African American Churches Eating Smart and Moving More
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Who is it for?
Church staff and members, health department staff, Cooperative Extension Agents and community partners.
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How do you get it?
This resource is distributed electronically and can be downloaded on this page.
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How is it used?
Provides guidance and tools for nutrition and physical activity programs in African-American churches.
African American Churches Eating Smart and Moving More - Planning and Resource Guide is designed to assist churches with planning, promoting and implementing programs for health and wellness. the guide was developed to reduce health disparities among African Americans in North Carolina by providing a tool for faith-based organizations to use to increase opportunities for healthy eating and increased physical activity.
The African-American Churches Eating Smart and Moving More A Planning and Resource Guide provides African American Church staff and members, health department staff, community partners and others with information and tools to plan and conduct multi level nutrition and physical activity programs in the Church. The Guide is tailored for both community health professionals and African-American Church leaders to form partnerships in working on nutrition and physical activity. It provides guidelines, sample policies and resources to create opportunities for Church members to eat smart and move more. The Guide focuses on promoting behavior changes such as increasing fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods in the diet and increasing physical activity, rather than on specific chronic diseases themselves.
The Guide development was supported by an advisory committee with representatives from public health, churches and universities. The development of the African-American Churches Eating Smart and Moving More Project and Guide surveyed past faith-based projects to learn from their successes.
Several trainings to introduce the Guide and share information on how to plan and conduct church-based programs have been conducted. The Guide is now available without needing to attend a training and can be obtained by completing the African American Churches Eating Smart and Moving More: Planning & Resource Guide Request Form*. *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 2.14.07.doc (Word Document (.doc) file
- AACESMM Guide Request form 2.14.07 final.dot (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
- Faith Community Resource Directory
- The Nutrition and Physical Activity Resource Directory contains a list of programs in North Carolina that can help faith communities eat smart and move more.
