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Thriving Communities is a program designed to enhance or create an environment and programs that promote healthy lifestyles through increased physical activity and healthy food choices. The Thriving Communities project, launched in the spring of 2006, brings together a powerful group of partners to work on programs, policies and environmental changes that support healthy eating and active living (HEAL).
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Thriving Communities activities in Commerce City are growing. TCHD is partnering with organizations in Commerce City to expand cooking and nutrition classes, conduct walkability audits neighborhood-by-neighborhood, and working on safe routes to school. Adams City High School students, working through the Kaiser Educational Theatre Program, presented their survey results and amazing documentary to the City Council on April 13th. Exciting events include the Derby Daze Festival on June 10, 2006 in the historic Derby business district and the Photovoice project this summer. Photovoice is a community-based method of expression, a way for people to voice their opinions and ideas through photography and writing. Also in the works are three “walkability” audits: the first in the Derby Business District on July 25th and two others in the neighborhoods around Kemp and Central Elementary in August and September. Similar walkability audits are coming in 2007 to the neighborhoods surrounding Rose Hill, Dupont and Alsup Elementary Schools. Walkability audits provide the chance for neighbors to assess the condition of their streets and neighborhoods, identify changes that they can make and reach consensus on recommendations for their local government. Two community assessments are forthcoming: the Derby Redevelopment Health Impact Assessment and School Health Index. The Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a tool that can be used to evaluate the potential health effects of a project before it is implemented. An HIA brings public health issues to the attention of decision-makers who work outside of traditional public health arenas in fields such as transportation or land use. Tri-County Health Department and the City of Commerce City coordinated a Health Impact Assessment. The School Health Index (SHI) is a self -assessment tool to help schools assess and improve their health and safety policies and programs. It focuses on several topics, including physical activity, healthy eating, tobacco use prevention, asthma and unintentional injury and violence prevention. Adams City Middle School and Adams City High School will be the prototypes in Adams County School District 14 in the fall of 2007. The Thriving Communities project will span three to five years and is funded by a grant from Kaiser Permanente. Other partners include the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center’s America on the Move, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Physical Activity and Nutrition Program and Kroenke Sports Enterprises. For more information, contact Merrick Wright at (303) 846-6212.
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