This online toolkit provides everything promotores de salud and community health workers need to implement Your Heart, Your Life in their communities or to train others to use it.
Your Heart, Your Life: A Promotores de Salud Manual on Heart Disease for Hispanics/Latinos
This 12-session course on heart health created for the Hispanic/Latino community includes interactive activities and handouts. It is available in English or Spanish.
Your Heart, Your Life - Picture Cards for Promotores de Salud / Su corazón - Cartas ilustradas para promotores de salud
These picture cards are an excellent teaching tool to help reinforce key heart health prevention messages within the Your Heart, Your Life manual. They are designed to be used with the community health worker manual; but can also be used alone for presentations on heart health in the community. Each page is translated in English and Spanish.
Promises for Healthy Hearts: How Hispanics/Latinos Can Prevent Heart Disease Booklet
This booklet explains what heart disease is and provides helpful tips to improve one’s health. Sections of the booklet include risk factors, heart attack signs, physical activity, blood pressure, cholesterol, healthy weight, diabetes, and tobacco use. Available in English or Spanish.
Delicious Heart-Healthy Latino Recipes Book – Platillos latinos ¡sabrosos y saludables!
Share these heart-healthy bilingual recipes for appetizers and soups, entrees, side dishes, vegetarian recipes, desserts, and beverages with your community. The recipe book also includes tips for safe cooking, eating on a budget, and more.
Promote Your Heart, Your Life
Use these materials to promote Your Heart, Your 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 Hispanic/Latino 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
- The TRUTH About Hispanic/Latina Women and Heart Disease Fact Sheet
- Hoja informativa: La VERDAD sobre las mujeres hispanas/latinas y las enfermedades cardíacas
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Additional Resources
Hispanics/Latinos are disproportionately affected by other diseases as well. You may find these additional resources helpful in your outreach.
- Sickle Cell Disease Resources
- Asthma in the Hispanic/Latino Community Fact Sheet (English and Spanish)
- Asthma in Our Communities Infographic
- Facts About Peripheral Artery Disease (P.A.D.) for Hispanics/Latinos (English and Spanish)