Community/Academic Partnership to Increase Activity in Youth and their Families

 描述（由申请人提供）：在费城，超重、肥胖和严重肥胖的比例高得令人无法接受，严重影响着年轻、低收入的非洲裔美国人。在西费城，一个人口主要是非洲裔美国人的地区，贫困率是全国最高的，并有一个承诺区指定; 43%的社区是肥胖的。在费城，五分之一的年轻人根本不参加任何体育活动。研究表明，家庭一级的干预措施对提高非洲裔美国青年的干预效果具有积极的调节作用。包括两代和三代人的方法不仅有望增加干预措施对个人参与者的健康影响，而且还将影响整个家庭的健康结果。因此，建立在宾夕法尼亚大学（宾夕法尼亚大学）与费城学校作为家庭和社区中心的长期合作伙伴关系的基础上，我们提出了一种代际方法，为费城西部的年轻人及其家庭增加方便，安全，愉快和可持续的体育活动。我们的具体目标如下：具体目标1：确定与体育活动相关的兴趣、目标、优先事项和障碍-与青少年及其家人召开焦点小组会议;这些焦点小组将得到宾夕法尼亚大学学术社区服务课程的支持。具体目标二：对体育活动干预措施的现状进行编目，分享计划改进、协作和新活动的想法和愿景。确定一组不同的利益相关者，以确定当前活动计划的优势和障碍，然后制定可能的行动计划，以增加活动。次级目标2A-邀请主要利益相关者群体的代表加入社区咨询委员会。次级目标2B将导致拟定一份谅解备忘录。在具体目标3中，我们将召开一次研讨会和一次会议，由学区领导人，社区组织，研究人员提出，并由广泛多样的主要利益相关者参加，以审查可能的行动计划，并制定健康差距研究和行动议程，以支持进一步发展和实施选定的行动计划向前迈进。具体目标4将侧重于经常宣传和健康教育。子目标4A-制定一项CBPR提案，重点是增加青少年及其家庭的活动并改善其健康状况。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There are unacceptably high rates of overweight, obesity and severe obesity that disparately affect young, low-income, African Americans in the city of Philadelphia. In West Philadelphia, an area with a population that is largely African American and with poverty rate among the highest in the country and having a Promise Zone designation; 43% of the community is obese. One out of five youth in Philadelphia perform no physical activity at all. Research has demonstrated the positive moderating effect of family-level interventions to increase intervention efficacy with African American youth. Approaches that incorporate two and three generations hold promise not only to increase the interventions health impacts on individual participants, but also to influence health outcomes for entire families. Therefore, building on the University of Pennsylvania's (Penn's) longstanding partnerships with the Philadelphia schools as family and community hubs, we propose a intergenerational approach to increasing easily accessible, safe, enjoyable and sustainable physical activity for youth and their families in West Philadelphia. Our specific aims are as follows: Specific Aim 1: Identify interest, goals, priorities and barriers related to physical activity- Convene focus group with youth and their families; these focus groups will be supported by Penn's Academically Based Community Service Courses. Specific Aim 2: Catalog the current state of physical activity interventions, share ideas and vision for program improvements, collaboration and new activities. Identify a group of diverse stakeholders to identify strengths and barriers to current activity programs, and then develop possible action plans that would increase activity. Sub aim-2A- Representatives from the key stakeholder group will be invited to join a Community Advisory Board (CAB). Sub aim 2B will result in the development of an MOU. In Specific Aim 3 we will convene a seminar and a conference, presented by School District leaders, community organizations, researchers and attended by a broadly diverse group of key stakeholders to review possible action plans and develop a health disparity research and action agenda that will support further development and implementation of action plans selected to move forward. Specific Aim 4 will focus on frequent dissemination and health education. Sub Aim 4A- Develop a CBPR proposal focused on increasing activity and improving health outcomes in youth and their families.