CHANGE Tool Presentation

CHANGE TOOL 2013

BORAH QUADRANT

Purpose

Identify community strengths and areas for improvement.

Identify and understand the status of community health needs.

Define improvement areas to guide the community towards population-based strategies that create a healthier environment (e.g., increased physical activity, improved nutrition, reduced tobacco use and exposure, and chronic disease management).

Assist with prioritizing community needs and consider appropriate allocation of available resources.

Process

Contact agencies from each sector

Schedule interviews

Complete surveys

Evaluate results

Compile learned information

Five Sectors

1. Community at Large Boise Parks and Recreation

Planning and Development Services

2. Health Care St. Alphonsus Federal Way Clinic

Genesis World Mission

Garden City Community Clinic

3. Community Organizations United Way

Morris Hill Neighborhood Association

Southminster Presbyterian Church

Sojourn Church

Whitney United Methodist Church

Five Sectors Cont.

4. Worksites

Intermountain Gas

International Minute Press

Vista Travel

Lee Pesky Learning Center

5. Schools

Borah High School

South Junior High School

Jefferson Elementary School

Hawthorne Elementary School

Whitney Elementary School

Grace Jordan Elementary School

Successes

Contacting all agencies in each sector

Scheduling interviews

Successfully completing surveys

Challenges

Scheduling interviews

Finding people to interview

Getting accurate data

Data

Community at Large

Physical Activity (P,

E)

Leadership (P, E)

Tobacco (P, E)

Nutrition (P, E)

Chronic Disease

Management (P)

Assets Needs

Health Care

Assets Needs

Tobacco (P,E)

Leadership (P,E)

Chronic Disease

Management

(P,E)

Physical Activity (P,

E)

Nutrition (E)

Community Organizations

Assets Needs

Tobacco (P,E)

Nutrition (P,E)

Physical Activity

(P,E)

Chronic Disease

Management (P, E)

Leadership (P,E)

Worksites

Assets Needs

Nutrition (E)

Tobacco (E)

Chronic Disease

Management (P,E)

Physical Activity

(P,E)

Leadership (P,E)

Schools

Assets Needs

Nutrition (P,E)

Chronic Disease Management (P,E)

Tobacco (P,E)

Physical Activity (P,E)

Leadership (P,E)

Recommendations

Community at Large

Short Term Long Term

Provide classes

on preventative

strategies Classes on healthy

cooking and the

benefits vs. dining

out.

Develop a policy

to ban trans fat

at restaurants

Community at Large

Short Term Long Term

Promote the

purchase of

fruits and

veggies at local

restaurants and

food venues

Develop a policy

to connect

locally grown

foods to local

restaurant and

food venues

Health Care

Short Term Long Term

Provide free or

low cost

nutritional

programs and

weight

management

programs

Bring in vending

machines with

healthier food

and beverage

options

Health Care

Short Term Long Term

Assess patients

physical activity

as a part of a

written checklist

or screening

used on all

routine office

visits

Provide regular

counseling

about the health

value of physical

activity during all

routine office

visits

Community Organizations

Short Term Long Term

Have members

of the

organization fill

out a survey,

asking what

would motivate

them to be more

active

Using the

results,

implement the

activities into an

incentive

program

Community Organization

Short Term Long Term

Contact different hospitals or organizations who could come to the facility to do specific screening, counseling, and educational classes

Having these

hospitals

continue to

provide follow-

up screening,

preventative

measures

Work Sites

Short Term Long Term

Perform routine

screenings on

their employees,

i.e. skin

screenings

blood pressure,

and

mammograms

Create a self

management

program that

educates the

employees about

the risks and

preventative

measures of

chronic illnesses

Work Sites

Short Term Long Term

Groups in the

workplace that are

centered around

encouraging each other

to be more physically

active

Group discussions on

how to be more

physically active

establishing the

physical needs of the

employees

creating a physical

activity "package" that

the employees could

take advantage.

i.e. paid gym

membership, or

employee organized

physical activities/club

sports

Schools

Short Term Long Term

Create a walk/bike

to school week

where the schools

encourage students

to walk to school by

rewarding prizes

etc. and get the

teachers and

parents involved

Create safer

walking routes to

school, and make

sure all the

sidewalks are

connected so that

students can walk

to school

Continue the “walk

to school week” as

an annual event

Action Plans

Community At Large

Schools

Next Steps

Thank YouTommy Baker

Nathan Diehl

Carly Doud

Kaitlan Ducken

Tyler Jordan

Sarah Stoppenhagen

Katie Valinske

Elysa Villanueva

Questions?