow developed and advanced a model, engaging the community in establishing HEAL options and culture. Using the model, residents identified a shared vision for HEAL and collaborated with community partners to create and sustain innovative HEAL opportunities. This community-led, collaborative model produced high engagement levels (15% of targeted 12,000 residents) and tangible improvements in the neighborhood’s physical, resource, and social environments. Envisioned, implemented and led by community, the HEAL Initiative is sweeping through the Buckeye, Larchmere, and Woodland Hills neighborhoods on the East Side of Cleveland, Ohio. Gaining momentum, residents are coming together to transform their neighborhood environment to create and promote options for healthy food and exercise. The HEAL Documentary captures and shares this community’s journey to HEAL itself. As you'll find, HEAL is not so much a program, as it is a MOVE-ment. Neighbors are helping neighbors live well; and the possibilities for positive change are only limited by the vision that the community casts for itself.
http://vimeo.com/yourstoryonfilm/healinitiative
Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Assessment of individual and community needs for health education
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Program planning
Learning Objectives:
Describe the connection between the social determinants of health, “place”, healthy choices and community health
Identify strategies to engage communities in creating options and opportunities for healthy food and exercise in their neighborhoods.
Formulate ideas on what is needed to cultivate a community-led movement to improve physical, social and resource conditions in neighborhoods: community cohesion, awareness, readiness and mobilization.
Keyword(s): Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and, Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), app
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: In my role as Community Health Fellow, I led and directly oversaw the development, implementation and evaluation of the Healthy Eating & Active Living initiative - a place-based, community-led model for community health. Additionally I have worked in various public health settings (academic, healthcare, and government) to protect and promote community health at the neighborhood, city, county and systems level by idetntifying and addressing health disparities and advancing health equity work.
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.
