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Your Health Matters:

Growing Active, Healthy Communities

4: Partners

Partners: Learning Objectives

•Identify potential community partners towork with to create a healthy community.

•Practice techniques to increase confidencein and ability to engage communitypartners and grow healthy communities.

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What is a coalition?

•A coalition is a group of people takingaction together to reach a common goal.

Plan Healthy Texas www.planhealthytexas.org

What coalitions already exist in yourcommunity that are focused on health?

Are community members already a part of these?

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Why would you have a coalition?

•Sets priorities based on multipleperspectives

•Has subcommittees allowing for lots ofwork to be done

•Decisions are shared by more people

•Decisions made in coalitions can reachbroader networks

Diverse Representation

•Coalitions should represent:

–Different neighborhoods

–Cultural groups

–Faith-based organizations

–A mix of ages

–All genders

–All abilities

Active Texas 2020: Taking Action to Improve Health By Promoting Physical Activity.

http://bvopn.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Active-Texas-2020-Exe-Summ.pdf

Diverse partnership makes fordiverse skill sets

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CommunityLeadershipTeam

Health andmedical carecommunities

Schools

And manymore…

Communitymembers

Electedofficials

Faithcommunities

Parks andrecreationdepartments

Transportationdepartments

Localbusinesses,restaurants andworksites

Grocerystores andfoodvendors

Localfarmers

Always Changing

•Coalitions change:

–Depending on the task at hand.

–As priorities change.

–As the project grows.

What Makes a HealthyCommunity?

http://youtu.be/LeJ-Ub7M2sI

Welcome toUnhealthy, Texas USA

Barriers to PhysicalActivity and HealthyEating

Take Action

Our Priority:

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Our Priority:

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Establish Priorities:Important and/orDoable

COMMUNITY INPUT

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What Works

Partners:

•Why is this partner interested in being a part of this coalition?

•What type of power does this partner have in the community?

•How will this partner benefit from participating in thiscoalition?

Who in your own communities would becritical members of a coalition to increasephysical activity and healthy eating?

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What existing groups?

Which individuals?

What organizations?

Partners:Key Point Recap

•Coalitions consist of individuals who have avariety of skills and backgrounds.

•Who should we include?

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•Community members

•Businesses and restaurants

•Faith communities

•Health care

•Decision makers

•Schools

•City and county governments

•Grocery stores and food vendors

•Farmers

10-minute Activity Break

Who are you going to partnerwith?

Examples: transportation,faith-based, school,restaurants

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