This online toolkit provides resources for community health workers to implement the Healthy Heart, Healthy Family in Filipino communities and other resources for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander communities.
Filipino American
Healthy Heart, Healthy Family: A Community Health Worker’s Manual for the Filipino Community
This 12-session course on heart health created for the Filipino community includes interactive activities and handouts translated into English and Tagalog.
Healthy Heart, Healthy Family: Picture Cards for Community Health Workers
These illustrated pages are an excellent teaching tool to help reinforce key heart health prevention messages within the Healthy Heart, Healthy Family manual. It is designed to be used with the community health worker manual; but can also be used alone for presentations on heart health in the community.
Additional Filipino Heart Health Materials
Share these materials with your Filipino community as supplementary take home resources.
Vietnamese
Activity Guide
This activity guide is designed for community health educators to organize discussion-based activities for adults and seniors to increase awareness of heart disease through a strategic public health model.
Additional Vietnamese Heart Health Materials
These Vietnamese Aspire for Healthy Hearts tip sheets are translated into Vietnamese and English. Each tip sheet provides information about heart disease risk factors and ways you can help lower your risk for developing heart disease.
Supplemental Resources
These resources may be helpful to supplement the sessions you are teaching:
- Taking Care of Our Hearts Together in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Communities Fact Sheet
- Heart Smart Basics: What to Know to Keep Yours Healthy Fact Sheet
- Self-Measured Blood Pressure Fact Sheet
- Are You at a Healthy Weight? Fact Sheet
- Cholesterol & Your Heart: What You Need to Know Fact Sheet
- Move More Fact Sheet
- Know the Difference Fact Sheet
- DASH Eating Plan
- Taking Care of our Hearts, Together Fact Sheet
- Find more resources
Additional Resources
Asian Americans/Native Hawaiians/Other Pacific Islanders are disproportionately affected by other diseases as well. You may find these additional resources helpful in your outreach.