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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.
Families had an opportunity to measure their physical activity using accelerometers.
These reports helped families understand their family level behaviors and family-home characteristics, that relate to child-level health.
This report provided families with objective data that shows how active children are throughout the day. View an example »
These reports helped families understand their family level behaviors and family-home characteristics, that relate to child-level health.
A monthly newsletter that was directed toward supporting healthy home environmental and behavioral changes related to healthy eating, and physical activity.
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.
GROW surveyed school-level physical activity and nutrition environments.
GROW helped enrolled schools measure the height, weight, and physical activity of students to understand change in health status over time.
The SPAN-ET report suggests evidence-based improvement strategies and highlights positive actions resulting from environmentally-based treatments.
These reports show the results of school-level assessments and suggest evidence-based improvement sand communication strategies.
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.
HEAL MAPPS™ helps community stakeholders document people’s experience of place with respect to supports and barriers for regular healthy eating and physical activity
This tool assesses the actual (vs. perceived) rural community food & physical activity resources.
This report details the community supports and barriers to healthy eating and physical activity.
This report analyzes all community food and physical activity resources
