Faith communities in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee now have access to a new resource to help keep their members healthy. Houses of worship and faith-based organizations in the region may use the free “Bless Your Heart” toolkit to create and improve health ministries.
atom Alliance, a five-state initiative to ignite powerful and sustainable change in healthcare quality, offers the toolkit online as a free download to support the Million Hearts® initiative. That initiative’s goal is to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes by the year 2017.

The toolkit, which is modeled after a successful resource developed in Arkansas, 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, 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 staff are available to provide technical assistance to churches, synagogues and mosques 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
• Stopping smoking

Bless Your Heart Toolkit

Preview: Bless Your Heart Toolkit
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10.09 MB | Last Updated: May 29, 2015

To get your free toolkit visit http://atomalliance.org/download/bless-your-heart-toolkit/