Family, School, and Community
GROW Healthy Kids & Communities supports families of rural places to survey and improve their family home nutrition and physical activity environments. GROW HKC supports Oregon rural families’ abilities to make healthy eating and physical activity behaviors at home easy and sustainable.
Families with children attending our partnered Oregon elementary schools in Bonanza, Chiloquin, Clatskanie, Estacada, Molalla and Rainier were invited to join GROW Healthy Kids and Communities. Children in grades K-5/6 and their parents, guardians or caregivers participated in project programming to help families and children learn to eat, grow, and play healthfully.
Family Surveys
Family Physical Activity Measurement
Families had an opportunity to measure their physical activity using accelerometers.
Self Assessment Feedback
These reports helped families understand their family level behaviors and family-home characteristics, that relate to child-level health.
Family Feedback
Physical Activity Feedback
This report provided families with objective data that shows how active children are throughout the day. View an example »
Self Assessment Feedback
These reports helped families understand their family level behaviors and family-home characteristics, that relate to child-level health.
Family Benefits
Healthy Family/Active Family Nutrition and Physical Activity Newsletters
A monthly newsletter that was directed toward supporting healthy home environmental and behavioral changes related to healthy eating, and physical activity.
Family focus groups to inform policy and practice
Taught the researchers about what works in families and what challenges are faced and how to help support other rural families.
GROW Healthy Kids & Communities helped schools survey and improve school nutrition and physical activity environments. GROW HKC supports evidence-based modifications to school environments and policies to promote and improve students’ healthy eating and physical activity behaviors at school.
School Surveys
School Physical Activity & Nutrition Environment Tool (SPAN-ET)
GROW surveyed school-level physical activity and nutrition environments.
Height, weight, and physical activity collection
GROW helped enrolled schools measure the height, weight, and physical activity of students to understand change in health status over time.
School Feedback
SPAN-ET Feedback
The SPAN-ET report suggests evidence-based improvement strategies and highlights positive actions resulting from environmentally-based treatments.
Weight Status and Physical Activity Feedback
These reports show the results of school-level assessments and suggest evidence-based improvement sand communication strategies.
School Action
- GROW-HKC and wellness committee actions
- Farm to school partnerships
- Physical activity toolkits and trainings
- Securing school-centered grants to promote healthy school environments
GROW Healthy Kids & Communities engaged with Oregon’s rural residents and stakeholders to learn about rural communities and to help select and implement evidence-based environmental strategies unique to Oregon’s rural areas that will benefit Oregon’s rural residents for years to come.
Community Surveys
HEAL MAPPS™
HEAL MAPPS™ helps community stakeholders document people’s experience of place with respect to supports and barriers for regular healthy eating and physical activity
Community Food and Physical Activity Environment Survey
This tool assesses the actual (vs. perceived) rural community food & physical activity resources.
Community Feedback
HEAL MAPPS™ Feedback
This report details the community supports and barriers to healthy eating and physical activity.
Community Food and Physical Activity Environment Survey Feedback
This report analyzes all community food and physical activity resources
Community Action
- Building coalitions to work collaboratively on community-wide issues
- Securing local grants to improve healthy eating and physical activity opportunities in rural communities
- Working collaboratively to implement community-based change