Transcript Slide 1
Building health from the
ground up ….
March 6, 2009
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.
CDPI
Community led
Regionally coordinated
Government supported
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
Questions ??
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]