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Evaluating Obesity Prevention Efforts: A Plan for Measuring Progress (2013)

8/1/13 - This report from the Institute of Medicine offers a framework that will provide guidance for systematic and routine planning, implementation, and evaluation of the advancement of obesity prevention efforts.
Topic(s): Obesity
Content Type: Resource
Leading Healthy Indicators for CATCH

2/1/14 - CATCH provides a comprehensive and coordinated framework to address many of the key Leading Health Indicators from Healthy People 2020.
Topic(s): School Health CATCH Obesity
Content Type: Resource
2013 Texas Health Perception Survey Brief

One-page summary of the 2013 Texas Health Perception Survey results.
Topic(s): TCOPPE Health Policy Obesity
Content Type: Resource
2013 Texas Health Perception Survey Report

Eighty-three Texas legislators were surveyed to identify knowledge and perceptions about obesity prevention and control measures. Legislators from both political parties and legislative chambers responded to the survey.
Topic(s): TCOPPE Health Policy Obesity
Content Type: Resource
SPAN Survey Fact Sheets

9/1/14 - Download detailed 2009-2011 SPAN Survey results, sorted into one-page fact sheets by grade (4th, 8th, and 11th) and Health Service Region.
Topic(s): Measurement Nutrition SPAN Survey School Health Health Policy Obesity Reports
Content Type: Resource
GO, SLOW, WHOA Diagrama de Flujo

4/1/15 - Sigue el camino para aprender cómo elegir alimentos más saludables—trata de comer más alimentos GO que alimentos SLOW, y come alimentos WHOA en pequeñas cantidades.
Topic(s): Spanish Nutrition CATCH Obesity
Content Type: Resource
Active Texas 2020: Taking Action to Promote Physical Activity

12/1/09 - A 10-year blueprint detailing proven strategies that will help schools, medical care organizations, employers, municipal leaders, transportation planners, parks and wildlife leaders and community leaders find and implement proven strategies for helping make exercise and physical activity a health priority throughout the State of Texas.
Topic(s): Health Policy
Content Type: Resource
CATCH Healthy Habits at Home

4/1/10 - This handout contains simple steps that will add up to a big difference in your family’s health. Be a CATCH MVP and select one or two new habits that are best suited for you and your family!
Topic(s): Nutrition Texas CORD School Health CATCH Obesity
Content Type: Resource
Niños sanos aprenden mejor!

4/1/10 - Este volante para padres incluye consejos saludables del programa CATCH.
Topic(s): Spanish Nutrition School Health CATCH Obesity
Content Type: Resource
CATCH Your Students At Their Best

4/1/10 - This flyer for parents includes healthy tips from the CATCH program.
Topic(s): Nutrition Texas CORD School Health CATCH Obesity
Content Type: Resource
Physical Activity & Cancer

6/1/11 - This fact sheet explains the importance of physical activity in cancer prevention.
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CATCH in IOM report on Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention

5/1/12 - This excerpt from the 2012 Institute of Medicine report on Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention discusses the evidence base for the CATCH program.
Topic(s): Nutrition Texas CORD School Health CATCH Health Policy Obesity Reports
Content Type: Resource
Designed to Move: A Physical Activity Action Agenda

9/1/12 - More than 70 experts from a wide range of disciplines contributed to the development of the fact base and this framework. This document is for the “changemakers”–people, companies, institutions and governments with the resources to turn this situation around.
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Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth

9/1/12 - In this report, the IOM assesses the relationship between youth fitness test items and health outcomes, recommends the best fitness test items, provides guidance for interpreting fitness scores, and provides an agenda for needed research.
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Educating the Student Body: Taking Physical Activity and Physical Education to School (2013)

The Institute of Medicine’s recommendations for strengthening and improving programs and policies for physical activity and physical education in the school environment—including before, during, and after school.
Topic(s): School Health Reports
Content Type: Resource
Activity Break Guide

11/1/13 - Got that “2:30" feeling? Don’t reach for a sugary energy drink–try these activity breaks to re-energize your body and mind!
Topic(s): Nutrition Obesity
Content Type: Resource
Health Fits Into Every Day Infographic

8/31/14 - Health Fits Into Every Day: Tie in all of the CATCH "Health Fits Into Every Day" tip sheets with this infographic.
Topic(s): Nutrition School Health CATCH
Content Type: Resource
Child Obesity in Texas infographic

9/1/14 - Child obesity rates and statistics on obesity-related health behaviors from the 2009-2011 SPAN Survey.
Topic(s): Nutrition SPAN Survey School Health Obesity
Content Type: Resource
Active Play-Active Learning Brain Breaks Guide

2/1/15 - In this guide, we present a range of easy-to-implement “Brain Breaks”- short activity dynamics that can be implemented by the teacher in the classroom setting. The guide is structured in two sections: 1.) General Brain Breaks that can be applied across classes and academic topic areas during any part of the day; and 2.) Academic-specific Brain Breaks that directly correlate to subjects.
Topic(s): School Health APAL Obesity
Content Type: Resource
Active Play-Active Learning Peer-Led Activity Guide

2/1/15 - The Peer-Led games process of Active Play Active Learning is a way to teach students leadership skills as well as social and emotional skills while they engage in physically active games.
Topic(s): School Health APAL Obesity
Content Type: Resource
Slides - Taking Physical Activity Beyond the School Walls with Dr. Jim Sallis

PDF of the slides from the webinar, Taking Physical Activity Beyond the School Walls with Dr. Jim Sallis.
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"Risky Business: Kids, E-cigs, Vaping and New Tobacco Products" webinar slides

Our guest speaker for this webinar was Terry Pechacek, PhD, Deputy Director for Research Translation in the Office of Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Weight of the Nation

5/1/12 - Visit the Weight of the Nation website where you can find resources, take pledges for healthy change, and watch the documentary films in their entirety.
Topic(s): Obesity
Content Type: Resource
Desafío de verano saludable

7/17/19 - Anime a sus hijos a tomar el Desafío de verano saludable. Estos calendarios están llenos de desafíos de nutrición y actividad física para mantener a sus hijos saludables durante el descanso.
Topic(s): Spanish
Content Type: Resource
Nutrition: 6 to 24 Months

Duration: 1.5 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1.5 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Identify nutrition guidelines at different stages of growth from 6 to 24 months, describe the differences between store bought and homemade baby food, and state strategies for making meal planning easier for families with small children.
Topic(s): Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Community Leadership

Duration: 1 hour; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1 DSHS Certified CEU for Community Health Workers; Reflect on your leadership skills, watch videos about leadership, read about characteristics of effective leaders, and most importantly, think about how you would apply these leadership principles in your work.
Topic(s): Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Evaluation of the Austin/Travis County Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan

10/25/2016 - In 2011, Austin/Travis County (ATC) Health and Human Services launched the CHA/CHIP, a collaborative, 5-year community health assessment (CHA) and planning initiative (CHIP) aimed at identifying and prioritizing key health needs of residents in Austin/Travis County and developing and implementing a community-wide health improvement plan of action. In an effort to further document and evaluate the process, progress, and lessons learned of this first cycle, researchers at the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living based at the UTHealth School of Public Health in Austin were contracted to conduct a posthoc stakeholder evaluation of the ATC CHA/CHIP (2011-2016).
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Together We Thrive: Austin/Travis County Community Health Plan

12/1/2012 - Health is affected by where and how we live, work, play, and learn. Understanding these factors and how they influence health is critical to efforts aimed to improve the health of the community. Identifying the health issues of an area and their larger context and then developing a plan to address them are key steps in the larger health planning process. To accomplish these goals, Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services in collaboration with multiple organizations including UTHealth School of Public Health.
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Community Health Improvement Plan: Austin/Travis County

8/1/2018 - Where and how we live, work, play, and learn affects our health. Understanding how these factors influence health is critical for developing the best strategies to address them. To accomplish these goals, our community is undergoing a comprehensive community health planning effort to measurably improve the health of Austin/Travis County residents. This effort is led by Austin Pubic Health in collaboration with multiple organizations including UTHealth School of Public Health in Austin.
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Program Planning

Duration: 3 hours; Target Audience: Public Health Program Managers; An introduction to program planning tools, this training includes: the ecological model, creating a logic model, and evidence-based program planning as 3 distinct units. We will walk you through steps to make an evidence-based program plan.
Topic(s): Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Duration: 1 hour; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1.0 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Identify factors that affect the onset of gestational diabetes, causes of the disease, the effect on mother and baby, and how best to prevent and manage it.
Topic(s): Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Delivery and the First Hour

Duration: 1 hour; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1.0 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Describe a birth plan, explain the rights of childbearing women, explore the roles of a birth partner, and explain 3 evidence-based practices for the first hour after an infant is born: skin-to-skin contact, delayed cord clamping, and delayed bathing.
Topic(s): Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Community Engagement and Cultural Competence

Duration: 1.5 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers & Program Implementers; Certifications: 1.5 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Explore how cultural competency is needed in healthcare and how to improve cultural competency of your organization. Design an approach to increase cultural competency in a community setting. Develop a plan for increasing community involvement in your program.
Topic(s): Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Addressing Infant Mortality: Preconception Health

Duration: 1.5 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1.5 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Explore ways that women's preconception health affects their risk for complications and infant death. Practice counseling women on how to make a life plan.
Topic(s): Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Safe Sleep

Duration: 1.5 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: DSHS Certified CEUs pending; Understand the proper guidelines for safe sleep, outline best practices to improve compliance of parents and caregivers to safe sleep guidelines, state how to reduce perceived barriers to safe sleep, and identify safe sleep environments and potential hazards.
Topic(s): Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Better Together Part 3: Social Support in Prenatal Care

Duration: 2.0 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers or Support Group Leaders; Certifications: 2.0 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; This course is aimed at increasing awareness of the various benefits of social support groups for both mothers and their offspring. In great detail, this training explains the benefits of social support groups and equips the learner with the skills to create and maintain his or her own social support group.
Topic(s): Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Better Together Part 2: Behaviors that Affect Pregnancy

Duration: 1.0 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: DSHS Certified CEUs pending; There are several behaviors that affect the health of the baby during a pregnancy. In this module, we will discuss the behaviors that harm the baby and negatively affect the pregnancy, including smoking, alcohol consumption, and use of drugs and medicines.
Topic(s): Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Overview of Mental Wellness

Duration: 2.0 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 2.0 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; This course provides a broad overview of mental wellness. Course content includes defining mental wellness and understanding the different aspects of mental wellness. This course also describes how to cope with poor mental wellness by highlighting several coping techniques.
Topic(s): Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Nutrition and Exercise for Mental Wellness

Duration: 1.0 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1.0 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Define good physical and mental health, identify how your physical health affects your mental health, identify how nutrition plays a role for your mental wellness, identify good nutrition for your mental and physical wellness, and understand more how physical activity plays a role for your mental wellness.
Topic(s): Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Developmental Delays: Fine & Gross Motor Skills

Duration: 1.5 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1.5 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Define fine and gross motor skills, Identify typical fine and gross motor skill milestones, and list strategies for in-home parent led interventions to improve motor skills.
Topic(s): Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
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