NWCPHP NWCPHP Summer Institute Summer Institute August 3, 2015August 3, 2015

1

Coalition Steering Committee

Early-win, Proof-of-principle Initiatives

Palliative Care InitiativeYouth Activity Initiative

Vision

Snohomish County is a vibrant and healthy community recognized for its leadership in making our youth among the most active in the nation.

4

Strategic Objectives

What This Initiative Aims to Deliver

Grade 5 Grade 6

Current path

Desired results

Gear Up & Go!

Our Aim

To reverse the decline of youth activity levels starting with our own local

fifth grade students.

Our “Three Legged Stool”

• Increase Snohomish County 5th grade activity levels relative to 2014 projections

• Gain and rapidly share insights into what influences movement

• Create a catalyst and new assets for sustaining private/public sector collaboration compared to projected HYS

Increase activity levels of 10,000 5th

graders

Nation’s 1st online, real-time physical activity map

Identify successes &

barriers to youth activity

Recommend key priorities

for 2014+

Foster public/private collaboration

Create sustainable

model to scale & extend results

Change the conversation:

create a community culture of

health

Strategic Objectives

How did we prepare?

• Partnered with Sqord and the YMCA

• Working Group

• Micropilot PE Teacher tested PE Teacher recommendations PE Teacher approved! Kid tested and approved!

10

Partnering Organizations

Sqord

Sqord Components

Is it syncing?!?

New status bar shows progress towards successful sync

14

The App

Easier navigation & multi-sync display!

New icons and stack display for multiple syncing

15

Admin Portal

Update passwords, add/remove pod IDs from player profile

Who’s Who?

16

3 Phase DesignINTRODUCE it UNDERSTAND it IMPROVE it

Accomplishments: By the Numbers

10,300 students and faculty registered

100 participating schools

School district participation

Users/ Week

17 IT professionals trained

9 teacher trainings and webinars

365 new Snohomish County YMCA memberships

41 community SyncStations countywide

18

What have we learned so far?

• Does greater engagement in the program lead to more physical activity?

• Is the level of engagement maintained over time? • Is there an impact on overall (school/district/county)

physical activity levels?

19

• Group Health Center for Community Health & Evaluation (CCHE) – Sqord Data

• NWCPHP- Surveys, KII and Focus Groups

Evaluation Team

End of Year 2- What do we know?

21

EVALUATION Results- SQORD DATA•HYS shows slight increase in physical activity•Gear Up & Go! students daily activity 10% higher•Association between frequency of syncing and activity levels.•Individual students that engaged more often also had higher hourly activity levels

HYS

2014 Healthy Youth Survey Addendum

•Participation N % %>7 days %>5 days Mean days

•Did not participate 910 25% 24% 54% 4.40

•Not regularly 265 7% 25% 58% 4.59

•Regularly then stopped 1231 33% 25% 60% 4.73

•Regularly all year 1297 35% 35% 68% 5.13

• Greater engagement in the program is associated with higher levels of activity, and that effect may persist beyond the year of participation

• Schools were able to promote greater engagement over time – more participation and involvement in 2014-2015 than in the previous academic year

•  

Evaluation Results- Sqord Data

• Top Quartile Identified and interviewed + surveys

Top Quartile Teacher Characteristics• 50% of top quartile teachers had Master’s degrees/ 50% had

Bachelor’s degrees• 75% had more than 10 years teaching experience• Half work in a rural community and half in an urban environment• 53% of teachers taught more than 6 classes a week

Evaluation Results- Surveys and KII

Best PracticesSURVEYS + KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEW OF TOP QUARTILE GROUP = 5

COMMON BEST PRACTICES THAT DRIVE ACTIVITY IN SNOHOMISH COUNTY:

1. School-wide support of physical activity

2. Model behavior by encouraging physical activity among staff

3. School-wide program visibility

4. Use engaging and creative motivation strategies

5. Leverage synergy with existing physical activity programs

• NWCPHP created a Field Guide to use as resource tool to help address year 3 in goal setting.

• Students found program engaging and useful.

• 4th graders look forward to 5th grade to become part of GUGO!

Field Guide + Student Focus Group

• Goal setting

• Sustainability

• More parental involvement

• Financial sustainability

• Teacher creativity

YEAR 3 and beyond

Youth Activity Initiative