Programs

Who’s it for? Teens and adults who want to learn about health in the community and how to help improve it.

Health is Happenin’ RAP Sessions are a series of 8 meetings about health topics relevant to YOU and  YOUR community! These topics include wellness; chronic diseases such as heart disease, asthma, and diabetes; nutrition and lifestyle; genetics; and environmental health. Participants learn through stories co-developed by community members. Sessions offer hands-on experiences to make learning fun and interactive!

• Get Set Day: Enjoy a meal, answer some questions to help us learn how well the project works, get to know the digital tablets you’ll use.
• The 6 RAP Sessions: Health and science learning and activities with food, fun, and comic stories!
• RAP It Up Day: Bring friends and family to enjoy a meal and share what you’ve learned!

• How to promote wellness in daily life
• How genes, environment, and lifestyle affect the change of getting chronic diseases
• How food and nutrition can reduce the symptoms of chronic disease

See current Health is Happenin’ RAP session offerings at Events

Who’s it for? Teens and adults who want to learn about being citizen scientists in the community.

Citizen Science (CS) RAP Sessions are a series of eight meetings to learn how to be a citizen scientist. Citizen Science RAP graduates can work alongside health professionals at our community health fairs to collect attendees’ health information or to make observations using our Eyewitness Community Survey. Those who have their own community health questions can apply for our micro-grants to design and implement studies of their own to answer their questions.

You will learn

• What is citizen science?
• What qualities does a good citizen science health research project have?
• What rights do research subjects have in health research projects?
• What should we do with the results of a health research project?

In each session, comic-style stories set the stage for health research topics that follow. Participants do a variety of activities to learn about each topic.

See current Citizen Science RAP session offerings at Events

Who’s it for? Anyone middle school age on up who enjoys using a smart phone and wants to experience research firsthand as a citizen scientist!

In Eyewitness Community Surveys, participants collect information about their local environment and its effects on community health as trained citizen scientists. Participants will walk their communities and make observations. Photos will also be collected and mapped. All volunteers need is a 15-minute on-line training, and they’re ready to go! We encourage groups of friends to work together!

Who’s it for? Family-friendly fun for community members of all ages!

RAP for Community Health (health fair) events will offer health screenings, health resources, and family-friendly, health-related food and entertainment. Citizen scientists will also collect community health data to support future community studies and programs. Attendees data will be collected via a health passport tool (with no names or other identifiers) and shared to be used as a health data resource to support future programming and evaluate the events’ success over time. Partnering community organizations will be asked what health screenings and information they would like to see at their health fair, and appropriate providers will be invited.

See current community health event offerings at Events

Who’s it for? We Engage 4 Health graduates with research questions of their own.