EAT WELL FEEL WELL

CT-1046: Sunnyslope, AZ

Daisy Aguilar, Yatzel Alvarez, Minette Anu

University of Arizona BSN-IH
NURS473 Population Health and Community Nursing
Professor Kirkpatrick and Professor Peters
June 14, 2022
 Learning Outcomes

The audience will learn About our Census Tract 1046 and the community.

The audience will understand why nutrition is important to help decrease obesity in adolescents.

The audience will identify The community's strengths and weakness.

The audience will learn How COVID-19 impacted the community.

The audience will identify The interventions that will address the problem within the community.
Community Assessments and Results
 Community Assessments cont.
● CT 1046 aka Sunnyslope is a
community of Phoenix, lying
seven miles north of Downtown
Phoenix.
● It is nestled in the foothills of
the North Mountain range.
● Sunnyslope borders are a swath
north of the Arizona Canal and
south of North Mountain, and
from 19th Avenue in the West
to the Mountains in the east. ● Poverty rate in the
community is 14.2%
● Poverty rate for
children under 18 is
23%

https://twitter.com/glendaleunionaz/status/1186773501220253696
 Community Strengths and Stressors

Strengths: Stressors:
KI #1: Food Bank
KI #2 Food Bank
Employee
employee
● Culturally diversified ● Affordable housing
● More resources ● Healthy food and
available such as health care access
Desert Mission KI #3 Firefighter:
(Food Bank) ● Poverty - lack of
● Community is money and
unified and come resources
together annually. ● Malnutrition
Ex: Slope Fest ○ Obesity and
heart disease
 Community Health Diagnoses

● Risk for impaired nutrition in the adolescence population; more

than body requirements related to excess amounts to fast-
foods as evidenced by key informants stating, “seeing an
increase of obesity in children within schools and community”.
 Community Health Goal
○ Our main health concern is impaired nutrition due to the lack
of groceries stores and excess amount of fast-food options in
the community.

○ This can heavily impact the adolescent population because of

environmental disparities and limited access and education on
healthier choices.

○ This relates to the increase of obesity in adolescents.

○ Our overall goal is to see a decrease in obesity in the

adolescent population in Sunnyslope and promote healthy
living.
 Community Intervention 1:
Lets Get Cooking!
● Encourage adolescents to make their own meals instead of
having their parents buy fast foods.
● If the adolescents learn how to use the utilities in the
kitchen, they would be more confident in making delicious
recipes.
● The cooking class will also teach how to create portion
control meal preps.
● Other benefits would be to teach adolescents how to
calorie count their meals for effective weight loss.
● Research shows that cooking interventions yielded positive
influences on socialization, self-esteem, quality of life, and
affect. This is a primary prevention.
 Community Intervention 2:
Garden Party
● Teaching adolescents how to garden.
● Gardening will provide hands-on experience planting, cultivating, and harvesting fruits
and vegetables in hopes of increasing their effort to consume more fruits and
vegetables.
● This is also another great way to grow your own food and it is cost efficient compared
to local food markets, which can sometimes be expensive. This is a primary
prevention.
 Healthy People (HP) 2020 support

● Most applicable Overarching Goal: Nutrition and Weight

Status

● Topic Area Goal: Promote health and reduce chronic disease

risk through the consumption of healthful diets and
achievement and maintenance of healthy body weights.

● On Healthy People 2020, one focus area that is applicable in

our topic is objective number NWS-10.3 which is to, “ reduce
the proportion of adolescents aged 12 to 19 years who are
considered obese” (Healthy People, 2020).
 Health Policy:
The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP)
CNPP:
Provides national leadership and technical
expertise for development of the Dietary
Guidelines for Americans and the MyPlate
consumer food guidance symbol (USDA, 2022).
Mission:
The FNS (Food and Nutrition Service) Center
for Nutrition Policy and Promotion works to
improve the health and well-being of
Americans by developing and promoting
dietary guidance that links scientific research
to the nutrition needs of consumers (USDA,
2022).
CNPP carries out its mission to improve the health
of Americans by:
1) Serving as the Federal authority on
evidence-based food, nutrition and
economic analyses to inform policy and
programs
2) Translating science into actionable food
and nutrition guidance for all Americans
3) Leading national communication
initiatives that apply science-based
messages to advance consumers’
dietary and economic knowledge and
behaviors (USDA, 2022).
 Evaluation Plan
Duration Age Group Progress Reinforcement

Some kids made

Work on meal
progress and other
Six Months Adolescents did not. No kid regimen and BMI
reached their target target.
goal.

Some reached their

target BMI and had a Reinforce physical
One Year Adolescents good meal plan. exercise and meal
planning.

Some kids grow

taller, had less body
fat, maintained their Work on maintaining
Two Years Adolescents the progress they
target BMI, and had have achieve.
a consistent meal
regimen plan.
COVID-19 Impact on the Community

Health Education
Home Schooling, Drop-
Nutrition, Physical
out, Idleness
Exercise, Mental health,
(inappropriate activities)
and Death

Families Housing
Increase Prices –
Reunions and separations. Homelessness, and
overcapacity.

Financially Others
Job (decrease in job Socialization, Religion,
availability, decrease Travel,
workers, low pay), Low
Household Income,
 Dissemination

We will Use the 3 P's (Posters, Presentations,

and Papers) of dissemination through these
medium.

- Educational Program in School

- Through social media or on an
organization's website.
- On Billboard and Radio Station
- Flyers
- Word of mouth
 References
Healthy People 2020. (2022). Nutrition and weight status | healthy people 2020. Office of Disease Prevention

and Health Promotion. https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/nutrition-and-weight-status

Farmer, N., Touchton-Leonard, K., & Ross, A. (2018). Psychosocial benefits of cooking interventions: A systematic

review. Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5862744/

USDA. (2022.). Center for nutrition policy and promotion (CNPP). Food and Nutrition Service U.S. Department of

Agriculture. https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp
 Images used:
Community Assessments and Results- Slide 3:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/486388828482217519/

Community Assessments cont. - Slide 4:

https://shsvikingviews.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/sunnyslope-high-school-hits-
60-year-landmark/
https://twitter.com/glendaleunionaz/status/1186773501220253696

Community Strengths and Stressors- Slide 5:

https://www.istockphoto.com/illustrations/strengths-and-weaknesses

Garden Party- Slide 10:

https://clipartix.com/vegetable-clip-art-image-24466/
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