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.
Download the individual With Every Heartbeat Is Life sessions here.
With Every Heartbeat Is Life: Picture Cards for Community Health Workers
This slide presentation (also available as a flipchart) with illustrated pages is an excellent teaching tool to help reinforce key heart health prevention messages within the With Every Heartbeat Is Life 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.
Promotional Materials
Use these materials to promote the With Every Heartbeat Is Life sessions to your community.
Template Emails (Downloadable file)
Sample Newsletter Drop-In Article/Blog Post (Downloadable file)
Additional Heart Health Materials
Share these materials with your African American community as supplementary take home resources.
Heart-Healthy Home Cooking African American Style Recipe Book
Additional Complementary Resources
These additional resources may be helpful to complement the sessions you are teaching:
- 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
- Find more resources
Additional information and other resources from The Heart Truth® can be found on the community health workers page.
African Americans are disproportionately affected by other diseases as well. You may find these additional resources helpful in your outreach.
- Sickle Cell Disease Resources
- What Is Sarcoidosis? Fact Sheet
- Asthma in the Black Community Fact Sheet
- Asthma in Our Communities Infographic
- Facts About Peripheral Artery Disease (P.A.D.) for African Americans Fact Sheet