Keiki Heroes is a community empowerment initiative that provides Hawaiʻi’s keiki (children) with fun and engaging ways to develop healthy habits and stay safe. Keiki Heroes has created and printed activity and coloring books for keiki across Hawaiʻi. This session will describe the process of creating the books and how they are disseminated widely through community partners and events. A most recent activity book on eye health was created in partnership with a community organization and translated into languages other than English.
Presenter:
Dr. May Rose Dela Cruz is the Director of Community Health Research at the Hawai‘i Public Health Institute and Associate Researcher at the University of Hawai‘i’s (UH) Department of Public Health Sciences (Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health). Her research is rooted in Community-Based Participatory Research and her interests involve tobacco and underage drinking prevention, providing appropriate community health materials, and improving health outcomes of Filipinos.
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- Describe how to partner with a community organization to create a health education material for children.
- Identify the process to translate health materials and create them to be culturally appropriate.
- Describe the various ways the health materials could be utilized in different community settings.