The Education Services Division facilitated over
250 individual programs in 2001 to include special events, a wide range of
prevention-based program and services and other initiatives directed at
improving heart health.
Certified Culinary Arts Professional and author of the recently released
Betty Crocker's Indian Home Cooking cookbook, Raghavan Iyer presents one of many
favorite low-fat entrees demonstrated at the Foundation’s A Season For Heart
Health cooking program. |
Also, as a partnering organization, we continued to seek new opportunities to
promote the health of diverse populations through collaboration and resource
sharing. To summarize, the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation (MHIF)
coordinated three special events in 2001. The In Touch With Heart Health
community-wide screening and education program, the Annual Spring Prevention
Program and a heart-healthy cooking demonstration workshop titled A Season for
Heart Health. Our community programs and services, which include health
screenings, topic presentations, interactive displays and health education
classes/seminars, were delivered through schools, worksites and other locations
statewide. We reach tens of thousands of Minnesotans with our prevention
message. The HiTECH Hearts program, our main school-based initiative, visited
more than 125 Minnesota schoolsites and reached over 10,000 4th grade students
in 2001.
A MHIF HiTECH Heart program facilitator educates 4th grade students at a
Minneapolis school on the heart, how it works, and on making heart healthy
choices for life. |
With the addition of a second heart model and vehicle through a generous
donation from Great River Energy, this program is projected to reach over 200
schools in 2002 and has quickly become our most active program area. Worksites
continue to serve as a valuable environment to deliver an important prevention
message to established audiences and we maintain a growing list of corporations
annually benefiting from our services. Also, our programming takes us to a
variety of other community sites throughout the state, to include faith
communities, providing us with additional opportunities for heart disease
prevention education. Finally, the Foundation continues to depend on its many
established community partnerships as vehicles to influence high-risk behaviors
among targeted audiences.
As one example, the Foundation partnered with the Minnesota Department
of Health and the Minnesota Council on Pysical Activity and Sports in 2001 in
the development of a freestanding nonprofit organization, Be Active Minnesota.
It was established to improve the wellbeing of Minnesotans through the support
and promotion of physical activity recognizing that physical inactivity is a
significant influence in the development of heart disease.
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