Hearts n’ Parks Community Mobilization Kit (Booklet & Video)

Developed by the NHLBI and the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), this community mobilization guide assists program planners at the community level with implementing a Hearts N’ Parks program. The guide is designed to help local community, park, and recreation agencies promote heart-healthy lifestyle changes such as increased physical activity and heart-healthy eating among children and adults. The guide provides all the necessary tools for implementing Hearts N’ Parks including background information and materials, techniques for creating and delivering heart-healthy activities to partcipants, tools and strategies for reaching targeted groups, forming partnerships, and working with the media, as well as assessment tools to measure program performance. It includes many reproducibles on heart-healthy eating and physical activity to use with different audiences and an 8-minute video of Hearts N’ Parks activities and leaders, showing how Hearts N’ Parks worked for them.

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Item No.: KT-015
Availability: Print (Information about file types)
Format: NHLBI produced publications : Color
Page Count: 240 page booklet 8 minute video
Subject:
Audience: Health Professionals
Language: English

Date of Publication: 2001

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