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      With Every Heartbeat Is Life: Community Health Worker Resources for African Americans
        
            With Every Heartbeat Is Life is a resource for community health workers in African American communities that provides culturally-tailored information and materials on heart disease prevention.
      
                          Last updated May 23, 2023
This online toolkit provides everything needed to conduct training for community health workers, implement *With Every Heartbeat Is Life* in the community, and promote it.
  With Every Heartbeat Is Life: A Community Health Worker’s Manual on Heart Disease for African Americans

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This 12-session course on heart health created for the African American community includes interactive activities and handouts.With Every Heartbeat Is Life: A Community Health Worker’s Manual on Heart Disease for African AmericansDownload the individual With Every Heartbeat Is Life sessions here.
    
          With Every Heartbeat Is Life: Picture Cards for Community Health Workers

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This slide presentation (also available as a flipchart) with illustrated pages is an excellent teaching tool to help reinforce key heart health prevention messages within the *With Every Heartbeat Is Life* manual. It is designed to be used with the community health worker manual; but can also be used alone for presentations on heart health in the community.Picture Cards PowerPointPicture Cards PDF
  Promotional Materials

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Use these materials to promote the With Every Heartbeat Is Life sessions to your community.Customizable FlyerSocial Media ResourcesTemplate Emails (Downloadable file)Sample Newsletter Drop-In Article/Blog Post (Downloadable file)
    
          Additional Heart Health Materials

            WEHL Recipe Book

Share these materials with your African American community as supplementary take home resources.Heart-Healthy Home Cooking African American Style Recipe BookOn the Move to Better Heart Health for African Americans
  Additional Complementary Resources

            These additional resources may be helpful to complement the sessions you are teaching:Heart Smart Basics: What to Know to Keep Yours Healthy Fact SheetSelf-Measured Blood Pressure Fact SheetAre You at a Healthy Weight? Fact SheetCholesterol & Your Heart: What You Need to Know Fact SheetMove More Fact SheetKnow the Difference Fact SheetDASH Eating PlanTaking Care of our Hearts, TogetherFind more resourcesAdditional information and other resources from *The Heart Truth*® can be found on the community health workers page.
  **African Americans are disproportionately affected by other diseases as well. You may find these additional resources helpful in your outreach.**Sickle Cell Disease ResourcesWhat Is Sarcoidosis? Fact SheetAsthma in the Black Community Fact SheetAsthma in Our Communities InfographicFacts About Peripheral Artery Disease (P.A.D.) for African Americans Fact Sheet Back To Top Link
  

        

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