2006 Summer Update

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Using Pocket Trackers in the Colorado Small Steps
to Health and WealthRural Pilot Program

• 2011 Mary ONeill Financial Education Mini-Grant
  Recipient
• Nancy Porter, Financial Resource Management
  Specialist
• Colorado State University Extension, Fort Collins
  
• Laurel Kubin, Larimer County Director, FCS Agent
• Colorado State University Extension, Fort Collins
  

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Small Steps to Health and WealthRural Pilot
Program

• Use the original SSHWTM materials
• developed by Rutgers and others
• Update and adapt to Colorado needs
• Enhance the nutrition components
• Enhance with social media
• videos, and podcasts
• Evaluate program effectiveness

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Funding

• The project is supported by 136,095 Rural Health
  and Safety Education Competitive Program of the
  USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
  (NIFA) Grant Number 2011-46100-31139

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Objectives

• Provide timely, quality education for diverse
• populations in rural areas of Colorado
• Provide health information with activities and
  resources
• Provide financial information and wealth
  promoting
• activities
• Emphasize the connections between wealth and
  health, increasing knowledge and positive
  behavior changes

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Program Delivery

• Focus on rural communities
• Fewer health care and employment options
• High numbers of uninsured or underinsured
• Higher than state average for obesity
• (25 vs 19.1 in CO)
• Higher percentage of chronic disease than state
  average
• Lower average wages
• Higher cost borrowing methods
• Lower financial literacy (FINRA, 2011)

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Program Delivery

• ? Face-to-Face workshops
• ? Flexible formats
• One 1-hour worksite program
• One 2-hour workshop
• Series of three 2-hour workshops
• ? Partner with agencies, organizations, and
• employers to expand outreach

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Delivery Goals

• Conduct 50 workshops
• Supplement workshops with online resources
• Reach 1000 participants representing diverse
• populations in 20 rural counties

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• Worksite Workshop Content
• Compare Yourself with Recommended Benchmarks
• Track Your Current Behavior
• Convert Consumption into Labor
• Make Progress Every Day

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• Workshop 1 Where Am I Now?
• Compare Yourself with Recommended Benchmarks
• Track Your Current Behavior
• Convert Consumption into Labor
• Step Down/Step Up to Change

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• Workshop 1 Where Am I Now?
• Understand relationship between health habits and
  
• wealth habits.
• Become familiar with common recommendation for
  healthy eating, physical activity, and spending
  habits.
• Review eating and spending habits for last 24
  hours and compare to benchmarks.
• Learn how consumption can be balanced by labor.
• Explore ways to take small steps to improve
  behaviors.
• Establish specific health and wealth goals.

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Workshop 2 Finding Balance

• Use Easy Frames of Reference
• Say No to Super-Sizing
• Live The Power of 10
• Think Balance Not Sacrifice

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Workshop 2 Finding Balance

• Learn simple and easy strategies to personalize
• health/wealth frames of reference for
  positive
• behavior change.
• Understand hazards of super-sized eating and
• super-sized spending.
• Use number 10 to make small steps in
• health/wealth behavior changes to gain
  significant
• long-term impact.
• Learn to balance intake and outgo with both
  human
• energy and money.

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Workshop 3 The Past, the Present, the
Future

• Consider Outside Influences on Health and Wealth
• Get Help and Be Accountable
• Automate Good Habits and Create Templates
• Set a Date and Get StartedJust Do It!

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Workshop 3 The Past, the Present, the
Future

• Consider outside influences or beliefs which may
• sabotage making positive behavior changes.
• Become familiar with resources for support and
• accountability.
• Understand value of automated behaviors to
  achieve
• health/wealth goals.
• Understand importance of setting a realistic
  start date.
• Begin small steps towards achieving
  health/wealth
• goals.

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Evaluation

• 50 of participants will
• Increase knowledge of health and wealth literacy
• Change their attitudes and increase
  confidence in
• about health and financial management
• Gain skills to make changes in health and
  wealth behaviors

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Program Data

• 204 participants in 12 counties (as of June 2012)
  
• 127 - Worksite Programs
• 50 - One Session
• 15 - Two Sessions
• 12 - Three Sessions
• 164 consented to complete follow-up survey
• 67 completed 42.4 response rate (as of
  August 2012)
• 68.7 women
• 88.7 Caucasian
• 75.9 lived with spouse or partner
• 43.1 had children under 18
  living in household
• 27.6 had other adults over 18
  living in household

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Watch Our Progress

• Web site
• www.ext.colostate.edu/smallsteps
• Small Steps to Health and Wealth
• Facebook
• Twitter _at_SSHWColorado
• Pinterest

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For More Information
Nancy Porter 970-491-6603 nancy.porter_at_colostate.e
du Laurel Kubin 970-498-6004 kubinl_at_co.larimer.c
o.us