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Site Specific Community Resource: Footprints to Health Intervention

Listed below are information and references to address physical activity and nutrition in specific sites or settings within the community setting.

Footprints to Health was an initiative that began when the Wisconsin Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (NPAO) Program awarded a grant to the Healthy Eating, Active Living (HEAL) Coalition of Marathon County. The initiative was designed to create a local intervention that might be transferable to other communities. The NPAO Program wants to recognize and thank the HEAL Coalition for their efforts in implementing this challenging initiative.

The grant provided the HEAL coalition with technical assistance and funds to try and change behavior in a neighborhood setting for the period of 2006 to 2008. The idea was to change policies and environmental factors in the neighborhood surrounding the Franklin Elementary School, as well as modify or enact program activities in the neighborhood as a whole in order to change physical activity and nutrition habits for residents living in the neighborhood. The resources listed below are the result of the initiative.

Resources from the Footprints to Health Initiative

Executive Summary (PDF 47 KB) - A four page summary of the activities and outcomes from the three-year initiative.

Full Report (PDF 84 KB) - A more detailed, nine page report of the three-year initiative.

Final Survey Report (PDF 371 KB) - A summary report of the results from the pre, mid-point and post survey results of neighborhood participants in the Footprints to Health intervention.

Case Studies - Two case studies were developed from the initiative. One case study is a write-up on Intervention Planning using the Socio-Ecological Model (PDF 93 KB) and the other describes How the Coalition has Become Involved with Transportation Planning for a More Active Community Environment (PDF 42 KB).

Materials - Products and materials generated from the Footprints can be found below:

Recipes

Summary of 15 Objectives from the Initiative (PDF 232 KB) - One or two page summaries were written up for each of the 15 objectives. Use the "bookmarks" tab on the left side of the pdf file to navigate quickly to each objective. The summaries describe:

The objective and it’s focus

The activities related to the objective

The partners and their roles

A description of what worked well

A description of what could have been done differently

A description of challenges or barriers

The evaluation methods and outcomes

Any associated comments or notes

Tools/materials used or developed

The 15 objectives were:

Objective 1 - Fruit & Vegetable Educational Messages

Objective 2 - Family Meal Messages

Objective 3 - Family Meal Planning Trainings

Objective 4 - Media Campaign: Family Meals

Objective 5 - Stores: Environmental Change

Objective 6 - Restaurants: Environmental Change

Objective 7 - Farmers Market Utilization

Objective 8 - Organizational Policy on Healthy Eating

Objective 9 - Physical Activity Resource Guide

Objective 10 - Neighborhood Walking Challenge

Objective 11 - Media Campaign: Physical Activity

Objective 12 - Neighborhood Environmental Change

Objective 13 - Mapping of Nearby Destinations

Objective 14 - Neighborhood Walking Routes

Objective 15 - Access to Physical Activity Facilities