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Your Health Matters: Growing Active, Healthy Communities

Learn how to identify and engage community partners to create healthy communities through coalitions. Discover existing coalitions and diverse partnerships essential for promoting physical activity and healthy eating.

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Your Health Matters: Growing Active, Healthy Communities

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  1. Your Health Matters: Growing Active, Healthy Communities 4: Partners

  2. Partners: Learning Objectives • Identify potential community partners to work with to create a healthy community. • Practice techniques to increase confidence in and ability to engage community partners and grow healthy communities.

  3. What is a coalition? • A coalition is a group of people taking action together to reach a common goal. Plan Healthy Texas www.planhealthytexas.org

  4. What coalitions already exist in your community that are focused on health? Are community members already a part of these?

  5. Why would you have a coalition? • Sets priorities based on multiple perspectives • Has subcommittees allowing for lots of work to be done • Decisions are shared by more people • Decisions made in coalitions can reach broader networks

  6. Diverse Representation • Coalitions should represent: • Different neighborhoods • Cultural groups • Faith-based organizations • A mix of ages • All genders • All abilities

  7. Diverse partnership makes for diverse skill sets Health and medical care communities Faith communities Elected officials Local businesses, restaurants and worksites Community members Community Leadership Team Transportation departments Schools Parks and recreation departments And many more… Grocery stores and food vendors Local farmers Active Texas 2020: Taking Action to Improve Health By Promoting Physical Activity. http://bvopn.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Active-Texas-2020-Exe-Summ.pdf

  8. Always Changing • Coalitions change: • Depending on the task at hand. • As priorities change. • As the project grows.

  9. What Makes a Healthy Community? http://youtu.be/LeJ-Ub7M2sI

  10. Welcome to Unhealthy, Texas USA COMMUNITY INPUT Barriers to Physical Activity and Healthy Eating What Works Establish Priorities: Important and/or Doable Take Action South North • Why is this partner interested in being a part of this coalition? • What type of power does this partner have in the community? • How will this partner benefit from participating in this coalition? Our Priority: _____________ Partners:

  11. Who in your own communities would be critical members of a coalition to increase physical activity and healthy eating? What existing groups? Which individuals? What organizations?

  12. Partners:Key Point Recap • Coalitions consist of individuals who have a variety of skills and backgrounds. • Who should we include? • Community members • Businesses and restaurants • Faith communities • Health care • Decision makers • Schools • City and county governments • Grocery stores and food vendors • Farmers

  13. Let’s move! 10-minute Activity Break

  14. MY PLAN Partners Who are you going to partner with? Examples: transportation, faith-based, school, restaurants

  15. Switch to Community Assessments PowerPoint

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