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Building health from the ground up ….

Building health from the ground up …. March 6, 2009. The Chronic Disease Prevention Initiative ( CDPI ). Designed to address the common modifiable risk factors : Support people to live smoke free Encourage healthy eating Promote active living

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Building health from the ground up ….

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  1. Building health from the ground up …. March 6, 2009

  2. The Chronic Disease Prevention Initiative (CDPI) Designed to address the common modifiable risk factors : • Support people to live smoke free • Encourage healthy eating • Promote active living …through local actions, evidence informed approaches and the creation of supportive environments for healthy lifestyle choices and behaviours.

  3. CDPI • Community led • Regionally coordinated • Government supported

  4. Community Leading the Journey • Local • Planning committees and champions • Community engages volunteers • Community health information collection and effective use in building supports for healthy living • Action plans with per capita funding • Starting where community is at and address barriers to participation • Find and match community needs with resources • Community pride & “yes-we-can” attitude

  5. Community Leading The Journey • 83 communities in all participating regional health authorities including 21 First Nations and 7 Métis communities • For example: • Train the Trainers – growing community expertise • Making it easy for people to connect e.g. “Where to get active” directory • Power of community success

  6. Training Coordination • CDPI Training committee • Regional representation to guide provincial action • Strong & diverse skill sets • Coordination with regional training plans • Create a “multiplier effect”

  7. Training Coordination Principles of working together • Building on community & regional knowledge & successes • Linking – learning – sharing • Engage – educate – equip – enable – encourage • Supporting the stage for success at many levels • Learn why it worked or why not

  8. Healthy Together Now • “Healthy Together Now” • Package of communication tools & resources for communities & regions to use • Putting the face on CDPI & action for prevention • Let’s take a look….

  9. Healthy Together Now • Presentations to schools, boards, community groups • Partners meetings • Groups of expertise e.g. Planning Network, Recreation Connections • Funders, RHA boards & executive management teams

  10. Learnings • Make it easy for all to use • Plain language is best • Power of stories • Give the voice to change & real action at community level • Provide respect for the work volunteers do • Convey the wisdom of experience, lay knowledge

  11. Learnings • Stories help us focus on: • The right problems • Most appropriate solutions – question not do they work but how are they experienced • valuable insight to programs/services

  12. Questions ??

  13. Contact information Betty Kozak Provincial Coordinator Chronic Disease Prevention Initiative Box 12 40, 485 Hospital St. Neepawa, Manitoba R0J 1H0 (204) 476-7843 or (204) 476-0467 (cell) Bkozak@arha.ca

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