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Your Health Matters: Growing Active Communities

Conclusion

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Window of Opportunity

Kingdon, J. Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies. 1995

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Example Leading to a Window of Opportunity

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Recognizing “Windows of Opportunity”

Open Windows• Time to take action

Closed Windows• Keep working on identifying

the problems, finding feasible solutions, and engaging decision maker

Windows open and close frequently

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Apply what you have learned about policy improvements, systems and

environmental changes to your local community

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Bringing Policy, Systems, and Environmental Changes Home

• Think of your community for this final activity.

• Work with others to develop your MY PLAN worksheet!

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MY PLAN worksheet

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Have you seen any of these initiatives in your community?

Which of these examples do you think will work in your community?

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What method of community assessment will you use in your community?

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Who are you going to partner with?

Examples: transportation, faith-based, school

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How will you prioritize issues in your community?

What might make it difficult to prioritize and plan in your community?

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What actions can you take in your community?

Who can share your story and plan with?

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Next steps to accomplish it:

Role of person heading up this

step:

Start and end dates of step:

Measurement of success:

MY Action PLAN!

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Take-Home Learning Activity• Identify two policy improvements, systems or environmental

changes that are currently in place in your community that promote physical activity and identify two policy improvements, systems or environmental changes that should be introduced to further enhance physical activity in your community.

• Talk to a community leader or decision maker about the needed policy improvements, systems and environmental changes to improve physical activity in your community.

Please submit the take-home assignment identifying the various policy improvements, systems and environmental changes you see in your community and outlining your experience meeting with a community leader or decision maker, which will demonstrate completion of the two objectives above.

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Thinking about policy improvements, systems and environmental change to promote physical

activity:• What will you do…

– In the next 7 days?

___________________________________– In the next 30 days?

___________________________________– In the next 60 days?

___________________________________

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Don’t forget…

• This same process can work for creating policy improvements, systems and environmental changes for improved nutrition:– Setting standards for cafeterias or meetings that

include healthy food options and cooking methods (nutrition policy)

– Building farmers market stands or starting a community garden to improve access to fresh fruits and vegetables

– Labeling menus with calorie information in restaurants

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Remember…

• Creating changes in your community is hard work, you may have to talk to TEN different people to find the ONE person who can join you in making that change!

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HOW CONFIDENT ARE YOU?

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On a scale of 0-10, how confident are you that you can reduce obesity in your community by making

policy improvements, systems and environmental changes that increase physical activity?

Not confident at all Very confidentSome what confident

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Knowledge Questionnaire

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THANK YOU!

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