This online toolkit provides everything needed to conduct training for Community Health Workers, implement With Every Heartbeat Is Life in the community, and promote it.
With Every Heartbeat Is Life: A Community Health Worker’s Manual on Heart Disease for African Americans
This 12-session course on heart health created for the African American community includes interactive activities and handouts.
With Every Heartbeat Is Life: Picture Cards for Community Health Workers
Use this PowerPoint presentation or flipchart to help reinforce key heart health messages within the With Every Heartbeat Is Life manual. They are designed to be used with the manual, but can also be used alone for presentations in the community.
On the Move to Better Heart Health for African Americans Booklet
This booklet created specifically for African Americans explains what heart disease is and provides helpful tips to improve heart health. Topics include heart disease risk factors, heart attack signs, physical activity, blood pressure, cholesterol, healthy weight, diabetes, and tobacco use.
Heart-Healthy Home Cooking African American Style Recipe Book
This recipe book provides recipes for 26 tested and tasty favorite African American dishes and gives nutrient analyses that include carbohydrates and protein. The recipe book also covers heart-healthy food substitutions and food safety.
Promote With Every Heartbeat is Life
Use these materials to promote the With Every Heartbeat Is Life sessions to your community.
Supplemental Resources
These resources may be helpful to supplement the sessions you are teaching:
- Taking Care of Our Hearts Together in the African American 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
- The TRUTH About African American Women and Heart Disease Fact Sheet
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Additional Resources
African Americans are disproportionately affected by other diseases as well. You may find these additional resources helpful in your outreach.