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The Steps to a HealthierUS five-year cooperative agreement program aims to help Americans live longer, better, and healthier lives by reducing the burden of diabetes, overweight, obesity, and asthma and addressing three related risk factors—physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and tobacco use. For FY 2003, this U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) program allocated $13.6 million to fund 23 communities, including New Orleans, to implement community action plans to reduce health disparities and promote quality health care and prevention services. Project Area City of New Orleans (population 485,000). Target Population for Steps Interventions Low-income city residents, particularly African Americans. Proposed Intervention Media Policy and Environmental Changes School-Based Community-Based Health Care Evaluation HHS will provide training and technical assistance to help each Steps community develop measurable program objectives and specific indicators of progress and use relevant data to support ongoing program improvement. HHS also will conduct a national evaluation of the overall program. Existing data sources, such as the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, will be used to identify and measure program outcomes and assess progress toward program goals. Community Consortium New Orleans Health Department, Mayor’s Office of Health Policy, Lousiana Public Health Institute, Tulane University, Louisiana State University, Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans, Louisiana Council on Obesity Prevention and Management, EXCELth, Healthy Lifestyle Choices, Baptist Community Ministries, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, Black Women’s Health Project of Louisiana, and New Orleans Public Schools. New Orleans Steps Contacts Kevin Stephens, MD, JD Joseph Kimbrell, MSW Thomas Farley, MD, MPH Note: Steps communities have until May 2004 to finalize their community action plans. Proposed interventions may change accordingly. Return to Grantee List |