W alking Movement The Healthy Environments Partnership A communitybased participatory research partnership working to understand and promote heart health in Detroit Detroit Eastside Community Collaborative Detroit Hispanic ID: 514768
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Detroit’s
Walking Movement!Slide2
The Healthy Environments Partnership
A community-based participatory research partnership working to understand and promote heart health in Detroit.
Detroit Eastside Community Collaborative | Detroit Hispanic
Development Corporation | Friends
of Parkside
| Henry
Ford Health
System |
Institute for Population
Health | Eastside Community NetworkUniversity of Michigan School of Public Health | Community Members At-Large Slide3
Walk Your Heart to Health (WYHH) A community-designed intervention
from 2009-2012to increase physical activity and improve heart health in Detroit Slide4
Walk Your Heart to Health (WYHH)
Community and Faith-based organizations
in
Detroit.
Met
3 times per week
for 8 monthSlide5
Study participants received:
Pedometers & weekly printouts of stepsHealth assessments to measure health outcomes (blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose and weight)
Walk Your Heart to Health (WYHH) Slide6
What We Learned
“I loved it! The people in the group and the Community Health Promoters,
we became family
...
Everybody
in my household
walks, I
changed my diet & lost weight. The program should never end…”1. Almost anyone can walk!Slide7
What We Learned
2. Walking groups increase physical activityMean Number of Daily Steps Walked by WYHH ParticipantsSlide8
What We Learned
3. Heart health IMPROVEMENTS
Adjusted High Blood Pressure Prevalence Estimates for WYHH Participants with an Average Increase of 4000 Steps per DaySlide9
How is HEP building a walking movement?Slide10
Capacity Building
Supporting
WAlking
Groups (SWAG)
Capacity building workshops
On
site
coaching/ technical
assistance Slide11
SWAG training is designed to promote leadership & active living through the formation and support of walking groups in Detroit.Available to Detroit residents
Free 12 hour training10 step process to learn how to start a walking group!
Supporting Walking Groups Training (SWAG)Slide12
Objective: Promote walking in Detroit by strengthening individual and organizational capacity to start and sustain walking groups in Detroit
Means:TrainingTechnical assistance Financial supportDetroit! Walk Your Heart to Health (WYHH)Capacity Building Program Slide13
Promoting Walking in Detroit!
Pick Your Path Video Contest
Winners received a
F
itbit activity trackerSlide14
Thank you!
For more information, contact:
Cindy
Gamboa
cegamboa@umich.edu
313- 593-0924
Jacquelyn Coats
coatsj@umich.edu313- 593-0924
www.hepdetroit.orgSlide15