University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Newsletters Publications & Reports Fall 9-1-2010 The onnecC tion, Volume 7, Issue 01, Fall 2010 Sally Davis Linda Beltran Susan DeFrancesco Josala Fetherolf Mary Hanrahan See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hsc_prc_newsletters Recommended Citation Sally Davis, Linda Beltran, Susan DeFrancesco, Josala Fetherolf, Mary Hanrahan, Lakhana Peou, and Emily Piltch. "The onneC ction, Volume 7, Issue 01, Fall 2010." (2010). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hsc_prc_newsletters/29 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications & Reports at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Newsletters by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Sally Davis, Linda Beltran, Susan DeFrancesco, Josala Fetherolf, Mary Hanrahan, Lakhana Peou, and Emily Piltch This newsletter is available at UNM Digital Repository: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hsc_prc_newsletters/29 THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIPS SCHOOL efMEDICINE PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER The Connection Prevention & Population Sciences COMMUNITY ADVISORY COUNCIL (CAC) AND THE UNM PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER (PRC) FALL 2010 - Volume 7, Issue 1 PRC awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Grant Susan DeFrancesco, JD, MPH, MAT local, state and nation- community garden in an outlying Native al partners including community. Working with community community partners partners, PRC faculty and staff are pro- involved in the Step viding technical assistance and helping Into Cuba Alliance, to find the needed additional resources Cuba’s partnership to make these changes a reality. In of organizations and addition, policy changes that support individuals working to these kinds of community initiatives are increase opportunities a focus of the grant work. For example, for physical activity in PRC staff and community partners will the village of Cuba. work to supplement an existing Based on a rigorous Village community planning document to support and provide specific guid- Cuba youth working to build new community garden selection process that ance on ways to make Cuba more bed in May 2010 drew more than 500 proposals from across walkable. In December 2009, the PRC re- the country, Cuba was one of 41 sites This new PRC project is entitled ceived funding from the Robert Wood selected for the RWJF Healthy Kids, Healthy Kids, Healthy Cuba. New Johnson Foundation’s national program Healthy Communities program. PRC staff Shari Smoker (introduced called Healthy Kids, Healthy Communi- The activities that are currently the on page 4), a Cuba resident, serves ties – a community action program that focus of the grant include: the develop- as the Community Project Coordina- is a cornerstone of RWJF’s commit- ment of a Cuba Farmers’ Market (the tor. PRC faculty Susan DeFrancesco, ment to reverse the country’s childhood first-ever Cuba Farmers’ Market was JD, MPH is Project Director and Emily obesity epidemic by 2015. The goals held August 7 to October 30, 2010); Piltch, MPH serves as Project of the PRC’s four year RWJF grant are the expansion of the Cuba Community Coordinator. a to improve the health of children in and Garden to include local youth; changes around Cuba, NM by increasing access along U.S. Highway 550 in Cuba to For more information please contact Susan DeFrancesco at (505) 272-3933 or to healthy foods and providing safe slow traffic and make it safer for people via email at [email protected]. places to walk and play. The project is crossing; and the creation of safe in partnership with a broad coalition of places to play, walking paths and a P2 P3 P4&5 P6&7 P8&9 P10&11 CONTENTS 2010 CHILE Summit National Childrens Study HIA Training (cont.) ACTION (cont.) PAK “In-Vests” in Walking for Health HIA Training Refugee Well-being New PRC Staff Refugee Well-being (cont.) NM’s Cuba’s NM Pubic Health Conference Project Update ACTION NM Safe Routes to School Farmers’ Market ACL Teen Centers’ News 2 Connections FALL 2010 UNM Prevention Research Center UNM PRC Advances New Mexico Efforts in Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Training Representatives from and Application 16 New Mexico Head Emily Pitch, MPH Start Centers Attend Second Annual CHILE On July 15, 2009, over 50 Summit in Albuquerque individuals from throughout the state representing federal, state and Courtney FitzGerald, MSW local agencies attended the first New On Friday, April 28, 2010, The Mexico Health Impact Assessment UNM PRC hosted the 2010 CHILE Sum- (HIA) training. It was hosted by the mit. The Summit is an annual meeting of UNM PRC with support provided by representatives from Head Start centers the Centers for Disease Control and across New Mexico that participate in the Prevention (CDC) and the NM Child Health Initiative for Lifelong Eating Chapter of the American Planning Association. HIA is a set of guidelines that and Exercise (CHILE), a five-year obesity provides procedures, methods and tools that estimate the potential effects of a and diabetes prevention study funded by policy, program or project on the health of a population. Information that is the National Institutes of Health, National gathered and presented through conducting an HIA can bring public health Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and issues to the attention of decision makers who do not regularly consider health Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). CHILE includes implications of community development. a classroom-based curriculum about Dr. Candace Rutt, of the CDC, was the instructor for the day-long training. nutrition and physical activity for preschool Dr. Rutt has been involved in numerous HIAs ranging from walk to school aged children, training and technical programs, farmers markets, urban redevelopment projects, and natural resource support for teachers, an intervention for development projects. Since the training, PRC staff have provided presentations the school food service, and working with on the basics of HIAs to community coalitions, UNM students and at the annual the local grocery store in each participat- meetings of the NM Public Health Association and the NM Chapter of the ing Head Start community. Dr. Sally Davis, American Planning Association to promote the use of this tool. Communities Principal Investigator for the CHILE study throughout the state work every day to advocate for decision making that and the Director of the Prevention Research promotes and protects the public’s health. Use of HIA is a formalized method Center, welcomed 65 Head Start teach- of providing this type of information to Changes to U.S. 550 can make Cuba ers, coordinators, directors, and parents to decision makers. Recently, the PRC worked a healthier and safer place to live. The Village of Cuba will soon receive funding from the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) to improve sidewalks and lighting on U.S. 550. NMDOT beginning to plan what the project wil is the Hotel Albuquerque in Old Town for this with the Cuba community through the Step l look like. There are many ways that U.S. 550 can be made safer for pedestrians and many good reasons for making it safer. year’s event. Summit participants met to Into Cuba Alliance, Cuba’s partnership of Changes to U.S. 550 can make it safer and more inviting. shorten the distance for people crossing the street, and to makTheree it easier are different for drivers ways to seeto slow the peopletraffic, to celebrate their successes at the end of the organizations and individuals promoting trying to cross the street. Here are some ways to “calm” or slow traffic down: research phase of the study, and to plan for walkability and physical activity, to conduct the delivery of the CHILE project to Head an HIA. The Step Into Cuba Alliance is Start centers in the delayed-intervention working to make U.S. Highway 550, Cuba’s SPEED FEEDBACK SIGNS tell drivers their speed (measured by radar) and the speed limit on the road. MEDIAN ISLANDS provide a safe place in the middle of the road for people to stop and wait for traffic. If there is a med island, people do not have to wait for traffic to clear in bothian group of the study. The CHILE project Main Street, a safer and more pleasant place directions. They can cross when traffic is clear in only one direction. continues through February 2011. a for walking. This HIA documents the connec- tions between health and transportation For more information contact Courtney and roadway planning and shows design “GATEWAY” SIGNS let drivers know they are leaving a rural highway and entering a community. BULB-OUTS, OR EXTENSIONS of the sidewalk at either end of a crosswalk, make the distance people have to cross FitzGerald at (505) 272-4462 or via email shorter and make it easier for drivers to see the people trying to cross the street. at [email protected]. Continued on page 4 4 Visit us at http://hsc.unm.edu/som/prc/ Connections FALL 2010 UNM Prevention Research Center 3 The National Children’s REFUGEE Study WELL-BEING (NCS) PROJECT UPDATE Josala Fetherolf, MS Jessica Goodkind, Ph.D The Refugee Well-being Project The National Children’s (RWP), last featured in the Winter 2008 Study (NCS) is the largest CAC Newsletter, is a community-based long-term examination of participatory research study that contin- children’s health ever ues to work in partnership with refugees conducted in the United who have been recently resettled in States. Nationally, it will Albuquerque, New Mexico. RWP seeks follow 100,000 children to reduce social, economic, and mental from before birth to age 21 health disparities to learn how the environment experienced by and genetics may influence Dr. Beth Tigges, co-investigator of the National refugees in New children’s health and Children’s Study, presents Kayla Lucero with a Mexico through development.