Idea: Improving Access to Healthy Food to address the problem of food insecurity (which contributes to health problems such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and other chronic diseases).

b.)   Community of interest (geographically defined and community of interest defined (e.g., setting(s) where you will reach population):  

Community: Arcola, Fort Bend County, Texas.

c.)   Priority population: Arcola's population, estimated at around 2,000 residents, mostly comprises low to moderate-income families. Many of them face transportation barriers that further worsen their limited access to fresh and healthy food.

d.)   Preliminary ideas for community health promotion proposal aims (explore 1 or more aims):

The proposed intervention is to establish a "Healthy Food Access Initiative" to increase the availability of fresh fruits, vegetables, and other nutritious foods in Arcola. This initiative will include the following components: Mobile Farmers’ Market, Community Garden, Nutrition Education Programs, and Transportation Assistance.

e.)   Potential Partners: Local Farms and Farmers’ Markets, Fort Bend County Health and Human Services, Arcola Independent School District, Local Churches and Faith-Based Organizations, Community-based nonprofits, and Transportation Services.

a) My initial idea for a community health issue is type 2 diabetes.

b) El Paso, Texas (geographical) (community by shared diagnosis of type 2 diabetes)

I would like to partner with the El Paso Children's Hospital and or the Center for Diabetes.

c) Adolescents ages 12-18.

d)Preliminary ideas: A support group for adolescents

*This padlet is a work in progress and I am looking forward to adding more.

2.        Community of Interest: Mayo, Lafayette County, Florida.

3.        Priority Population: Children attending Lafayette Elementary School (n=120).

4.        Preliminary Ideas for Community Health Promotion Proposal Aims: Provide training to school-based nurses in Lafayette County to provide oral health education, oral screenings, fluoride varnish and silver diamine fluoride applications, and refer schoolchildren in need of additional care to dental providers.

5.        Potential Partners: Florida Department of Health and Lafayette County School District.

• My initial idea for a community health issue is increasing contraception use among older adolescents/emerging adults to reduce incidence of STIs.

• This may require some refining, but my current community of interest includes the universities and community colleges located in Harris County, including satellite campuses or instructional sites that may fall outside the county line. I would specifically focus on those aged 18-24 at these institutions.

• Preliminary ideas would be to offer training on the current and newly emerging contraception methods to health and non-health professionals at institutions within the geographic community of interest, provide safer sex education and STI testing and counseling at events popular with the priority population, provide free or discounted contraception at outreach events on college campuses.

• Community partners I'd like to collaborate with include the city and county health departments, nonprofits such as Bee Busy, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), Legacy Health, and university-supported prevention and intervention programs such as UTHealth's Own Every Piece.

• Health condition: unplanned pregnancy

• Initial study aim(s): Reduce rates of unplanned pregnancy, increase use of emergency contraception, increase use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptions (LARCs)

Community of interest (geographically defined; consider also other conceptualizations of community such as community of shared interest where you can reach your priority population- e.g., workplace).

• First-generation college students in El Paso, TX

Potential community partners for your planning group (what organizations would you partner with? Consider “Linkage System Concept”: Resource group, potential implementers, priority population

• University of Texas at El Paso (RG, I, PP)

• El Paso Community College  (RG, I, PP)

• City of El Paso Department of Public Health (RG, I)

• El Paso County (RG, I)

1. Expanding Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) access and use among Mexican-American Women residing in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV).

2. Mexican-American women residing in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and served by FQHCs. The low PrEP use rate among Hispanic women, coupled with the lack of data on the use among Hispanic women living in the LRGV, underscore the urgent need for targeted interventions that improve PrEP access and knowledge and remove socio-cultural barriers. Previous intervention studies have focused on gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) groups, even in some cases Hispanics, yet not Hispanic women^[i]. There is limited research focused on behavioral interventions that promote PrEP uptake among Hispanic cisgender women in the U.S.

   
   

3. Various organizations can serve as partners, but the biggest partners will be FQHCs in the LRGV, Valley Aids, and the various county health departments.

4. I am still reviewing the details of what the program will cover. I am debating whether I want to evaluate an intervention or a needs assessment to identify strategies to implement a health education campaign, etc.

   
   

   If I do a needs assessment, I will consider identifying the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to PrEP among Mexican-American women in the LRGV. Some items the needs assessment will address are awareness of PrEP, perceived risk of HIV, access to healthcare, potential barriers to using PrEP, and the level of support needed to facilitate its uptake, particularly among high-risk individuals like those with multiple sexual partners or engaging in high-risk sexual behaviors. Assessing language preference too, and other cultural/social constructs relevant that can impact PrEP use, reception etc.,

   What are the best ways to reach this population? Including communication channels. What do we need to know that can help us design the intervention.