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Physical Activity
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Public Health used the
community based prevention-
marketing model to build the
capacity of Latino mothers to
improve their health. Latino
mothers at Monterey Elemen-
tary School had been meeting
to receive parenting, ESL and
nutrition classes from the
school district and the Public
Health Department. The moms perceived the next step in
improving their health was to start aerobics class. parents requested assistance from the school principal and the health educator to help them initiate the class. The challenges identified included: individualls could not afford to belong to a gym, the group had no funds to hire a teacher, the school district did not have a Spaish speaking aerobics instructor, the school could not cover liability insurance if they were not providing the teacher, and meeting room at the school was too small for an aerobics class.
Public Health, acting in the role of liason, connected the parents with resources to facilitate the establishment of an aerobics class in the neighborhood. Through a collaborative partnership with community agencies, barriers were overcome, including the lack of space and instructors. |
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In this process, two mothers were intially trained trained by the local university to become aerbbics instructors. A core group of women have been participating in the classes for
a year and pre/post data has shown improvements in risk factors. The core group has marketed the classes and recruited 75 new class partici-pants; additionally six other moms have been trained as aerobic instructors. |
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