Advancing Healthy Lifestyles Coalition

Collaboration/Partnerships:

Engage coalitions and key representatives across the health system with a PANO focus to serve as a repository, knowledge sharing and networking vehicle.

Potential Actions:

1. Create a health community list serve on the PANO website.
2. Develop a repository of programs and best practices.
3. Provide networking opportunities virtually and in-person for Coalition members and partners.
4. Share data and published reports.
5. Engage in partnerships with businesses, health care community, state systems, local government, faith-based institutions, the re-entry community, the unsheltered, public safety, and school systems.
6. Encourage healthcare system collaboration.
7. Establish relationships with leaders of growing special population groups.
8. A Steering Committee will plan an annual conference.
9. Evaluate the success of this goal and its outcomes.

Community Outreach Engagement and Access:

Provide outreach opportunities to increase access to existing programs and services with a PANO focus, regardless of income, race, ethnicity, gender identification, age, ability, citizenship status, or geography.

Potential Actions:

1. Partner with the Statewide Health Improvement Plan to conduct a needs assessment and convene town halls. Conduct a Town Hall meeting in each county (or participate with other planned town halls). Solicit input from the community and from all age groups on existing needs. Ask what the communities want and need. Partner with the SHIP or hospitals to obtain needs assessments and share data with health community.
2. Remove barriers to health care in economically depressed areas.
3. Increase visibility in the community of existing programs and services that are available especially those that help to reduce health disparities.
4. Utilize community navigators, and community health workers, to assist the community with clinical questions and health system communication.
5. Create mentoring and support programs.
6. Evaluate the success of this goal and its outcomes.

Program Development linked to PANO:

Identify gaps in services and programs that increase access to PANO related services that reduce health disparities, improve outcomes, and affect system or cultural change.

Potential Actions:

1. Access what is available for everyone, providing the tools and skills.
2. Identify and make available innovative evidence based community programs and preventative lifestyle practices and behavioral health.
3. Encourage municipalities to promote physical infrastructure to support healthy lifestyles.
4. Provide education on nutrition and wellness with facts, to change misperceptions.
5. Support and promote programs that make healthy lifestyles easier and promote healthy lifestyles.
6. Find ways to make health resources and information on nutrition, wellness and recreational programs more accessible to consumers.
7. Evaluate the success of this goal and its outcomes.

Marketing and Communication:

Develop a marketing plan for existing programs linked to PANO and other Coalitions that promote equity and help reduce health disparities.

Potential Actions:

1. Develop a communication plan to reach the community with consistent language across the state on health and wellness.
   • Consider literacy levels, dual language audiences, cultural and generational differences, and learning styles in communication strategies.
   • Utilize multiple forms of interaction and outreach and reach meeting people where they are. Reach people where they are and recognize the different communication needs of different generations. Use social media, and app for the health care system.
2. Develop a marketing campaign to encourage communities to change daily decisions, and create new creative daily habits for nutrition, exercise, and health. Target every year the biggest risk factors and use the same messaging. Develop new ways to educate the public and increase awareness on preventative care and lifestyle changes.
3. Use platforms to communicate with communities like Unite Us to promote programs (free to nonprofits).
4. Develop marketing materials to communicate with legislators.

Policy:

Advocate for policy systems or environmental changes with a PANO focus that increase equitable access to health programs and services to increase access and reduce health disparities.

Potential Actions:

1. Identify and pursue policy and legislature changes across the state that remove barriers to health equity. (i.e., Mental health/trauma, public safety, environmental disparities, food desserts/food swamp, etc.)
2. Expand Medicaid to offer more prenatal care and expand to children in western Sussex County, immigrants, and children

Collaboration/Partnerships:

• Kat Luebke, Chair
• Tanya Haley, Co-Chair
• Shawn Stevens
• Romie Lutz
• Jill Hutt
• Allison Zuber
• Betsy Wheeler

Community Outreach Engagement and Access:

• Peter Campbell, Chair
• Debbie Smith
• Bet Wong
• Kim Holmes
• Shorel Clark
• Harold Mack
• LaVaida Owens-White
• Maria Lepore-Stevens
• Kimberly Moore
• Cassandra Davis

Program Development:

• Heather Klemanski, Chair
• Molly Yoo
• Christina Choma
• Mary Lomax
• Natashia Morris-Harrison
• William Wharton
• Laurie Ruggerio
• Soumya Blatt
• Knolan Rawlins

Marketing and Communication:

• Catalina Natalini, Chair
• Peter Campbell, Co-Chair
• Yinka Isichei
• Lisa Moore
• Mike Cordrey
• Devona Williams
• Jayden Carr

Policy:

• Vacant, Chair
• Nancy Mears, Co-Chair
• Karen McGloughlin
• Kat Luebke
• Ayesha Bailey
• Norwood Coleman, Jr.
• Soumya Blatt
• Gwen Angalet
• Kimberly Moore
• Leandra Casson

Conference Steering Committee:

• Lori Ciabattoni, Chair
• Tanya Haley, Co-Chair
• Tori Burton
• Ayesha Bailey
• Devona Williams
• Jayden Carr
• Shebra Hall
• Lauren Butscher
• Mike Cordrey
• LaToya Washington
• Lyra Gibbs-lloyd

Student Committee:

• Tracey Phillips, Chair
• Tracey David Adams
• Jugba Young
• Thelanie Robinson
• Sierra Romaine
• Kendrick “Keni” Hicks

Staffing DSU:

• Director Student Engagement: Amanda Anderson