Bless Your Heart
Faith communities in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee have access to the resource that can help keep their members healthy. Houses of worship and faith-based organizations in the region can use the free “Bless Your Heart” toolkit to create and improve health ministries.
The Bless Your Heart toolkit is available online as a free download to support the Million Hearts® initiative. The initiative’s goal is to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes by the year 2017. It’s just one strategy atom Alliance uses to ignite powerful change in healthcare quality.
The toolkit includes:
- step-by-step implementation guide
- congregational survey
- Million Hearts fact sheets
- list of electronic resources
- bulletin inserts
- “how to” guides for establishing a garden or planning a successful health fair and
- articles on creating a healthy plate, reducing salt and sodium and the power of positive thinking & prayer.
atom Alliance is available to provide technical assistance to faith-based communities on how to implement elements of the toolkit and improve members’ cardiac health by promoting the appropriate use of the “ABCS – Aspirin therapy, Blood pressure control, Cholesterol management and Stopping smoking.
