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Healthy Opportunities through People Empowerment – HOPE: Evaluation

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The purpose of this presentation is to share the evaluation data of the Health Opportunities through People Empowerment (HOPE) project within the Flint Hills Wellness Coalition. The HOPE project is funded by a 3-year grant from the Kansas Health Foundation to advance health equity in Riley County through resident-led policy and systems change. Beginning in Dec of 2017, we employed a direct action community organizing model to work with residents to identify and develop leadership and advocacy capacity among residents. We interviewed 40 participants, including residents, project team members, and local decision makers to learn about their experience with this work, what is working, challenges, and what the future of this work can and should look like. Preliminary results indicate that residents see the importance of community organized groups like this within the community. This group has brought together neighbors with similar concerns and empowered them to voice these concerns to elected officials who are able to make a change. The organizational structure and stability were also common themes, both of which directly impact how well the group functions as a whole. Implications for this initiative and replication in other neighborhoods and communities are discussed.

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Healthy Opportunities through People Empowerment – HOPE: Evaluation

The purpose of this presentation is to share the evaluation data of the Health Opportunities through People Empowerment (HOPE) project within the Flint Hills Wellness Coalition. The HOPE project is funded by a 3-year grant from the Kansas Health Foundation to advance health equity in Riley County through resident-led policy and systems change. Beginning in Dec of 2017, we employed a direct action community organizing model to work with residents to identify and develop leadership and advocacy capacity among residents. We interviewed 40 participants, including residents, project team members, and local decision makers to learn about their experience with this work, what is working, challenges, and what the future of this work can and should look like. Preliminary results indicate that residents see the importance of community organized groups like this within the community. This group has brought together neighbors with similar concerns and empowered them to voice these concerns to elected officials who are able to make a change. The organizational structure and stability were also common themes, both of which directly impact how well the group functions as a whole. Implications for this initiative and replication in other neighborhoods and communities are discussed.

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