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Community Action Plan

School Health
An 'all fronts' series of intervention programs covering: nutrition, physical activity, asthma education and smoking cessation

School Health Coordinator and Advisory Council

• Establish a full-time School Health Coordinator and Advisory Council within the office of the Superintendent.
• Develop Strategic Plan to be submitted to Superintendent and the School Board.

School-Based Nutrition Program Intervention

Improve school nutrition utilizing a three-part strategy: 1. Eliminate junk food; 2. Provide training on the importance of adhering to standardized recipes to achieve healthy results; and 3. Develop a marketing campaign that promotes the benefits of healthy food choices offered in school cafeterias.

Increased Physical Activity/Physical Education/Recess

• Increase the time students spend in structured physical education (PE) classes, in supervised after-school activities and in free play, as well as an increase in the level of physical activity children reach during these times.
• Establish a learning community among school PE teachers and coaches to improve the quality of physical activities offered in school and in after-school programs.

Identify the highest risk asthmatic children

• Facilitate the education of high-risk asthmatic children, using the American Lung Association's 'Open Airways' curriculum.
• Train school nurses, social workers, teachers and principals to reinforce and update asthma knowledge, behaviors and practices.

Smoke-Free Schools

• Enforce and strengthen smoking prohibition policies.
• Educate school staff
• Provide information on cessation programs.

Asthma_Care_________________________________________
Identifies high-risk asthmatic children. Educates children, parents, school staff and primary care physicians on management of disease.

• Identify high-risk children with asthma in New Orleans Emergency Rooms, in New Orleans Public Schools, Private Schools and Heat Start programs.
• Educate parents, students, teachers and school staff in asthma self-management
• Educate primary care physicians with National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines for asthma management.
• Work with Emergency Room Directors to design mechanism for management of chronic asthma.
• Link asthmatic children with primary care physicians.
• Identify barriers that prevent adherence to NIH guidelines.

Neighborhood Environment_______________________________
Promotes physical activity and healthy eating by developing neighborhoods into more walkable/bikeable communities; and creating greater access to healthy foods.

Walkable/Bikeable Neighborhoods

• Develop and advocate for the implementation of bicycle/pedestrian plans that promote physical activity on a neighborhood and citywide basis.
• Develop plans to provide specific recommendations for the improvement of bicycle/pedestrian infrastructure, safety and policy.

Safe Routes to School Program

• Appoint a Safe Routes to School (SR2S) Director who will offer technical assistance, host training workshops, serve as a liaison and work with city government to help implement action plans.
• Three schools selected for pilot program will organize event for Walk-to-School Week.

Produce Availability

• Support farmers' markets, roadside and mobile produce stands, and community and schoolyard gardens.
• Support regular retail channels to increase the production, accessibility and consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Revitalize Playgrounds

• Support 'Project Playground,' a $14 million capital campaign, will be undertaken by Friends of NORD to renovate and revitalize 50 neighborhood playgrounds in partnership with the City of New Orleans and other community groups.

Community-Based Health Promotion_________________
A Community Voices Health Forum to initiate a Steps citywide Health Promotion Work Plan focusing on obesity, asthma and diabetes.

Structured Intervention

• Support the Daughters of Charity Neighborhood Health Partnership that focuses on organized physical activity and nutrition education.

Church-Based Wellness Program

• Church-based health program focused on screening and referral, health education, and person-to-person connection coordinated through the Congregational Wellness Division of the McFarland Institute.

Community Consortia Plan

• A collaboration between Steps community partners to undertake a series of plans featuring evidenced-based strategies that address nutrition, physical activity and tobacco use related to diabetes, asthma and obesity.

Diabetes Clinical Care__________________________________
Manage the disease through current and proposed interventions, including the creation of a comprehensive diabetes registry.

Diabetes Registry

• Create citywide diabetes registry from clinical information system that has all real-time diagnostic results from the Medical Center of Louisiana (MCL) database, as well as medications dispensed from a community health center's pharmacy network that provide data on more than 10,000 prescriptions per month.

Xavier University of Louisiana - College of Pharmacy

• Conduct and expand diabetes self-management education at community-based pharmacies.
• Track and monitor metabolic outcomes through the diabetes registry.
• Recommend changes to medication profiles.
• Coordinate for the registry in conjunction with primary care sites in the system.

Media Plan_____________________________
Media workgroup supports the efforts of the five major workgroups, and provides technical assistance and advice in regards to the mass media campaign.

Media campaign's two specific goals are: 1. Increase physical activity; and 2. Improve the healthfulness of people's diets, more specifically, increasing the consumption of vegetables and reducing the consumption of high-calorie snack foods.