This partnership aims to understand functional health literacy and its implications for disease prevention, management and health disparities.
Communities Involved
African-American and Hispanic adolescents 14-17 years of age living in eastside and southwest Detroit.
Partners
- Detroit REACH Partnership
- Akebu-lan Village
- Community Health and Social Service Center, Inc.(CHASS)
- Communities in Schools (CIS)
- Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation (DHDC)
- Friends of Parkside
- Henry Ford Health System
- Latino Family Services
- Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion
- UM School of Public Health
Current Project
- Youth Health Promotion Challenge Adolescent Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Program (2009-current): This pilot project aims to assess the effectiveness of an interactive intervention in producing outcomes related to the prevention of type 2 diabetes in an at-risk adolescent population and to identify through process and context evaluation the factors that facilitate or hinder the implementation of a community-based intervention to increase adolescent functional literacy regarding diabetes prevention.