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WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
C H P PEmpowers
Communities
COMMUNITY
HEALTH
PARTICIPATORY
PLANNINGBill Reger-Nash, EdD
Holli Smith, MS, MSW, CHES
Linda Cooper, MSW, LCSW
Linda Holmstrand, MPA
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION1st International Conference on Health Promotion
November 21, 1986Ottawa, CANADA
OTTAWA CHARTER FOR HEALTH PROMOTION“Health promotion is the process of enabling
people to increase control over, and to improve, their health…People cannot achieve their fullest health potential unless they are able to take control of those things which determine their health.”
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
One of the most significant challenges in community health is how to assist communities in making meaningful
and significant changes.
Most change programs focus on individuals. Sustainable change occurs only when an empower community affects policy and environment change.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
TO ADDRESS IMPORTANT HEALTH PROBLEMS:
A community must learn how to make change happen
and then do it.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
Premise of Community Health
Participatory Planning
•The more ownership within a community,
the more likely a program will be effective.
Richardson and Bensley, 1991; Glasglow, et al., 1993; Purdey, Adhikari, Robinson, and Cox, 1994.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
Community Health Participatory Planning
capitalizes on the resources, sophistication, and diversity of a community.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
Community Health Participatory Planning
teaches program developers how to HELP communities:
identify their problems, set their goals, mobilize their resources, and
develop their own strategies for achieving their goals. Minkler and Cox, 1980, Glanz, 1997.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
Involvement of local community members
is essential for:
•Effective community-based public health interventions
•Essential policy and environmental changes to support behavior change
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
What is “COMMUNITY” ?
1. A geographic area with boundaries and usually a name, e.g., Sutton, Pine Grove, Blacksville.
2. Individuals with shared characteristics, interests, goal(s), values, sense of identity, norms, and/or communication. Functional definition.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
CHPP builds
FUNCTIONAL “COMMUNITY”
Individuals with shared characteristics, interests, goal(s), values,sense of identity, norms, and/or
communication.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
NEVER underestimate what a small group of dedicated folks CAN DO !
(a functional community)
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
Specifically, Community Health Participatory Planninginvolves local community members in:
•defining, learning first-hand
and •cooperatively addressing local health problems
and•having FUN in the process.
Used in 5 interventions, to date, and now an integral part of all our interventions.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
[ PUT MANUAL SLIDE HERE ]
Our CHPP Training Manual explains and details the step-by-step process for utilizing CHPP in local communities.
To receive a copy, contact Bill at: [email protected]
Harvard Forum June 11, 2003
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
Community Health Participatory Planning’s
4 PHASES1. Commence with 1-3 individuals interested in the specific
topic to recruit others, plan the sessions, see to details.
2. Establish a diverse-sector steering committee—public, private sectors, local gov. officials, businesses, schools, seniors, minorities, community-at-large, etc.
3. Conduct weekly sessions--10-12, one hour only in length.
4. From participants, establish an on-going community advisory board to do the hard work; achieve goals.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
In the Community Health Participation Planning process
participants’ experience firsthand
personal, societal, policy, and environmental
barriers to living a healthy lifestyle
while addressing the health needs of their
own community environment.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
This FIRSTHAND experience
is achieved through participants’
simultaneous involvement
in three types of structured experiences
over a 10-12 week period:
INFORMATIONAL EXPERIENTIAL ACTION / TASK FORCES
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
INFORMATIONWhat IS wellness?
What does it take to be healthy?
•What should I eat? How much? When?
•How much physical activity? When? How often?
•What’s stress got to do with it?
•Am I addicted to …?
•What about this community is helpful? Not helpful?
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• Personal health screening
• Healthy eating
• Physical activity
• Stress reduction
• The essence of spirituality/ connectedness
• Social support
EXPERIENTIAL- actually experiencing what wellness involves
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
ACTION / TASK FORCESAnalyze information and make specific
recommendations for addressing the problem in the local community
•Nutrition ·Policy change
•Physical activity ·Organizational Structure
•Stress reduction ·Funding
•Mental /emotional care ·Other
•Addictive behaviors
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
• Sessions 1,2,3,4,5 -Wellness information
• Sessions 6,7,8, - Needs/Issues defined
• Sessions 9,10/12 - Planning/recommendations
Outline of Sessions
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Following the 10-12 weekly sessions:
•Some or all of the
TASK FORCEs
continue to work.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
Through their work and success, they TRANSFORM themselves into recognized local groupsand organizations.
Official
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•and
they address
critical
POLICY and ENVIRONMENT
issues in the community
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
Physical activity patterns in communities are positively influenced by increasing access to safe walking trails and bike paths, convenient exercise clubs, sidewalks with well-marked street crossings, enjoyable scenery, observation of others exercising, having others with whom to walk, and limiting vehicular traffic.
King, Jeffery, Fridinger, et al., 1995; Linenger, Chesson, Nice. 1991; Brownson, Housemann Brown, et al.
2000; Brownson, Baker, Houseman, Brennan, Bacak. 2001.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
So, in the POLICY and ENVIRONMENT arena, there is much to achieve:
Ѣ in our communities
Ѣ in our state
Ѣ in our nation.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
Following WHEELING WALKS, the Community Health Participatory Planning
group in Wheeling
became the city mayor-sanctioned
WALKABLE WHEELING TASK FORCE
.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
Today, theWALKABLE WHEELING TASK FORCEcontinues to work:
• with local clubs to develop walking opportunities like o Upgrading and connecting local trails
o Adding rest rooms and telephones
o Improving overall safety & aesthetics
o Planning for an urban state park
• with local schools to expand youth physical activity
• University engineering team
to develop walkable community plan
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
Community Health Participatory Planning
helps
it
happen.
WHEELING WALKS COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTICIPATION PLANNING
C H P PEMPOWERING COMMUNITIES
TO HELPCHANGE HAPPEN
To receive a copy of the
Community Health Participatory Planning Training Manual, contact Bill at: