Health Outcome focus and accomplishments:
- Substantial increase in produce availability, choices, distribution
- Developed the Food Pantry as a healthy community asset; connections, resources, wellness.
- Diversification of clients accessing Pantry; increased numbers of elders, single adults, and families new to the USA, Gladstone, and Clackamas County.
"I haven’t worked for a month. I am so glad you are here.” Anonymous
Reduce heart disease and type II diabetes
Goal 1: Improve worksite wellness to increase physical activity opportunities and healthy food policies to increase activity of employees and increase healthy food consumption.
Dec
2020
2020
Objective: Healthy vending, training for wellness champion, implementation of worksite wellness assessment, worksite wellness curriculum, worksite wellness best practices, healthy meetings, employee activity programs, celebrating success, increase active commuting, wellness incentives.
Health Equity Zones: All
Age Ranges: 16-70
Goal 2: Improve school wellness by increasing physical activity done by students and increasing consumption of healthy foods during school hours.
Dec
2020
2020
Help schools meet new PE standards, infusing health education into all classes, student leadership in wellness, fruit and vegetable tasting, healthy celebrations, cooking and food resource management classes, physically active classrooms, active recess, open gym, physical activity school programs, school gardens.
Health Equity Zones: All
Age Ranges: 3-18
Goal 3: Reduce the consumption of added sugar to CDC guidance of less than 10% of daily calories.
Dec
2020
2020
Objective: Wellness incentives, increasing water stations, education campaign.
Health Equity Zones: All
Age Ranges: All
Goal 4: Increase the percentage of people consuming CDC recommendation of 5 or more fruits and vegetables per day.
Dec
2020
2020
Objective: Power of Produce Kids Club
Health Equity Zones: All
Age Ranges: 4-18
Objective: Increase fruits and vegetables available at school-based health centers.
Health Equity Zones: All
Age Ranges: 5-18
Objective: Veggie RX, SNAP match
Health Equity Zones: All
Age Ranges: 18+
Objective: Communal eating and Mediterranean diet.
Health Equity Zones: All
Age Ranges: 60+
Objective: Campaign to try new vegetables, veggie tasting, promotion of fruit and vegetables, policies that promote healthy choices, systems changes that motivate health, healthy corner stores, healthy vending, food hubs and community supported agriculture.
Health Equity Zones: All
Age Ranges: All
Goal 5: Reduce percentage of children ages 0-5 screen time exposure to CDC recommendation of 1-2 hours maximum recreationally.
Dec
2020
2020
Objective: Pediatrician involvement and screening, encourage parent-child interactive activities, independent activity motivation for young children, education campaign.
Health Equity Zones: All
Age Ranges: 0-5
Goal 6: Increase the percentage of people meeting the CDC’s physical activity recommendations of 30 minutes daily for adults and 1 hour daily for youth.
Dec
2020
2020
Objective 1: Physician prescription for physical activity, increase awareness of health indicators like metabolic rate, new or improved physical resources for activity, transport to activity places, open school campuses, creating or improving places for physical activity, Safe Routes to Schools and Safe Routes to Food.
Health Equity Zones: All
Age Ranges: All
Objective 2: Interventions engaging community health workers.
Health Equity Zones: All
Age Ranges: 50-65
Children Living Below Poverty Level
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This indicator shows the percentage of people under the age of 18 who are living below the federal poverty level.
Numerator = Total estimate of persons under 18 who had income in the past 12 months that was below the poverty level
Denominator = Total population estimate under 18 with poverty status determined
Data Source: American Community Survey 5-Year
