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Strengthening community action teams to address youth obesity in Virginia through policy, systems, and environmental change, based on equity-oriented frameworks and promising practices.
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Pre-Proposal Conference: Healthy Communities Action Teams RFP #852P021
2017 Statewide Virginia Youth Survey Results • High School and Middle School 2017 Regional Virginia Youth Survey Results • Central • North • Northwest • Southeast • Southwest • Some local school districts have oversampled http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/virginia-youth-survey/data-tables/ Virginia Youth Data Resource
Programs Vs. Policy, Systems and Environmental Change
Equity-Oriented Framework for Obesity Prevention __________ Addressing youth obesity prevention within community context Kumanyika, S. 2017, National Academy of Medicine
BUILD COMMUNITY CAPACITY Empower communities Form strategic partnerships Support entrepreneurship Create behavior change, knowledge and skills Promote healthy behavior INCREASE HEALTHY OPTIONS Increase food & retail provision Implement school and worksite activities Improve the built environment Improve access to parks and recreation Increase accessible transportation VFHY's Promising Practices to Reduce and Prevent Childhood Obesity ELIMINATE BARRIERS TO HEALTH BEHAVIORS Reduce the promotion of unhealthy products Reduce the higher costs of healthy foods Increase access to affordable, healthy foods IMPROVE SOCIAL & ECONOMIC RESOURCES Establish anti-hunger programs Provide education Increase opportunities for education and job training
Loudoun Pediatric Obesity Coalition It’s Water Time! Researched water access in schools first and put together an informative toolkit on water access to share with stakeholders. This led to team being approached by Head Start leadership with the request that they design and bring a water program into their classrooms. The program is called “It’s Water Time”. The team helped Head Start completely eliminate juice in their classrooms. The coalition supplied reusable water bottles to all of the participating students. See the video HERE.
Proposal Summary • Project Name: Name of the HCAT/project • Project Description: Brief synopsis of program plan • Amount Requested: Total requested for 3 years • Geographic Region: Drop Down Menu: North, Central, Southeast, Southwest • (Wrong region? Start again.) Proposal Instructions:General Requirements(Page 7)
Offeror’s History: Provide a brief overview of the proposed HCAT including an overview of partner or umbrella organizations and previous projects and accomplishments for existing HCATs. • Group Membership: Identify all partnering organizations, individuals and members of the HCAT. Describe their contributions and responsibilities. HCAT’s are required to have a minimum of 5 partners. At least one member must be from the community. Signed Partner Profile Agreements must be uploaded when answering this question. I. Offeror’s Background and Description
Offeror’s Background and Description (Continued) • Previous Program Experience: Identify efforts of the HCAT or group with health initiatives that demonstrate its abilities to understand and adequately address childhood obesity prevention activities. Describe previous programs with outcome information.
Objectives • Statements describing the results to be achieved, and the manner in which they will be achieved. You may need multiple objectives to address a single goal. • Offerors must build their own measurable objective(s) around an activity(s) suggested from the Promising Practices. GOAL: Provided on VFHY Workplan Form To prevent and reduce childhood obesity in Virginia.
Attributes of SMART objectives: Specific: includes the “who”, “what”, and “where”. Use only one action verb to avoid issues with measuring success. Measurable: focuses on “how much” change is expected. Achievable: realistic given program resources and planned implementation. Relevant: relates directly to program/activity goals. Time-bound: focuses on “when” the objective will be achieved. RESOURCES: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/evaluation/pdf/brief3b.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/tutorials/writinggoal/page001.htm
Objectives can be PROCESS or OUTCOME Process objectives describe the activities/services/strategies that will be delivered as part of conducting the project. Example of a SMART process objective: By June 30, 2021 (time bound), Fabulous HCAT will develop and finalize one (measurable and achievable) Strategic Plan (specific and relevant) to guide the future efforts of the HCAT.
Objectives can be PROCESS or OUTCOME Outcome objectives describe the targeted outcomes expected from the activities/services/strategies that will be delivered as part of conducting the project. Example of a SMART outcome objective: By June 30, 2021 (time bound), Fabulous HCAT will partner with ABC childcare center to increase preschoolers' weekly fruit and vegetable consumption (specific & relevant) by 20% (measurable) through the Tasting Tuesday initiative.
Required Workplan Strategies • Must include statewide and local evaluation activities. • Include public relations strategies (i.e.: press release announcing the grant award). • Include legislative outreach strategies including identifying legislators, completing a legislative contact form, and sending emails/letters. (September & January)
For HCATs, sustainability includes the broader view of institutionalizing policies and practices within communities and organizations to ensure long term outcomes that will maintain large scale change. • It refers to sustaining the HCAT and its efforts as well as sustaining the policy, systems and environmental changes it supports. Sustainability Plan (Page 12)
