This online toolkit provides everything community health representatives and community health workers need to implement Honoring the Gift of Heart Health in their communities or to train others to use it.
Honoring the Gift of Heart Health: A Heart Health Educator’s Manual on Heart Disease
This 10-session course on heart health created for the American Indian/Alaska Native community includes interactive activities and handouts.
Honoring the Gift of Heart Health Visuals and Handouts
These 48 full-color illustrated cards are based on the Honoring the Gift of Heart Health manuals. They are designed to be used with the heart health educator’s manual; but can also be used alone for presentations on heart health in the community.
Additional Heart Health Materials
Share these materials with your American Indian/Alaska Native community as supplementary take home resources.
Supplemental Resources
These resources may be helpful to supplement the sessions you are teaching:
- Taking Care of Our Hearts Together in the American Indian/Alaska Native Community 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
American Indians/Alaska Natives are disproportionately affected by other diseases as well. You may find these additional resources helpful in your outreach.