Blog post can be found here.

Why: To provide FreshRx program participants with options to access quality local fresh fruits and vegetables after participating in the program, and respond to community members request to see more farmers market and local fresh produce.

Committee Partners Involved: Community Action Committee

Time Commitment: 7 hrs = 5 (dvlpt) + 2 (annual update)

Cost: Website Cost about $216 annually

Evaluation Tools: Website Analytics (Shares + Views)

Progress: 2 Partners + Newsletter and 273 views

Results: More community members eating fruits and vegetables

Sustainability Ideas: What partner would update the listing annually? Important to keep in mind, that CSAs and local produce are expensive, even with SNAP sometimes. Some partners would like to see a focus on teaching people how to shop for affordable produce at grocery stores. What partners are working to make sure more Farmers Markets (and vendors) accept SNAP and FAB?

Learn more about our 2021 Group at www.healthierjupiter.org/recent-news/food-system-racism-challenge-join-healthier-jupiter. Urban Health Partnerships received grant funding in 2022 to develop content related to the challenge. Check out their social media.

Why: Our community has experience with racial equity training through the Racial Equity Institute trainings. This would give community members the opportunity to dive deeper into racial equity from a food perspective, which is an area Healthier Jupiter and many community partners work in.

Committee Partners Involved: University of Central Florida Master’s Student, Urban Health Partnerships

Time Commitment: 26 hours, Planning and Outreach (3 hours), Meetings (3 meetings x 1 hour), Reading/Challenge participation (21 hours)

Cost: $0, Staff Time, Funded facilitation at $2,500 (original request $5,000)

Evaluation Tools: Participation Rates

Progress: 2021 Participation (5 participants)

Results: Strategies identified to improve justice in the food system

Sustainability: Urban Health Partnerships applied for a facilitation grant in 2022 to develop south florida related content for the challenge. In the future they plan to use this content to engage partners to participate more actively in the challenge and integrate the learnings into year round operations. What other Palm Beach County based partners may be interested in joining this challenge/learning opportunity? Really important goal is to identify food security partners are trained + offered racial equity trainings.

More details can be found at healthierjupiter.org/food-health

How + Why: There are a partners in our community doing food security and nutrition education, especially around healthy food access. So our partners have been discussing the following questions and we sought from community partners the answers: How do we ensure that partners aren’t working in silos, duplicating services and/or providing fragmented services? Is there a collective vision for healthy food access in Jupiter? Are partners competing for the same food security grants? Do partners know what each other are doing? How can we localize county wide hunger relief plans to Jupiter neighborhoods? Additionally, we have thought through what collective support we could give to partners working on nutrition education and food security, while encouraging Policy, System and Environment changes.

Committee Partners Involved: Food | Health Workgroup, University of Central Florida Master’s Level Student

Time Commitment (per month): 15 hours - Weekly Co-Chair Meetings (5 hours), Workgroup Meetings (5 hours), Partner Meetings + Community Outreach (5 hours)

Cost: Staff Time and other activities TBD

Evaluation Tools: TBD

Progress: Reached out to 40+ local partners, 15 partners joined workgroup. Workgroup is unpacking Jupiter’s local food system.

Results: Vision and activities identified by community members. Stronger network of healthy food provers. More community members eating healthy foods. Promote and ensure access to healthy eating.

Sustainability: Partners have mentioned they want to know from community members how they hear about food resources, learn about nutrition, and understand shopping habits. What innovative ways can we include community members voice into this work (how can we pay community members to collect data). Who could/would take over coordination of food security efforts in Jupiter? Does our community need a healthy food assessment? How can we integrate Jupiter food advocates into county level conversations. What

You can learn more about FreshRx and their Farm to Hospital Program at www.freshrx.org

Why: With experience coordinating a community based Food is Medicine Program with Living Hungry Coalition, Healthier Jupiter was approached by JMC leadership and Dr. Marshall Stone (FreshRx Co-Founder) to pilot FreshRx Farm to Hospital at Jupiter Medical Center. In year 1 we saw community support, and changes in participants’ health. FreshRx funds the program.

Committee Partners Involved: FreshRx Committee made up of FreshRx Staff, and JMC Oncology Department, Case Management, and Dietetics

Time Commitment: 25 hours a month. Meetings (2 hours), Data Analysis (6 hours), Outreach (5 hours), Enrollment (3 hours), Distribution (4 hours), Newsletter + Blog (3 hours), Intern Management (2 hours)

Cost: Staff time (listed above). From Healthier Jupiter, we occasionally help with printing and incentives (about $300/year)

Evaluation Tools: Surveys, Excel

Progress: Participant Enrollment (#), 10-15 Committee Members

Results: Participants reported more than 50% increase in fruit and vegetable consumption

Sustainability: Healthier Jupiter will write up lessons learned and processes involved in FreshRx. FreshRx most likely will distribute responsibilities to current staff. How can community partners assist the Food is Medicine participants beyond the 16 weeks to continue to access fruits and vegetables. Can Food is Medicine expand to other diagnosis and groups in our community? Explore Jupiter Medical Center’s role when Healthier Jupiter transitions.

You can find additional details at healthierjupiter.org/jupiter-food-map

How + Why: Reviewing early year programmatic strategies, community members requested a resource guide of healthy resources including healthy food in Jupiter. Previous guides developed by Healthier Jupiter have not focused on healthy food access. Healthier Jupiter’s Community Action Committee came together to think this through and came up with the idea of a Food Resource Guide. We were inspired by a few other guides from New York City and Sommerville, Massachusetts. The need for this guide was exacerbated by COVID-19. Rather than create our own guide, we partnered with United Way Hunger Relief to create a Food Finder Map for Jupiter to be housed on our website, and include links to other content for healthy food access in Jupiter.

Committee Partners Involved: United Way Hunger Relief, Healthier Jupiter’s Community Action Committee

Time Commitment: Review with Committee (3 hours), Web Page Creation (4 hours), Update Annually (1 hour),

Cost: Graphic Design Support, Website Costs

Evaluation Tools: Website Views

Progress: 202 View

Results: Help community members locate food resources

Sustainability: Potential for high impact, but needs the marketing push. What additional partners can put this on their website? Town of Jupiter was mentioned. We created a flyer that could be downloaded and printed for a rackcard.

For more details about Palm Beach County Food Bank’s Benefit Outreach Program please visit pbcfoodbank.org/apply-for-snap

How + Why: During the COVID-19 pandemic committee members from the FreshRx Committee wanted to reduce barriers to accessing resources in Jupiter by co-locating a benefit outreach specialist onsite at Jupiter Medical Center, especially for immune compromised patients. The goal was to achieve the first hospital to locate a Palm Beach County Food Bank Benefit Outreach Specialist onsite. From discussions with Jupiter Medical Center team members, rather than start with a benefit outreach specialist on site and send patients over that may not qualify, we could educate team members about SNAP eligibility. The goal was to put this on healthstream (hospital online training program) as a optional education. This would better prepare team members to know if someone is eligible to save the time of patients of PBC Food Bank Staff.

Partners Involved: FreshRx Committee, Palm Beach County Food Bank

Time Commitment: Coordination (5 hours) + tbd after implementation

Cost: $0

Evaluation: Video views and referrals

Progress: Buy in from team members, Draft presentation created by PBC Food Bank benefit Outreach Team

Results: SNAP benefit enrollment increased in Jupiter. Community members, especially patients at Jupiter Medical Center, would have increased access to SNAP benefits. To promote and ensure opportunities for healthy eating.

Fresh Access Bucks is a nutrition incentive program that increases the purchasing power of SNAP recipients to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. Most programs work either through a buy one get one free model, or discounted at 50% off. Feeding Florida leads the Fresh Access Bucks program and is always willing to share knowledge and best practices. We linked them to FreshRx and United Farmers Alliance., both of which now accept SNAP and Fresh Access Bucks. Would like to see smaller grocery stores in Jupiter be included in the expansion, as well as more farmers market vendors to accept SNAP/FAB, if the whole market isn’t ready to accept.

What partners in Palm Beach County are working on this that would be interested in following the momentum in Jupiter? May be useful to identify target population and understand current data (potential market). Where are most people shopping?

How can we partner with Health Council of Southeast Florida. In previous meetings we learned they can track environmental indicators for food (Retail food, access to grocery stores, farmers markets, fast food density, congregate feeding sites, SNAP utilization). The Palm Beach County Office of Resiliency has done similar projects on municipal codes that do/do not allow solar, could a similar guide be created around healthy food access. Would need to work closely and understand HOAs. What current partners may be interested in this capacity building opportunity?

Identified in the early years as a programmatic strategy. We have heard it requested at county level discussions as well. Reach out to partners to see what support they would want. What support could other county wide partners offer like United Way Hunger Relief, American Heart Association or United Farmers Alliance? Explore the food in public places and urban gardening codes model.

Suggested Partners to include: El Sol, Abacoa Community Garden, Edna Runner Tutorial Center, Nourishing Food for Thought

Learn more about the Water Bottle Refill Station at Jerry Thomas Elementary School. Other local elemenatary schools applied for a grant for water bottle refill stations, but were not awarded. There seems to be interest from local schools in this to promote students and staff drinking more water, and helping to achieve “Green” Awards to show the school cares about environmental sustainability. Additionally, water bottle refill stations could be promoted in other high trafficked areas, especially to reduce dehydration and promote more water drinking in the community.

Communities need environments that enable them to make healthy choices, safely, and conveniently. A community tool was created to assess the built environment around/near the grocery store where community members primarily do their shopping. Working with Urban Health Partnerships to create a reporting tool and feedback loop opportunity. Would like to pilot more FoodScape Walk Audits in the Jupiter community in other areas/neighborhoods.

Would need to conduct outreach to both smaller and larger pantry partners in the community. We regularly share healthy eating and active living opportunities and ways to get more involved with our mini-grant network through a monthly mini-grant network update email. Could start easy with giving all food distribution partners our Get Fit Maps. We need to ask, do food distribution partners (and patrons) want additional resources? We can conduct a short survey to test the idea for a health hub.

Discussed at a Steering Committee meeting, where a partner shared a story about unhealthy food donations. And Jupiter Medical Center Oncology Nutrition was interested in creating a healthy donation guide for their cancer emergency food pantry.

American Heart Association is helping food pantries with Policy System and Environment Changes and healthy food donation policies. Community education could be a great marketing opportunity. Could we get a grocery store partner?

Healthier Jupiter partnered with Jupiter Middle School’s Culinary Program on a Food Rescue and Distribution project. From there we realized the importance of rescuing foods from local grocery stores and distributing to the community. There could be partnerships as well with local restaurants, catering companies, event spaces, or senior living facilities. How does reducing food waste cut grocery costs. Could we create posters, add additional partners, and/or a cooking series. Additional partners could include food waste partners, such as Let It Rot. Possible guidance could come from USDA.

All partners listed above were involved in the content creation, a flyer to be distributed to community members. However, never followed up with community partners on the success of distribution and if it resulted in any home visits.

You can view the flyer here.

Healthier Jupiter was approached by El Sol in our early years to assist in funding a salaried position of a garden coordinator at El Sol. Working with Palm Health Foundation we were able to fund the coordinator position, and have over the years reduced the amount of funding contributed to the salaried position.

The consultant suggested utilize a tool called the “Healthy Eating Worksheet”. The recommended steps included:

1) Define the boundaries of the geographic area by street

2) Recruit volunteers, including community members to collect data

3) Provide a training on how to complete the forms

4) Pick a time frame to conduct the assessment

5) Conduct the assessment

6) Analyze the results. After we analyzed the results we could identify action steps to change the current situation. This tool could have been expanded to physical fitness as well.

Did not conduct study, but a graduate student conducted a Nutrition Environment Assessment Tool study. Is this policy base line study a tool or data collection opportunity we want to explore again?

The Cancer Emergency Food Pantry at Jupiter Medical Center Anderson Cancer Institute was proposed as part of the hospitals cancer accreditation. Assisted with partner connections, sourcing, drafting proposal, and navigating compliance. Partners that were approached include PBC Food Bank and CROS Ministries. The goal was that if it was successful within the oncology department it could expand to serve additional departments. Pilot program was not approved by compliance and leadership.

Program was created in 2016 and collateral material was developed for business recruitment, including recipe cards, forms and stickers. Community member volunteer hired was no longer able to continue with project, and there was little business interest. The Department of Health had very strict guidelines on what would be considered healthy. So we ended outreach for this project.

Originally Healthier Jupiter managed the volunteers in the program. In 2018 we dedicated staff and volunteer time for 9 events 6 hours each. In Year 2, we referred partner organizations and community members to volunteer. Program continues in the Jupiter community with partners and volunteers. Healthier Jupiter continues to share partners’ request for volunteers through our network. The program has seen significant changes in health. In 2018, there were 87 patients who lost weight and HbA1c decreased.

200 punch cards were given out in 2018. The farmers market located in El Sol’s parking lot is now under new ownership and name - J-Town Market. In previous conversations with El Sol’s Executive Director, the market was not at a point to accept SNAP/EBT. Need to revisit this ide and approaching partnership to promote fruit and vegetable purchasing. Are there other markets in town interested in a partnership like this, and are there other funders out there interested in sponsoring in this way?

Lizzie Lawson of Limestone Creek, Jupiter was the winner of the Healthier Jupiter Home Garden Contest. Ms. Lawson loves to work in her garden and shares her harvest with Family, Friends and Neighbors. Healthier Jupiter had an opportunity to visit her garden and see the bountiful plot first hand. Her green thumb shines through all that she produces. Congratulations Mother Lawson…

There was not a lot of community participation in the contest, so we decided to not hold the contest again. The winner was Mother Lawson from the Limestone Creek Community.

How + Why: In Healthier Jupiter’s early years, transportation access and safety were identified as critical issues for access to medical care. As we transitioned away from focusing on access to medical care, we recognized that walking and biking safety and built environment changes are important for promoting a culture of health. Walking and biking is a no cost way to be physically active, and can help treat, prevent, or manage chronic conditions and our community needs safe space to do so. We kicked off the work with a walkability/bikeability event with Mark Fenton, who identified long term improvements in the built environment to make Jupiter a more walkable and bike-able community. It took several years for a community group to come together on walking and biking safety. The group started meeting in September 2020 to plan a mobility awareness event - Walk and Bike on Jupiter Challenge. Projects include active transportation campaigns, bike rides, and walk audits.

Community Partners Involved: Walk and Bike on Jupiter Workgroup

Time Involved: 15 hours - Meeting and Preparation (3 hours), Outreach (5 hours), Communication (2 hours), Active Projects (5 hours)

Cost: Incentives $200 and staff time.

Evaluation: Committee Member Attendance and # of Events

Progress: 1 Mobility Week Campaign, 4 Walk Audits, Youth Walk Audit created, Mission statement created and provided input to Town of Jupiter Planning and Zoning’s Palm Tran Community Feedback

Results: More community members getting regular physical activity. Less pedestrian and bike crashes and fatalities.

Sustainability: Right now we are building relationships and engaging more stakeholders, including community members and partners. Need to identify more easy wins for policy, system, environment change work to get to the larger built environment changes for walking and biking safety. There was some concern with this work, and the potential for conflict with Town of Jupiter and equity focused language (mobility justice). This is a nontraditional way to address health disparities. What other organizations locally or at the county level are doing this work? There is an issue with access to affordable bikes. Our Walk and Bike Workgroup would also like to see more community members focused on micro mobility, walking/biking on town boards.

How + Why: Approached by a community leader that wanted to teach zumba to local community members. Worked closely with Town of Jupiter Parks and Recreation Department to get approval for neighborhood exercise programs, the only non-town programming approved by the town on a regular basis. Great success so we expanded to other physical activity types, including yoga and strength training (a mini-grant with El Sol). At community events, community members want to see more and a variety of free outdoor activities, especially ones that are family friend.

Community Partners Involved: El Sol, Nora Lara, Town of Jupiter Parks and Recreation, Jupiter Bloom Wellness and Busch Wildlife

Time (per year): Process Payments (1 hour), Communication (2 hours), Collecting Data (3 hours)

Cost: Zumba ($3,000), Yoga ($1,250) and Nature Walks ($2,500). On average a neighborhood exercise program costs around $3,000 to cover cost of trainer and supplies.

Evaluation: Attendance, Success stories

Progress: 3 funded programs, with varying degrees of attendance

Results: More regular physical activity for community members. Community members feel more connected to each other and the community.

Sustainability: In the future, Healthier Jupiter wants to work with partners to create a shared vision for Neighborhood Exercise Programs. We attempted to receive assistance from the National Parks Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance Program, but was unable to get all partner commitments. Expand to serve the Limestone Creek, and Kennedy Estates neighborhoods. What funders in the community would fund a project like this? Would gyms or trainers be interested in help to fundraise for these projects or create a Pay it Forward model. At a community event in the Limestone Creek Community, community members shared the exercise opportunities they would like to see include zumba, bootcamp, group walk, yoga and stroller strong moms group

Results of the Indiantown Road Corridor are here. Inspired by these walk audits, Healthier Jupiter created two youth guides with the Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida and a Food Scape Walk Audit with Urban Health Partnerships. Recently, we helped Town of Jupiter recruit community members for a Pine Gardens South Walk Audit, and did a night time walk audit in the Limestone Creek Community

How + Why: Inspired by projects with Mark Fenton and AmeriCorps VISTAs, walk audits are one of the best tools community members have to advocate for safer streets. Audits with Town of Jupiter and Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency staff allowed our group of community advocates to learn more about obstacles and vision for a healthy and safe community.

Community Partners Involved: Town of Jupiter Planning and Zoning, Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency, Walk and Bike on Jupiter Workgroup, Urban Health Partnerships and Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida

Time Commitment (per year): Depends on active projects - In person events (3 ours), Planning (2 hours), Development (5 hours), and Communication (2 hours)

Cost: Water, Snacks and Safety Gear $200

Evaluation Tools: Community members participating in walk audits and partnerships

Progress: Identified areas for improvement. Completed Audits (4) in Jupiter and 15 community members participated across 4 audits.

Results: Less pedestrian and bike crashes. Areas from walk audits are funded for improvements.

Sustainability: The Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency conducts walk audits with partners. Possible steps include: (1) walk audit (2) reports and identify/fund low hanging fruit (3) long term strategic changes. How to work with the Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency and their Vision Zero Advisory Committee to ensure that community members (possibly without their city or county support) can apply for Transportation Planning Agency funding.

The content is located online and often distributed to our partners through the newsletter and email.

How + Why: One of Healthier Jupiter’s first programmatic recommendation included developing a comprehensive list and mapping of Jupiter’s Healthy resources, including physical activity. We wanted to share with community members where they could exercise for free, or at low cost. During our Community Health Survey we also identified our community’s common barriers to physical activity. The top 3 barriers are motivation, cost, and time.

Community Partners Involved: Community Action Committee and previous Healthy Foods and Physical Activity Subcommittees

Cost: Website Costs

Time (per year): Content Creation (5 hours each blog), Update Annually (1 hour)

Evaluation: Squarespace Analytics

Progress: Views to date

Free Places to Be Physically Active in Jupiter (833 Views)

What’s in Your Walking Shed (55 views)

Walking and Biking Safely in Your Community (141 views)

How to Find Physical Activities You Enjoy (65 views)

Results: More regular physical activity for Jupiter community members

Sustainability: What partner would be interested in taking on updating the listing annually? Overcoming barriers to physical activity is a common education topic - may not need to continue, but it is shared often with FreshRx Food is Medicine program participants.

You can check out the challenge here: healthierjupiter.org/wbj-challenge

How + Why: This challenge was the first event for Healthier Jupiter’s new Walk and Bike on Jupiter workgroup. Goal was to see if there was enough interested parties to come together around this topic. By focusing on an organizing around the campaign, we could help start and build relationships to see built environment changes in the community.

Community Partners Involved: Walk and Bike on Jupiter Workgroup

Time (per month): In August it is 5 hours (meetings and planning). In September about 10 hours (planning and coordination). In October about 25 hours (implementation and engagement)

Cost: Incentives $100 and staff time

Evaluation: Registration forms, photos and post surveys

Progress: In Year 1, 25 participants registered and 10 submitted photos. 2 completed post survey. In Year 2, 15 registered and 8 submitted photos.

Results: More community members are physically active. Less pedestrian and bicycle crashes and fatalities.

Sustainability: Who are partners that are working on active transportation? Florida Department of Transportation and Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency promote this campaign but at a county and state level with some community level engagement. Campaign builds awareness for long term work and we could use this campaign to build additional safety campaigns. Need to include more businesses in the future.

Learn more about the Couch to 5K Training Program.

How + Why: Healthier Jupiter’s original Physical Activity Subcommittee had representation from Town of Jupiter Parks and Recreation staff. After Healthier Jupiter’s first year participating in the Town of Jupiter Turtle Trot 5K as a group, we wanted to prepare our team and those in the community to be able to walk or run a 5K. Jupiter Medical Center Wellness Center staff were approached to create the training program, and Healthier Jupiter coordinated a planning committee to assist with program implementation. The Committee focuses on enrollment, volunteers, incentives, marketing, and participant communication. This idea expanded on one of Healthier Jupiter’s first programmatic strategies - a Neighborhood 5K Training Program. The original idea was to develop a Train the Trainers Program to hold training programs for trainers and empower them to build teams in their neighborhoods.

Community Partners Involved: The Jupiter Medical Center Wellness Center Team Members volunteer their time as trainers. Town of Jupiter supports us in preparation for the Town of Jupiter Turtle Trot. Couch to 5K Committee.

Time Commitment (per year): 7 hours per week for 9 weeks during trainings- Trainings (2 hours), Preparation for Trainings (2 hours), Newsletter (1 hour). Pre-trainings usually take up about 13 hours per month from November to February. Develop Materials (4 hours), Planning and Outreach (9 hours)

Cost: Incentives (T-Shirts) - $1,500 and supplies/printing $100

Evaluation Tools: Program Participation, Excel Tracking Sheet, and Post Survey

Progress: In Year 2019, 214 participants registered and on average 74 participated in meet ups. COVID-19 cut off our 3rd and 4th year (virtual). This Year (2022) 110 participants registered and on average 55 participated in meet ups.

Results: Increased opportunities for physical activity.

Sustainability: Volunteer student created a Couch to 5K Toolkit for their capstone project. Need to finalize the Couch to 5K Toolkit. Wellness Center staff are interested in taking this work on. What could an outreach strategy for others to conduct their own Couch to 5 K Training Program.

Explore activity at night concerns, including lighting at parks, sidewalks and neighborhoods. We added on TPA lead walk Audits with three night-time walk audits: first on the Indiantown Road Corridor, second in the Limestone Creek Community, and third in Pine Gardens South. This issue was raised during our Walking and Biking Workgroup as an issue our group would like to take on with special campaigns to raise awareness, and incentive items (safety lighting). Additional partners would need to be engaged on these projects, including Florida Power & Light, Town of Jupiter, and Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency. Is there additional data that we need to collect?

Exercise is Medicine® (EIM), a global health initiative managed by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), is to make physical activity assessment and promotion a standard in clinical care, connecting health care with evidence-based physical activity resources for people everywhere and of all abilities. Currently, we have shared Exercise is Medicine one-pagers with the FreshRx Participants. Locally we would need to explore the possibility of integration of the Exercise is Medicine concept at clinics, hospitals, and community partners. What exercise partners would be interested in getting involved - wellness centers, gyms, personal trainers, etc. Would need to set up meetings to explore local partners interest in this concept.

This idea stemmed from a few of our Mini-Grant applicants and awardees that focus on healthy eating and active living projects for the autism community. They were interested in coming together and network to promote more physical activity amongst the autism community. Additionally, we had a few Mini-Grant applicants apply for water based programming, but we recognized the need to help more community members learn how to swim. The idea is to establish communities of practice focused on equity in different physical activity spaces, such as yoga, swimming, surf, bike, local youth and adult sports, and walking/running. This could be a good starting point to include gyms, personal trainers, etc.

Specific projects could include applying for Safe Routes to School local/state funding and creating a school based committee, or partnering for Walk or Bike to School Day events throughout Town of Jupiter. Healthier Jupiter’s Project Director has been staying educated on trends and best practices in Safe Routes programming, including schools and parks. We worked with a undergraduate student to research and suggest recommendations on Safe Routes to School and Safe Routes to Park implementation. Need to develop stronger relationships with local elementary, middle and high schools staff, including principals, crossing guards, and gym teachers. Other important partners could include Town of Jupiter, Police Department, and Safe Kids PBC.

Projects that were brainstormed include: Share the Road campaign, Bicycle Friendly Business, Bike 101 classes, Bike Rack Citizen Science Project, Walk/Bike Friendly City Designation, Bike Rodeos, Community Engagement Projects, National Day of Remembrance and Bike Fix It Station Demonstration Videos.

In order to implement new projects, we need to engage additional community partners such as Town of Jupiter, Town of Jupiter Police Department, neighborhood organizations, bike shops, etc.

A University of Miami Public Health student led this one-time study with the help of Healthier Jupiter staff and 5 volunteers (total of 57 hours) to collect data at parks. The full report has been published on the website and can be found here. Healthier Jupiter did use the results of the report, and the fact that programming helps to increase park usage, to apply for an AARP Community Change Grant to bring more fitness classes to local parks. We did not receive funding. The data sits in the report, but we played around with the idea of developing a map to share suggested recommendations, and show park access in our community. This could be used as a guide to align more closely with the 10 Minute Walk to a Park Initiative: www.tpl.org/10minutewalk

Over 50 bike riders participated at the first Bike Valet in partnership with the Town of Jupiter and Boy Scout Troop 774. Information on how to run a Bike Valet has been provided to 2 additional organizations. Healthier Jupiter created an outline for implementing a Bike Valet but did not work with our graphic designer to turn it into a toolkit. The idea was to also allow partners to borrow the materials from Healthier Jupiter to have a Bike Valet at their event, potentially using tip fund as a fundraiser. This would be a great way to promote healthy living at local events. Similar to other toolkits, could we partner with a business to develop the guide and share with community partners.

The Walking Group Toolkit was created as part of the Walk on Jupiter Challenge, which was planned to be launched in Winter 2018. This was intended as a physical fitness challenge to encourage everyone in our community to walk by creating walking groups and collectively achieve the distance it would take to land on the planet Jupiter. This evolved into promoting a walking group in every neighborhood. The marketing plan was never fully developed for this program, and when lost AmeriCorps VISTA / Part-Time Coordinator it was hard to keep up outreach.

Sustainability Ideas: Could we align with business partners to underwrite the cost of printing for space on the guides. How can Mini-Grant awardees better use the toolkits? If Healthier Jupiter goes away, who would distribute the toolkits or keep on their website? All toolkits need to be translated into Spanish. How can this be distributed to medical professionals?

Healthier Jupiter previously organized teams and meetings with good success and engagement. We also used to partially fund a healthy meal and bathrooms at an Edna Runner Let’s Move Event. Recent years stepped back from coordination and encouraged individual organizations to participate in the campaign, and get individuals to join our team. It is easy to continue to promote this campaign through our newsletter. Tried with a relative degree of success to piggy-back off Let’s Move Month to promote our active living work, including walk audits (0 participants) and bike month bike rides (8 participants).

This was identified and implemented in 2015 and 2016 as a wat to create a comprehensive directory and map of Jupiter’s health resources, including free and low cost opportunities. After printing, we distributed the Get Fit Maps at all opportunities. Additionally, we created a large print out to take with us to community events. We sought feedback on the map, and what is missing from community partners in 2020 and 2021. The idea was to update the map with new parks and safety tips for walkers and bikers from Town of Jupiter Police Department. Town of Jupiter already has their own branded maps with parks, and natural areas. Our Community Action Committee discussed internally the best route to take and wanted to explore if we could align with business partners to underwrite the cost of printing for space on the guides. How can Mini-Grant awardees or food distribution partners better use the Get Fit Map? If Healthier Jupiter goes away, who would distribute the toolkits or keep on their website? How can this be distributed to medical professionals?

Planning, outreach, and implementation for a Walk & Talk usually took 10 hours per event. Specific tasks included securing and communicating with speaker, preparing flyers, outreach, and day of event. The average number of participants was 15 with many repeat participants. The first Walk & Talk happened in Abacoa Greenways in March 2016. Other Walk & Talk speakers/special locations included: Chef Barbara, Dr Ken Grey, Dubois Park, Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Lighthouse Tour, Limestone Creek, Chef Greg from Jupiter Middle School Culinary Program, Jupiter’s Outstanding Natural Area, Riverbend, Rock Painting, Scripps, Tai Chi, and the River Walk.

Time and effort versus participation was too much. Additionally, we realized that our Walk & Talks were successful at getting a group of greater Jupiter residents active and social, it was not reaching one of our target populations, the Hispanic Community.

Explored the idea of transitioning to a grant format where award a community organization to conduct the walk and talks. We piloted this with one year of funding to Busch Wildlife Sanctuary’s for their Happy Trails Program, which were guided nature + wildlife walks in Palm Beach County Environmental Resource Management Natural Areas. Additionally, the Palm Beach County Environmental Resource Management does a lot of programming in natural areas.

In 2017, 30 scholarships have been provided for Recreation Soccer with 50 more scholarships available for other JTAA sports. It was discussed with JTAA where they are seeking additional funds to support scholarships for youth, and the Executive Director mentioned that they had a tough time securing funding from other community partners for scholarships. Additionally, we had conversations with JTAA’s Executive Director about exploring additional adult leagues for the Hispanic community, open field access and the possibility of shared use agreements at local schools. However, none of those projects moved forward.

You can find more details at: healthierjupiter.org/mental-fitness

How + Why: El Sol staff recognized there were a lot of community members talking about mental health issues and that our community could benefit from a mental health awareness campaign. Healthier Jupiter’s network and support was recognized as a good backbone to bring people together, build consensus, and coordinate the campaign. Partners came together to identify current issues around mental health and brainstormed what the design of a local campaign. This is the first effort Healthier Jupiter has coordinated around mental health. Our community is interested in gathering around this topic more. Annually the plan is the meet in early March to plan for May, which Mental Health and Trauma Informed Care Month.

Community Partners Involved: A Jupiter Mental Health Campaign Planning Committee has been established and a listing of community partners can be found here.

Time Commitment: Meetings (1 hour per week for 2 months), Campaign Materials + Updates (2-5 hours), Outreach + Social Media Posting (3 hours per day during Jupiter Mental Fitness Week)

Cost: Staff time, graphic design support donated, social media ads ($20-50)

Evaluation Tools: Social Media Analytics

Progress: 20+ partners planning the campaign. In 2021 the campaign reached 92,000 on social media with 1805 interactions and 174 mentions.

Results: Reduce mental health stigma in the community and encourage people to engage mentally and physically in healthy behaviors

Sustainability: All materials are created, just need to be updated yearly with dates and business partners. Is there another lead agency that wants to take this on for Jupiter? Would the planning committee continue to meet without Healthier Jupiter leading? Beyond the campaign is there another role that Healthier Jupiter should play in the behavioral health space?

How + Why: Community outreach and events are important to ensure feedback loops of hearing from community about programs and projects they want to see around healthy eating and active living. Information gets funneled up to our workgroups and partners. Recently, with only one full time staff member, only took on events important to our community and partners, focusing on reaching new populations in Jupiter.

Community Partners Involved: Many events we have attended in the past are organized by Jupiter Medical Center, Town of Jupiter, El Sol, and Limestone Creek.

Time (per event): Preparation (3 hours), Event (4 to 6 hours) about 2 events per month (depending on time of year)

Cost: Supplies, Fruit Giveaways, Printing usually around $50-200 per event

Evaluation: Distribution of flyers, Sign Ups, Engagements

Progress: 10 events per year, 1,400 newsletter sign ups

Results: Engage and collaborate with community members and increase awareness of Healthier Jupiter

Sustainability: Could have set up a stronger volunteer program for outreach. Healthier Jupiter has pulled back from sponsoring many events.

How and Why: Student research innovative topics in healthy eating and active living has helped to provide context for future projects that Project Director may not have time to research fully. Important to connect student projects with larger things happening in the community. To find out more information about each student project see the list below:

• Jupiter Middle School Culinary Students Rescue 300 Pounds of Food

• Andrew Stine Rowe - Increasing Park Engagement for Diabetes Prevention and Management

• Paula Baniotaite - HEAL Series

• Barbara Wisinski - Healthy Food Options Audit

• Joe Correa - Healthier Jupiter’s Collection of Data Around Walking & Biking

• Sean Goodwin - Cost Incentives for Healthy Foods

• Tessa McKay - started the outline for the SMART Guide and started toolkits on Workplace Wellness and Couch to 5K

• Amy Krigsman - Volunteer Program Case Study. Amy had also assisted in food and health work, and Healthier Jupiter’s strategic plan.

• Sophia Nemes - Student Voice Reporter

• Derek Tingle - Promoting Safe Routes Programming in Jupiter

Community Partners Involved: Local universities and middle schools

Time Commitment (per student): 7 hours - Planning (3 hours), Meetings (1 hour ever other week), Review (2 hours), Updating website (1 hour)

Cost: Staff Time, no interns were paid

Evaluation Tools: none created

Progress: 10 students

Results: Engage more students in Healthier Jupiter

Sustainability: Need to do a better job to take on projects that require minimal staff involvement. How can we have a better relationship with local high school and middle school medical programs?

How + Why: Healthier Jupiter has built our following of community members and community partners that seek out healthy eating and active living resources and share resources with us. We utilize our various channels to communicate resources (in order of most used): Facebook, Blog, Newsletter, and Instagram.

Community Partners Involved: All are welcome to submit no cost, low cost resources.

Time (per month): Research events and resources (5 hours) and Content Creation (3 hours)

Cost: Website costs

Evaluation Tools: Communication Channel’s Analytics

Progress: Average post like 6, 1400 newsletter followers, 1110 Instagram followers, 1200 Facebook followers

Results: Promote opportunities for healthy eating and active living

Sustainability: When Healthier Jupiter had multiple staff members, posting regularly was easier. It was proposed in the past to find an intern or hire someone to run our social media.

How + Why: These toolkits and resource guides are intended for community members and community partners to utilize to promote different healthy eating and active living resources. Serves as a one-stop-shop for the best articles specifically related to healthy foods, physical fitness, access to medical care and knowing your risks of diabetes. Currently, we only have the resource online and in English. Originally, this resource guide was called the Getting Started Guide to be handed out by doctor’s offices. A student’s capstone stone project organized community feedback and created a 12 page guide.

Community Partners Involved: We partnered with FAU Medical School students as a service project to identify the best resources. And was organized by a graduate student, Tessa McKay, as part of a capstone project. Community Action Committee.

Time Involved (one time): 20 hour project (Research, Planning, Design, Marketing)

Cost: Graphic Design support ($1,000), Printing ($2600 for 10,000 guides)

Evaluation Tools: Squarespace Analytics

Progress: 250 Views

Results: Ensure opportunities for healthy eating and active living

Sustainability: Could we align with business partners to underwrite the cost of printing for space on the guides. How can Mini-Grant awardees better use the toolkits? If Healthier Jupiter goes away, who would distribute the toolkits or keep on their website? All toolkits need to be translated into Spanish. How can this be distributed to medical professionals?

Steering Committee members mentioned this as a potential project when reviewing our Theory of Change. Potential support could include collaborative meetings, network building and/or grant support. What partners have an interest in seeing a project like this through?

Project Director has collected some great ideas and content, but has not put it together in a concise document or guide. This idea came from the Project Director’s Performance Challenge coach, who recommended a “white paper” to organize ideas for a healthy eating or active living policy, system and environment change. Once the document was created it could live on with partners, but how do we know if partners are interested in making or implementing changes.

We first learned of this initiative, or way of working, from Pinella’s County. Our Community Action Committee thought that looking for ways to align, integrate or embed Healthier Jupiter’s work into the Town of Jupiter government would be great for sustainability of Healthier Jupiter and lasting impact in the community. This was echoed by our Walking and Biking Workgroup, and Food and Health discussions.

More information is shared from the CDC.

We have identified leaders for Policy System and Environment change work, including Urban Health Partnerships and American Heart Association. Urban Health Partnerships has done Policy System and Environment Change trainings around healthy food access. As part of a Food Health initiative, we worked with community members to do some minimal education on policy, system and environment change. An important first step is to work with healthy eating AND active living community partners to see if they are interested and ready for the training.

Almost all staff (past and present) have been through the Racial Equity Institute Training through opportunities from Palm Health Foundation. Healthier Jupiter funded about 20 community members to participate in a virtual groundwater presentation in 2020. Additionally, when we asked community members in 2020 how we should prioritize our budget for the next year, community members top vote was racial equity trainings. We started some additional racial equity work through participation in the Food Solutions New England 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge. Healthier Jupiter had funding to provide 1 training, however, committee members were interested in a partner would share the cost. What other organizations can our Jupiter community members work with to attend a Racial Equity Institute Training. Our community was also interested in learning about the Latino Challenge.

We have identified several partners and stakeholder groups that we would like to build strong relationships. Those include (in no particular order):

• Town of Jupiter Council

• Town of Jupiter Police Department

• Palm Beach County Government & Community Services

• Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department

• Palm Beach County Fire Rescue

• Senior serving organizations

• Domestic abuse partners

• Sexual abuse partners

• Substance abuse partner

• School District of PBC, including local elementary schools, middle schools and high schools

• Kennedy Estates Community

• Jupiter Farms Community

• Palm Beach County Parks & Recreation

• Town of Jupiter Parks & Recreation

• Partners involved in mental and behavioral health

• Organizations focused on environment + sustainability

Originally multiple Community Meetings throughout the year were a requirement of Palm Health Foundation and were the most important mechanism for our feedback loop. However, as years went on they no longer made them a requirement. Community meetings were successful to share information about Healthier Jupiter to a large gathering of people. We realized that mostly nonprofit partners were attending the meetings, and we needed to get out more in the community. We view outreach events and health fairs as an important way to check in with community, as well as distribute resources. Community outreach is an important way to ensure feedback loops of hearing from community about programs and projects they want to see around healthy eating and active living. Information from community events would get funneled up to our workgroup and partners.

In our third year, we began to intertwine Community Meetings with our Mini-Grant process.

This project was led by a Steering Committee Member. A total of 162 surveys were collected. A student volunteer created a report, and related blog posts, to summarize and communicate results. Results and recommendations were posted on our blog.

One of the pediatrician partners, Dr. Ivy Faske was going to obtain feedback from the physicians she helped recruit on the value of the survey.

You can view the videos on our youtube channel.

A lot of outreach went into the Student Film contest with very few submissions. A total of 20 hours per year for 2 submissions in 2018 and 3 submissions in 2017. There were recommendations to switch outreach to the summer instead of school year.

A strong effort was put around this in order to raise students’ awareness of Healthier Jupiter. From the Student Film Contest, one of the student winners became our Student Voice Reporter. You can view posts on our blog.

On average there were 50 page views per month. When there was only one full time staff member, this upkeep became time consuming. The calendar was replaced with constant sharing on website, targeted blog posts, and communication through email to targeted partners and in our newsletter.

Community Health Survey results can be found here: healthierjupiter.org/impact

In total we spent 50 hours per year on this project, including preparing (3 hours), distributing (25 hours), analyzing (13 hours), and reporting data (4 hours).

We had great volunteer support on this project, and many community partners worked with us to distribute the survey to their participants.

The community health survey was intended to establish baseline data for Healthier Jupiter. Initially Palm Health Foundation was very interested in baseline data and tracking health improvements. This survey wasn’t the best tool to capture this, and Palm Health Foundation was more interested in community learning and storytelling.

Rather than doing this survey yearly, we utilized “dip” years to ask community members pointed questions during outreach events to continuously check in on needs and progress. Additionally, one additional data point we wanted to collect is impact data from partners. The goal was to ask partners to estimate how many people they serve knowing that partners work with specific people while Healthier Jupiter focuses on convening and policy.

At one time there was a goal to relate this project to Jupiter Medical Center’s Community Health Needs Assessment.

We shared some of our questions with community partners, including FreshRx so we could track community healthy eating and active living barriers.

Two other Healthier Together communities already successfully implemented Sensemaker, so Healthier Jupiter’s Project Director and Palm Health Foundation staff attempted to implement.

The tool’s was supposed to help show the value of some of Healthier Jupiter’s programs, as well as identify areas of action from an individual and community level.

Community Action Committee and Steering Committee tested the tool. There would have had to be significant investment in time for outreach and how to utilize the tool, and possibly a lead partner organization. And we did not move forward.

Rather, Healthier Jupiter partnered with additional sensemaker projects including Mini-Grants, COVID and Culture of Health network.

The Diabetes Coalition of Palm Beach County with the help of county wide partners, including local partners like Jupiter Medical Center’s Diabetes Education Program, continue to do assessments and collect data to increase diabetes awareness and improved health outcomes for thos living with diabetes.

An additional proposed activity was to create a Pre-Diabetes Toolkit for physicians and community members to help reach their medical care goal. Additionally, the toolkit would have sought to increase awareness of personal risks for diabetes and identify health resources, services and gaps. This project transitioned to other toolkits and guides, such as the SMART Guide.

Marketing tools were created for these volunteers, including Elevator Speech and Frequently Asked Questions. Volunteer champions transitioned to working more closely on Healthier Jupiter’s various committees.

This was identified as a project to take on as early as March 2016. There was not momentum around this project until a student volunteer identified it as her capstone project. The student developed a toolkit in word, but it never went to our graphic designer to brand for Healthier Jupiter. Jupiter Medical Center did have staff at the time that focused on workplace and corporate wellness Other organizations are taking on Workplace Wellness mostly from a mental health lens, including BeWellPBC and Center for Child Counseling through their Healing the Healers Program.

How + Why: Healthier Jupiter in the beginning was struggling to decide how best to spend our funds, so rather than utilize the funds for our own efforts we decided to invest in the grassroots organizations to fund pilot ideas around healthy eating, active living , access to care, and most recently, mental health. Over the last 5 years, we have continued with the Mini-Grants because of the high resident engagement, focus on collaboration, and building the capacity of grassroots organizations.

Community Partners Involved: Steering Committee, Grants Review Committee and Community Action Committee, Network of 200+ community partners

Time (per year): Planning (30 hours) Promotion (25 hours), Event (8 hours), Follow up (10 hours), Content + Impact Creation (5 hours)

Cost: Event Cost ($7,500), 8 Mini-Grants at $2,500 each ($20,000)

Evaluation Tools: Post event evaluations, Wrap Up Reports

Progress: 200-400 people attended the Grants BBQ, 10 grants awarded in 2017, 8 awarded in 2018, 9 awarded in 2019 and 10 awarded in 2020

Results: Traditional and nontraditional community partners implementing healthy living programs. We hope to see sustainable programs in the community that have received additional funding

Sustainability: How can we continue to build the capacity of mini-grant awardees? Are other larger funders considering mini-grant programs or funding grassroots organizations? How can we provide our mini-grant network with tools, resources, and connections for healthy eating, active living, and mental health.