African American Churches Eating Smart and Moving More

African American Churches Eating Smart and Moving More - Planning and Resource Guide assists churches with planning, promoting and implementing programs for health and wellness. This resorce educes health disparities among African Americans in North Carolina by helping faith-based organizations increase opportunities for healthy eating and increased physical activity.

The Guide encourages community health professionals and African-American Church leaders to form partnerships to work on nutrition and physical activity. The Guide contains sample policies and resources that promote increasing fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods in the diet and increasing physical activity. The Guide does not focuson specific chronic diseases

An advisory committee with representatives from public health, churches and universities developed the Guide using.lessons learned from other faith-based projects.

To date, several trainings have been conducted to introduce the Guide and share information on how to plan and conduct church-based programs. The Guide is now available to anyone. Complete the African American Churches Eating Smart and Moving More: Planning & Resource Guide Request Form below. Please note that there are two versions of the form –one is a Word document and one is set up as a “form template” (.dot). Use whichever form is easier for you to complete and return.

AACESMM Guide Request form (Document (.doc) file)

AACESMM Guide Request form (Template (.dot) file)

Additional Tools

The following resources are available for use by those interested in enhancing the health of North Carolinians by helping them Eat Smart and Move More in Faith Organizations. Many of them come from the African American Churches Eating Smart and Moving More A Planning and Resource Guide.

Goals of the African-American Churches Eating Smart and Moving More - A Planning and Resource Guide

Table of Contents for the African-American Churches Eating Smart and Moving More - A Planning and Resource Guide

Information and Tools to Plan and Conduct Multi-level Nutrition and Physical Activity Programs in the Church:

Increasing Fruits and Vegetables Using the Multi-level Nutrition Approach

Increasing Physical Activity using the Multi-Level Approach

Organizing an African-American Church Program as a Community Health Professional

Organizing an African-American Church Program as a Member of the Congregation

African-American Churches Eating Smart and Moving More Advisory Committee

African-American Faith-based Interventions

African-American Churches Eating Smart & Moving More Conferences/Trainings

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in North Carolina 2006 Report Card

A useful tool that will show at a glance leading health indicators for broad racial and ethnic population groups for North Carolina, supporting data for those health indicators, and a letter grade that ranks the health status of those groups. This report card is put together to inform and help guide those with the will to eliminate health disparities. This document is published by the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities and State Center for Health Statistics North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services