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Creative Community Building While Implementing Diabetes Awareness Programs with Latino populations in Greenville, N

Creative Community Building While Implementing Diabetes Awareness Programs with Latino populations in Greenville, North Carolina. Dr. Luci Fernandes, Dr. Shahna Arps , and Dr. Ricardo Contreras East Carolina University Greenville, NC. Creative Community Building .

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Creative Community Building While Implementing Diabetes Awareness Programs with Latino populations in Greenville, N

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  1. Creative Community Building While Implementing Diabetes Awareness Programs with Latino populations in Greenville, North Carolina Dr. Luci Fernandes, Dr. ShahnaArps, and Dr. Ricardo Contreras East Carolina University Greenville, NC

  2. Creative Community Building • Communities look within at their strengths, assets and resources • Provides tools for deliberately collaborating to shape and create the kind of community in which people want to live, work, and play • Accessible and relevant healthcare is tantamount in creating a vibrant and successful community

  3. Participatory Action Research • It is an ongoing organizational learning process, a research approach that emphasizes co-learning, participation and organizational transformation. (Greenwood et al, 1993) • It [PAR] is about jointly producing knowledge with others to produce critical interpretations and readings of the world, which are accessible, understandable to all those involved and actionable. • (Paul Chatterton, Duncan Fuller & Paul Routledge, 2007)

  4. Goals of the Research • Design diet and exercise programs that are straightforward to follow and that are culturally appropriate • Bridging the University community and the local community • Building alliances that are mutually beneficial

  5. Goals of the Research • Implement attainable lifestyle changes • Works within the structure of daily schedule • Community support system

  6. The role of women in Latino society • Women cook and are care givers • Shop for family groceries • Organize the schedule in the household • Treat the family when they are ill

  7. Experiential Education • Experiential education is learning activities that engage the learner directly in the phenomena being studied, with systematic and ongoing reflection and integration (Christopher Ross).

  8. Diabetes Prevention • Lifestyle (changes in diet and exercise) • Culturally Competent (coincides with values and beliefs of the Hispanic population) • Familiarity (something that feels like home) • Minimize stress

  9. Study Methods • AMEXCAN (Asociación de Mexicanos en Carolina del Norte) which has developed a diabetes awareness program in Pitt County, NC • Focus groups • Adults, range of ages, from different regions of Mexico • Interviews • In both local churches (n=11) and community centers (n=12) in and around Greenville

  10. Exercise Program • Through the assistance of students at ECU (Dance Majors and members of S.A.L.S.A.) • Participants wanted dance classes using Latin styles of music and dance – include their children • Design an exercise program • Cultural relevance and familiarity

  11. To Dance or Not To Dance! • Not all groups felt comfortable with dancing • One program does not fit for all people in the Latino community • Find alternatives that are appropriate

  12. “El Día Del Campo” • Walking Groups • Soccer • Develop and reinforce social networks

  13. Eating Healthy and Recipes • All participants stated that they ate healthier in Mexico • New recipes/New ideas for cooking • Share and exchange • Cooking ideas for their children

  14. Other Interests Community Gardens: One woman has a garden. She plants Tomatoes, squash/pumpkin, chiles, garlic, cilantro Making handicrafts: Future: could be something where we can partner with “Emerge”.

  15. Community Action • Community projects that are designed with participants are more readily adopted and successful overall • Community members are part of the design and decision making process at all levels • Somebody within the community will be in charge of making sure that it is ongoing

  16. Discussion • Aware of a more sedentary lifestyle and high fat diet in the US • Expressed desire to create a dance class, walking group, and a “soccer day” where adults and children can participate • Recipes and cooking tips, using both American style foods and Latino dishes • Additional activities: Gardening and Crafting

  17. Conclusion • Implementation of culturally appropriate strategies: • Dance/exercise programs • Train exercise instructors within the community • Connect with ECU students /faculty • Healthy Cooking/Eating (Including: recipe exchange, (booklet, listserv, recipe contest) • “Soccer Day” • Walking Groups

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