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GRoW!! Creating a healthy community culture

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 : 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Marsha Broussard, DrPH , School Health Connection, Louisiana Public Health Institute, New Orleans, LA
Denese Vlosky, PhD , Preventive Medicine and Healthy Aging, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Kyle Hucke, PhD , Project GRoW Evaluation Team, New Orleans Kids Partnership, New Orleans, LA
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
In 2013, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation funded the New Orleans Kids Partnership (NOKP) as the lead of one of 12 collaboratives to plan and implement obesity reduction projects across the state. NOKP developed a community health behavior change program named, “Grow Resources where ya At" (GRoW). GRoW targets youth and families in three adjoining zip codes in one New Orleans neighborhood based upon an ecological model of health behavior change. Major GRoW partners include three elementary schools, a group of community based organizations that have a history of doing collective work and which provide health-based programming (4-H, Young Audiences, the Public Library, Hands on New Orleans, Up 2 Us, (part of AmeriCorps), and the Louisiana Public Health Institute which administers a coordinated school health program in the schools.

A significant component of the evaluation is the administration of a baseline survey to 4th-8th graders who attend Saturday GRoW activities, in addition to all students who attend the three targeted public charter schools. The survey, developed in conjunction with Pennington Biomedical measures attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors related to dietary choices, physical activity, and social support.

This presentation will focus on an analysis of the baseline data (n>500). These results will provide a rare snapshot of what inner city students think about nutrition and physical activity, in addition to how they behave relative to their preferences/consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables, soda, fast foods, and school food. The survey will also explore family health habits and the impact of social support from families and friends.

Learning Areas:

Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs

Learning Objectives:
Describe the self-reported, primary health habits of public school students, grades 4-8, focusing on an inner-city neighborhood of New Orleans. Baseline data will be presented. Analyze baseline findings of physical activity and dietary habits of public school students, grades 4-8, and how those are correlated with school environment and curriculum, family values and attitudes, and social support from family and friends to practice healthy behaviors.

Keyword(s): Community-Based Health, Public/Private Partnerships

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a senior public health administrator with program planning, implementation, data collection and analysis, publication and presentation experience. I have presented at multiple national level meetings including the Alliance for School Health, the American Public Health Association, and the American School Health Association. I currently serve as PI on and Co-PI on two school and adolescent health research projects, and am aware of research and presentation protocol.
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.

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