Our Health outreach Work

Extension Collaboration on Immunization Teaching and Engagement (EXCITE)

The EXCITE partnership long-term goal is to strengthen immunization education, with a focus on adult vaccination hesitancy around both COVID-19 and other vaccines. It is a partnership with Extension and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention.

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GROW Healthy Kids and Communities

Generating Rural Options for Weight (GROW) Healthy Kids and Communities was an integrated research, education, and Extension program to inspire communities, schools, and families to create environments that make it easy for children to eat healthfully and be physically active.

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HEAL MAPPS™

HEAL MAPPS™ helps community stakeholders document people’s experience of place with respect to supports and barriers for habitual healthy eating and physical activity.

Deborah John | Project

Rural Community Food & Physical Activity Environment Audit (R-CFPA)

We engage people in the communities we serve in assessing the conditions that most affect them where they live, work, learn, and play. We do this to learn what will work best to improve weight healthy behaviors for children and families, and food and physical activity resources in the community.

Deborah John | Project

School Physical Activity and Nutrition Environment Tool (SPAN-ET)

The School Physical Activity and Nutrition Environment Tool (SPAN-ET) was developed to assess school resources and readiness to improve nutrition and physical activity environments, suggest appropriate improvement strategies, and score impacts resulting from environmentally-based treatments.

Deborah John | Project