building health from the ground up …. march 6, 2009
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The Chronic Disease Prevention Initiative (CDPI)
Designed to address the common modifiable risk factors :▪ Support people to live smoke free ▪ Encourage healthy eating ▪ Promote active living
…through local actions, evidence informed approaches and
the creation of supportive environments for healthy lifestyle
choices and behaviours.
Community Leading the Journey
• Local • Planning committees and champions• Community engages volunteers • Community health information collection and effective
use in building supports for healthy living • Action plans with per capita funding
• Starting where community is at and address barriers to participation
• Find and match community needs with resources
• Community pride & “yes-we-can” attitude
Community Leading The Journey
• 83 communities in all participating regional health authorities including 21 First Nations and 7 Métis communities
• For example: • Train the Trainers – growing community
expertise• Making it easy for people to connect e.g. “Where
to get active” directory• Power of community success
Training Coordination
• CDPI Training committee • Regional representation to guide provincial
action • Strong & diverse skill sets
• Coordination with regional training plans • Create a “multiplier effect”
Training Coordination
Principles of working together • Building on community & regional knowledge &
successes• Linking – learning – sharing• Engage – educate – equip – enable – encourage• Supporting the stage for success at many levels • Learn why it worked or why not
Healthy Together Now
• “Healthy Together Now” • Package of communication tools & resources
for communities & regions to use • Putting the face on CDPI & action for
prevention
• Let’s take a look….
Healthy Together Now
• Presentations to schools, boards, community groups
• Partners meetings
• Groups of expertise e.g. Planning Network, Recreation Connections
• Funders, RHA boards & executive management teams
Learnings
• Make it easy for all to use
• Plain language is best
• Power of stories • Give the voice to change & real action at
community level• Provide respect for the work volunteers do • Convey the wisdom of experience, lay
knowledge
Learnings
• Stories help us focus on: • The right problems• Most appropriate solutions – question not do
they work but how are they experienced• valuable insight to programs/services
Contact information Betty Kozak Provincial Coordinator Chronic Disease Prevention Initiative
Box 12 40, 485 Hospital St. Neepawa, Manitoba R0J 1H0 (204) 476-7843 or (204) 476-0467 (cell) [email protected]