Progress 09/01/10 to 08/31/11
Outputs
The vision of the Fort Peck Community College Wellness Centers is to inspire the Native American community to embrace and encourage a holistic model of healthy lifestyles, through physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. In the beginning, project staff developed a three hour educational program to promote healthier lifestyles. The development of the curriculum brought staff with up to date information on nutrition, furthermore, staff developed competencies for curriculum development at Fort Peck Community College. With completion of the curriculum, project staff delivered the curriculum as part of Elder Day. Curriculum during elder day was conducted in 30 min session with a 5 minute discussion proceeding each 30 minute session. In addition to curriculum development and delivery, the Fort Peck Community College Wellness Center promoted health and wellness activities on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Project staff participated in various activities to promote healthy lifestyles. More notable, Fort Peck Community College has been influential for people wishing to participate in a weight loss program, including youth on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. PRODUCTS: The FPCC Wellness Center's Health, Diet, and Nutrition project served the community as a rewarding success. The project increased awareness of proper nutrition, motivated numerous community members to achieve weight loss goals and promoted the importance of healthy lifestyles. OUTCOMES: Through curriculum delivery, the Wellness Centers had 254 active elders in the program. In the end, the Fort Peck Community College had a total of 10,232 elder visits from September 1, 2010 to August 31, 2011 or 15 % of the total visits. 1,051 participants received information related to health topics including, fruit and veggies month, head lice prevention, diabetes, and all other nation recognized days for healthy behaviors. Astoundingly, the adult cohort in the weight loss program had great successes including, one participant lost 10 pant sizes, two male participants lost all but 3% of their body fat and gained muscle mass, one male diabetic participant lost 137 points and is no longer taking medication, one male participant from the previous grant award maintained his weight for the year, out of 100 participants, 38% lost more 10% of the target goals. Notably, the cohort weight in at 18, 210.6 lbs and ended the year with 15,831.2 points. The youth cohort of 50 lost 10% of their weight through exercise and nutritional activities. DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES: Programs were implemented to assist in reaching the vision of this program which include: curriculum development and delivery during Elder fitness and aerobics, interval training, diabetic hour, youg, Biggest Loser contest, Reservation wide loser contest, FPCC Wellness Centers weight loss contest, Step aerobics, Boot camp, Interval training-treadmill/elliptical, Circuit training, Cardio plus (Northside basketball open gym), Body sculpting, Basic weightlifting, Walking and Running clubs, Senior fitness, Special populations, Yoga, Chair aerobics, Reservation fun run/walks, Relay races -swim, bike, run, Human Stampede run/walk, Roosevelt County run/walk, Resist-a-band exercise, Strength training, Core exercise, Stretching-total body, Sauna, Water aerobics, and Personal training. Those who utilize the wellness center were also shown how to use physical activity in moderate to high levels, nutrition-healthy cooking, shopping to eat right, portion control, foot care-proper shoe selection, healthy cooking, strategic shopping for a balanced diet, weight loss strategies without drugs, a budget in their meal planning, and knowledge of the digestive process to plan diets that include all food groups. Community Project activities include held in partnership with the Fort Peck Community College Wellness Centers included: basketball, horseshoes, scooter races, arts and crafts, guitar lessons, Spanish lessons, football, proper weightlifting techniques, volleyball, kickboxing, PACE, jump roping, basketball tournaments, fun run/walks, cross country, youth running camp, nutrition presentations, reservation health fairs, youth fitness, hip hop dance, fishing camp for kids, medicinal presentation, personal training. FUTURE INITIATIVES: The Fort Peck Community College Wolf Point Wellness Center staff and volunteers will continue to provide and instill healthy lifestyles to the members of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and surrounding communities.
Impacts
Programs designed for advancing and promoting improved health have been part of institutional planning for the past ten years, and are a major part of the five-year strategic plan for Fort Peck Community College. The development and implementation of this program was based on data and results produced throughout other wellness projects managed by Fort Peck Community College. This program provided the basis for outreach programs that will be continuous, as FPCC continues to develop the institutional capacity to enable individuals from reservation communities to adopt health behaviors that improve their health outcomes. More importantly, this program was influential to people who in the end have increased their life expectancy.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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